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Essays 91 - 120
to be held in such high esteem as to the exclusion of all other government. Yet, Hobbes did not have much faith in people and tho...
to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...
circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...
only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...
that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...
that standard then the entire concept of innate knowledge cannot possibly be true. He further argues that those who say...
or that their lives are even close to resembling those of the first disciples?" (as qtd. in Galli, 2002, p.62). He poses a good qu...
that people do have a duty to God, which is coupled with a duty to obey their ruler (Honderich, 1995). At the same time, Locke say...
the only species that truly does not understand the depth and intensity that animals possess in their special consciousness. When...
deep down, but on the surface they are essentially chained and shackled. They are in the dark about a lot of things because they c...
traditional theory of the social contract" (Rawls 514). According to Rawls, there should be a "veil of ignorance" in regards to ...
design engineers did not intend for the Pinto to be dangerous in rear-end collisions, so the Kantian perspective essentially would...
deaths resulting from the Pintos faulty design because no one at Ford could know the future. Certainly design engineers did not i...
experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...
Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...
academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...
quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...
Of all the claims that lack evidence, none are as morally immense or elusive as whether or not God exists. Supporters contend the...
why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...
is aligned with the fact that people are alone all of the time because no one can experience what they are experiencing exactly. I...
Christianity was based upon a vast compilation of both positive and negative influences acquired from the short-sightedness of pow...
children simply adopt and internalize the standards they are taught by their parents but Kohlberg found that children make moral j...
actually been a supporter of revolution in the American colonies. Burke certainly believed in individual rights, but he stressed t...
an ends justify the means ideology. To Machiavelli, justice has to do with an end. One can take Machiavellis concept a bit furthe...
guidance that gives meaning for man. Rather, as he explains, mans actions and intellectual activity seem to provide meaning. This ...
Nozicks Theory of Justice presents a strong argument for the libertarian view. This view honors property rights, that is, that in...
In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...
of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...
namely that similarities between myths count the most, that myth must be interpreted nonliterally and that religions, for the most...
can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...