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and Cavaliers differ somewhat from those that are associated with Europe. What we most often remember in America is the differenc...
exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives, which help maintain order and a sense of direction that otherwise woul...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
obviously see elements of the man who wrote the story, for Kafka is often considered to be an individual who deeply examined his w...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...
exactly? Wikipedia defines it as follows: " Extortion is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person obtains money, behaviour, ...
steeled and a heart trans- formed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility" (Nietzsche, p.129). One can see tha...
human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...
commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...
to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...
the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...
the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...
is anguish all the time, but there is also a sense of joy at the realization that one is inextricably bound with another. This sen...
himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...
are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...
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...
(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
cosmological argument. As mentioned above, an ontological approach uses a deductive argument which "claims that its premises can b...
knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...
philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...
culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...
the role it plays, in the cognitive system of which it is a part (Levin, 2004). Functionalism is an opinion about the nature of m...
She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...
by the theory of monism (Turner). The greatest strength of monism appears to be its simplicity: it admits of only one underlying c...