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Essays 1171 - 1200
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
did the so-called "technostructure" - the idea that technology can have an impact on the economy (Landry, 1998). Furthermo...
to immigration reform, attacking affirmative action programs, welfare reform and tort reform (1996). Joshua Murachik, quoting Eliz...
considered his philosophy to be heresy. Abbey (2004) notes that the work which gained Diderot the charge of disseminating pornogr...
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...
what one wants, and visualizing it, that one will eventually be free from the gnawing desire. This is true either through attainme...
or sight) was subjected to each individuals standards of judgment. Whereas concrete facts were not changeable or subject to ones i...
conclusions. Most logical claims can be refuted. Thus, logic in some way is not much better than perception. At least, one can say...
In this way, Buddhism became accessible to all, and was able to develop the concept of community which...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
would come about as a natural consequence of romanticism ("Romanticism," 2005). For example, romantic music inspired nationalist t...
This paper discusses the 'realistic' value of realism in a theoretical comparison with nationalism, Marxism, and liberalism consis...
and their duty, and allowing them to share the advantages of education and government with man," which Wollstonecraft indicates wi...
In order to explore his general theory, it pays to look at his Second Treatise of Civil Government. It is rather compelling and ...
believed that everything we had heard to the contrary from the Martin Luther Kings and the Roy Wilkinses and the Whiteny Youngs wa...
It is further rather specific in that it notes particular parts of history which ultimately culminates in a state of communism (19...
childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...
doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...
an almost detached amusement. He describes them rushing about, in a hurry to get to work and to work as hard as they can. However,...
In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...
We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...
must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...
Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...
of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...
the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...