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if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...

In nine pages this paper examines the social utopia presided over by a philosopher king as described by Plato in The Republic. Th...

In twenty pages this paper discusses the failed efforts of Plato to sufficiently train Dionysus the Younger to become a philosophe...

with the absolute. Nagarjuna disagreed with this sense of absolutism. Nagarjuna philosophy can also be distinguished from mainst...

philosophers and artists, and included figures such as Rousseau, Goethe, Hegel and Kant. One of the major elements of Romanticism ...

considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

a desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...

of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...

this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...

Hence, it is not unexpected that philosophers throughout the ages have also had different thoughts on freedom. While many people,...

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...

This paper examines space and time's inductive relativity as conceptualized by the paradoxes of Zeno in six pages. Four sources a...

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

discoveries of this philosopher? Has this person made a significant contribution that has led to the discovery or founding of some...

one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...

as a problem (Frost, 1962). However, later philosophers, as they pondered the nature of the universe, began to see the fact of cha...

held the belief that morality was performed because of the will of an "other," rather than driven by the beast within (The Philoso...

In six pages this paper examines William James' philosophy of human nature with religion a primary focus. Four sources are cited ...

In six pages this paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various philosophical theories with the utilitarianism of John S...

In five pages this paper examines philosophy and the nature of religious faith as considered in Clark's 1997 text Philosophers Who...

In nine pages a business dilemma is examined by consulting philosophers Rawls, Mill, and Kant on how to best handle the economic d...

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

In seven pages and 2 parts this paper firs considers the perspectives of Anaximenes, Anaximander, and Thales and then examines Par...

In four pages this report examines subjective and objective morality from the perspective of David Hume. Two sources are cited in...