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Essays 271 - 300
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives, which help maintain order and a sense of direction that otherwise woul...
guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...
Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...
to explore the views of human nature of Plato and other thinkers, as well as how these views were expressed in governmental form. ...
"endowed with special grace or powers" (Christian, 2008). It is easy to understand how such claims are perpetuated and reinforced:...
as a bridge so that people with different understandings can nevertheless come to understand and appreciate one anothers views. ...
points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...
philosophical movement that appeared in Great Britain and suggested that all knowledge is experiential ("British," 2004). In other...
solution. Rousseau was an individual who attempted to incorporate civil religion as that solution. One author tells us that "Rouss...
In a paper of nine pages, the writer looks at the topic of same-sex marriage. Frameworks such as religion, politics, and ethical p...
in the Peloponnesian War, which ended in a resounding defeat for Athens in 404 B.C. (Levinson ix-x). While it can be assumed that...
In seven pages differences that exist between Eastern and Western philosophies are considered with references made to Zen and the ...
In sixteen pages this paper analyzes privacy from the perspective of philosophy. Twenty four sources are cited in the bibliograph...
the soul. In understanding the influence the pre-Socratics had, it is beneficial to consider some of the major questions and the ...
said that one can easily recognize in an educated mind the ability to entertain a thought without accepting it; Aristotle taught t...
In nineteen pages this paper discusses the philosophical education of teenager Sophie Amundsen in Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder'...
In contrast to the views of genic selectionists, then, developmental systems theory has been proposed as a way of incororating and...
student who is writing about this topic should consider the ways in which the each author develops the philosophical journey of ea...
the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...
eye can see as opposed to mere speculation about what might be. Of course, objections would be other theories that for example God...
In five pages the pros and cons of drug legalization are assessed from a philosophical perspective. Four sources are cited in the...
the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...
when they heard the ringing of the bells, for they would associate this with being fed. In Brave New World, behaviorism takes the...
taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...
cosmological argument. As mentioned above, an ontological approach uses a deductive argument which "claims that its premises can b...