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Henry Sidgwick's Theories and Arguments

to that of Egoism which is based on the premise that mans concern with his own good is the basis of mans morality. Sidgwick in his...

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

Proof of God's Existence in the Meditations of Rene Descartes

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

Capitalism The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand

1986). Rands "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" (1986) was first published in 1962 and exemplified many of her philosophies of...

John Locke and Liberalism

Within a short time however, Locke was relieved of his public duties, and left England due to the ill effects of the climate on hi...

Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

the natural world. Nature, he asserts, is secretive, but at the same time it is human beings who will eventually be able to unlock...

Race Concept and its History

that their individual styles of approach are based in part upon significantly different gender perspectives. Like Merchant (1989)...

Understanding What it Means to be a Social Justice Educator

individual who naturally believes in true equality and empowerment across the entire population. The reasons it becomes so confusi...

Free Market, Private Property, and Freedom of the Press

paper is to explore that complex relationship as it falls under the liberal philosophy, that great tradition epitomized by such ph...

Transcendental Unity

This research paper examines Kant's philosophy of transcendental deduction, with a specific focus on the transcendental unity of a...

Liberal Democratic and Radical Political Schools of Thought Compared

of his better known works "The Social Contract", he discusses issues involved in radical or republican thought regarding the human...

Philosophy of Idealism

the mind" then "no physical thing exists outside the mind" (McGreal 252). Third, primary qualities such as solidity, extension, sh...

Metaphysics As a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch

looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...

Nature Concept

and the construction company wants to get on with their job of building whatever. Henry David Thoreau, in Walden Pond, written i...

Theories of Henrik Ibsen and Soren Kierkegaard

This paper examines concepts of paradox and passion, women's social position, and individual autonomy in the philosophy of Soren K...

Concept of the Divine Right Of Kings

to Grotius more humane perspective was that of Jacques-Benigne Bossuets, who "reinforced medieval notions of kingship in his theor...

Lev Vygotsky's Educational Theories

of achieving either on his own, with the aid of a teacher, or with the help of another more accomplished peer.(Zone, 2002). The st...

Divine Justice and Fate Reflected in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and Inferno by Dante Alighieri

poem makes it clear that the human soul can only enjoy a happy eternity by pledging complete faith and allegiance in God, Boccacci...

Duty, Morality, and Immanuel Kant

critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is nothing more than a veiled continuation of social domination. Distin...

'Lying Promise' and Philosophy

lying promise is something that is said in order to achieve a favorable outcome. What if someone has a gun to the victims childs h...

Alienation in The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Without the pressures of the capitalist system, Marx was of the opinion that work could make a valuable contribution to the labour...

'Will to Power' and the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

identifies Schopenhauers most distinctive contribution to philosophy as his "insistence that Will is more basic than thought to bo...

Education Philosophies

individual study has its place. I think there needs to be a balance in the curriculum, although, I do agree with Deweys integratio...

Concept of the Human Imagination

What is Imagination? Imagination is "the power of the mind to consider things which are not present to the senses, and to consid...

Morality According to Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche

to understand the last mans comprehension of these notions, and why the last man is not able to create beyond himself, one has to ...

Philosophy of Learning According to Seymour Papert

that Piagets theory of child development is "so simple that only a genius could have thought of it." Piaget, very simply, proposed...

Religion According to Martin Heidegger

between knowing a subject and that object of thought and he presents this as an artificial distinction in that the object that one...

Seneca's Stoicism

denominator among all mortals. Growing old is an inevitable stage of life that many people fight tooth and nail; for others, howe...

Pragmatic Philosophy of William James

of moral responsibility, freedom of action, individual effort and aspiration" (Frost, 1962, p. 50). While a pure empiricist wou...

Unity, Being, and Becoming According to the Philosophers

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...