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challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...

philosophical movement that appeared in Great Britain and suggested that all knowledge is experiential ("British," 2004). In other...

develops his inquiry into the contention to see if it holds up to scrutiny: SOCRATES: And when a jury is rightly convinced of fact...

contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...

horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...

of knowledge through experience, and so is the basis for synthetic statements that are linked to a postiori knowledge. Kant used ...

of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...

our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

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...

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...

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...

exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives, which help maintain order and a sense of direction that otherwise woul...

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...

taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...

when they heard the ringing of the bells, for they would associate this with being fed. In Brave New World, behaviorism takes the...

It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...

guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...

incorporate personal and sometimes selfish considerations into the process of ethical determinations, but this does not negate the...

can help to guide the decision making and create a firm foundations that will help to ensure that the outcomes are the best possib...

"the agent ought to promote the self above other values" (Moseley, 2006). This is not as ugly as it sounds: it goes all the way ba...

when Jesus says that "He has not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it."4 Theologians argue over the correct interpretation ...

that society, or the perpetrators parents, should not be blamed for any horrific acts. The offender is the only one that someone s...

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...

third wife and third child come a year apart between 1936 and 1937, while his next publication - A History of Western Philosophy -...

(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...