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Essays 151 - 180
In five pages this report examines whether or not the world would be a better place if people followed Socrates' philosophical exa...
universe as heartily to assent to the evil that seems inherent in its details?" (Thought & Character, Volume I, Perry, 322) (Shull...
In eight pages justice and fairness as conceptualized by philosopher and theorist John Rawls are examined with the emphasis being ...
This paper examines the writings and life of Wollstonecraft. The author discusses her philosophical treatise, A Vindication of th...
In four pages this paper examines how Plato and Socrates were philosophically viewed by Nietzsche. Two sources are cited in the b...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the perspectives of these ancient Chinese philosophers on ethical behavior. Six so...
Differences in points of view in ancient times are carefully explained and examined. Examples are provided. This five page paper...
In fifteen pages Pythagoras' life and his contributions to science, mathematics, and philosophy are discussed. There are 6 source...
This text is analyzed in a paper consisting of five pages which considers how in economics capitalism prevailed over communism. T...
someone unfamiliar with the field of economics. The works which are introduced range from the earliest economic thought found in...
In eight pages Jean Jacques Rousseau's life and times are examined. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....
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...
for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...
a desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...
Hence, it is not unexpected that philosophers throughout the ages have also had different thoughts on freedom. While many people,...
of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...
with the absolute. Nagarjuna disagreed with this sense of absolutism. Nagarjuna philosophy can also be distinguished from mainst...
considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...
this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...
philosophers and artists, and included figures such as Rousseau, Goethe, Hegel and Kant. One of the major elements of Romanticism ...
it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...
know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...
discoveries of this philosopher? Has this person made a significant contribution that has led to the discovery or founding of some...
was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...
one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...
as a problem (Frost, 1962). However, later philosophers, as they pondered the nature of the universe, began to see the fact of cha...