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Thought without Language

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

David Hume's 'Miraculous' Philosophy

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

Business Ethics and Moral Issue

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

Philosophy of Socrates

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

Rene Descartes and David Hume on Knowledge

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

Symposium of Plato and the Concept of Objectified Love

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...

Abortion and Morality

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

First Person Narrative of a 'Bad' Day

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...

Marx and Weber and the Origins of Capitalism

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

An Exploration of Consciousness

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

Rome & Greece: Good, Dutiful Citizens Versus Athletic Ability, Philosophical Issues And Physical Beauty

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

Chemical And Biological Weapons: Dangers Posed To Human Existence

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

Bertrand Russell: The Value Of Philosophy

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

Descartes and "The Matrix"

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

Dante’s Inferno & Humanism

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

Seltzer's Serial Killers

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

Choosing a Philosopher

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

Love According to Soren Kierkegaard’s Works of Love

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

Hume's Ideas about the Distinct and Continued Existence of Objects

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...

Banned Books In California: K-12

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

Examining Debates Among Competing Philosophies

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

Socrates' Influence

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

Rene Descartes and Dualism

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

Women's Rights in On Liberty and The Subjection of Women by J.S. Mill

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

Complexities of Self Philosophy, Language, and Consciousness

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

Sun Tzu's The Art of War Analyzed

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...

Aquinas by F.C. Copleston

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

Justice, Politics, and Knowledge According to Hobbes and Plato

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

The Argument from Queerness by John L. Mackie

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

The Ethics of Belief by W.K. Clifford

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