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The Idea of Exchange According to Marx and Smith

something being exchanged is worth what it can be traded for. It is explained that "the exchange value of a commodity is for Marx ...

Ideas for Future Blacks According to Allexander Crummell

In a paper consisting of five pages Crummell's contradictory philosophy as well as his suggested aims and ideas for blacks are dis...

Ideas According to David Hume

be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherently flawed. Not an altogether optimistic philosophy to be s...

Morality and Knowledge According to Friedrich Nietzsche, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Rene Descartes

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

Art According to Philosophers Descartes, Barthes, and Foucault

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

Philosophy According to Rene Descartes and Plato

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

God According to Jean Paul Sartre, Immanuel Kant, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this research paper and essay considers how God's existence or lack thereof was argued by these three philosophers. ...

Existence of God According to Rene Descartes

In six pages the proof Descartes offered that God exists is considered but other relevant issues such as why he would have been mo...

God's Existence According to Rene Descartes

In five pages this report examines Descartes' First Philosophy regarding nature and God's existence as featured in his First Medit...

God, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Virtue According to Descartes and Aristotle

In nine pages specific questions are answered regarding Aristotle's position on happiness, virtue, knowledge, and wisdom, and then...

Objective and Formal Reality According To Descartes

capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...

Descartes and the Mind-Body Problem

ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...

Knowledge and Philosophy

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

'Descartes' Evil Genius' by O.K. Bouwsma

you either mistake it for something else, or you can easily understand how someone might come to do this" (89). In this way, Bouws...

Cartesian Thought and Gilbert Ryle

In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares 16th century mind concepts of Rene Descartes and 20th century counterpart...

Human Nature as Perceived by Rene Descartes

In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...

Dream Doubt in the First Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages the First Meditation of Rene Descartes is examined in terms of dream doubt and how perception examples fall short of...

The Philosophies of David Hume and Rene Descartes Applied to the Abortion Issue

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

Intellectuals and the Use of Critical Thinking

The role of critical thinking in American society has taken on greater importance in the 21st century. This paper relates the conc...

"Character"/A Dictionary Perspective

are quite inept at conveying our personal perception to others. A young guy, for example, may imagine himself to be the most soph...

Background Ideas and Outline for the Paper Looking at the Potential Impact on Margin Trading In Russia

to allow trading to take place in this way? It is argued that margin trading was a contributory factor to the great depression in...

Questions and Prompts Mathematical Thinking

a student agreeing to do some of the work (Brousseau, 1997). It may be argued that this contract between teacher and student is ea...

Motivation at Starbucks

the lower order needs. Higher order needs are motivators such as the desire to belong, recognition, development and self actualiz...

What are Critical Thinking Skills

of the time. Even critical thinkers get stuck in ruts and do not see their own blind spots in their thinking (Foundation for Criti...

Plato's Arguments for Forms, Immortality and Knowledge

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

The Development of Problem Solving Skills

we first need to look at the developmental model of Piaget and what developments are seen as taking place at the different stages ...

The Idea of Arche in Pre-Socratic Philosophy

vital for survival (Protevi, 1998). Given this, water becomes a logical choice for the basis of the universe. But Thales went even...

American Labor

put the machine in his place. But the machine has not always been kind to man. In fact, labor unions came into being almost as so...

Cold War Ideology

of the people. The Domino theory would emerge, and with this theory, the people began to believe that they could be taken over by ...

Margaret Thatcher and Feminism

This five page paper discusses the way in which Margaret Thatcher could be seen as a positive influence in the feminist school of...