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In four pages this report considers Plato and Thomas Hobbes in a philosophical discussion of the connection between society and th...

must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...

In eight pages classical and modern philosophers are consulted regarding their thoughts on the postmodern world in order to determ...

defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...

In three pages this paper discusses China's post Confucianism cultural and philosophical transitions within the context of this bo...

what is real and what is perceived, and the one is not dependent on the other. Naturalism states that it is the laws of nature whi...

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

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

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...

In five pages this paper contrasts the philosophical perspectives of David Hume and Thomas Aquinas regarding religion and ultimate...

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

mean "The Way and its Power" (Rasmussen, 2002). The philosophy which would result did so in direct response to a number of social...

(Spinks, 2003). Spinks (2003) writes: "Nietzsches immoral philosophy seeks to overcome the reactive morality of good and evil impo...

in their fathers footsteps. Like Jesus, John began preaching at the age of 30 (Catholic Online, 2007). His location was the banks...

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...

This 4 page paper gives an overview of indentured servants in colonial Virginia. This paper includes comparisons of typical life o...

a fictitious narrative (Marenbon 40). His texts successfully incorporated quantitative and qualitative perspectives (Nasr and Raz...

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

the United States. The book begins around the time he was elected as President, which took place at the end of the 18th century. I...

This is a high-level view, and one that works only in retrospect. As example, it is difficult to accurately proclaim when the nat...

of England (The American Revolution, 2007). Before the American Revolution he lived in America and was there when legal acts wer...

18). Harrison (2006) credits Aquinas as being the "major figure" in the reintroduction of Aristotelian concepts into Western cul...

had no particular skills (Price). Price notes that Wingfield arrived in Virginia accompanied by a number of servants and a haughty...

there, but the Kingdom of the Father is spread out on the earth and men do not see it." A short parable occurs early in Thomass ...

associates in Europe" he would refer "to blacks as lazy, slow, unable to reason, lacking in imagination and even spoke against the...

for an individual to have done something of importance in their life. It is not always important that they be recognized. It see...

well into adulthood. However, Lorber points out, "Individual actions construct social institutions and therefore... changes in in...

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...