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to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

reason" (Schlumpf 59). In modern society, there are enormous pressures that tempt business people to take shortcuts in order to ...

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...

if the Weber model is correct. Kilcullen points out that Weber "was perhaps the first great master of the major institutional fac...

It is not the awareness, however, which overrides the ignorance, it is the cognition (Mohanty, 2001). Knowledge in this regard ca...

fully clothed to completely nude was a symbol in and of itself: Aphrodite had begun a journey exemplifying female physical beauty,...

in 1984 with the implementation of its first agent. "Irans motives for seeking nuclear weapons stem from its rivalry with Iraq, f...

third wife and third child come a year apart between 1936 and 1937, while his next publication - A History of Western Philosophy -...

essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...

must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...

that society, or the perpetrators parents, should not be blamed for any horrific acts. The offender is the only one that someone s...

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

It is the spiritual and unconditional love for another person. The self, in essence, must be entirely removed from the equation. ...

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

attempt to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around ...

We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...

consider that if an entity, such as a nation, is to grow and become prosperous there will be enemies and as such perhaps war is es...

education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relati...

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...