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Essays 481 - 510
It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...
challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...
our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...
contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...
Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...
human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...
traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...
even passive bigotry totally unacceptable to anyone who isnt a kind of a professed Neanderthal. Its changed the sexual culture com...
develops his inquiry into the contention to see if it holds up to scrutiny: SOCRATES: And when a jury is rightly convinced of fact...
who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...
course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...
normal children do. However, these tasks that ordinary children dont think twice about, offer sincere and daunting challenges to t...
horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...
here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...
of knowledge through experience, and so is the basis for synthetic statements that are linked to a postiori knowledge. Kant used ...
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 this paper considers philosophies of James Mills and Immanuel Kant in a discussion of how philosophy can develop iss...
In nineteen pages this paper discusses the philosophical education of teenager Sophie Amundsen in Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder'...
said that one can easily recognize in an educated mind the ability to entertain a thought without accepting it; Aristotle taught t...
In five pages this report examines the qualities of being human in terms of being and becoming in the individual and incorporates ...
In three pages this paper discusses corporate culture manifestations and the perspectives of Edgar Schein's fragmentation, differe...
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 six pages this paper discusses causation and knowledge in a consideration of the differences between the philosophies of David ...
This is a 5 page paper that considers two different cinematic filmmaking approaches to specific battles, one from a Third World pe...
Drawing from the ethical theories of Mill and Kant, this paper examines the tragedy caused by Firestone and Ford placing defective...
In eight pages this paper examines Malcolm X in a consideration of his philosophical principles. Three sources are cited in the b...
themselves against mans authority. It is important for the student to consider the fact that while one might understand the motiv...
In five pages this paper examines The Matrix and Blade Runner films in a discussion of how the philosophical concepts of Berkeley ...
In five pages this paper examines the 'Argument from Design' argument from both sides as considered by David Hume in Dialogues Con...