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Medieval Christianity: Music and Sculptures

liturgy provided innumerable texts, all set to music in the style we call Gregorian chant. The church served as an important patro...

The Last Supper & The Italian High Renaissance Period

has the reputation of being "the paragon of Renaissance thinkers, engaged as he was in experiments of all kinds and having brought...

Rene Descartes/Proving God Exists

the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...

A Comparison of Kant's Enlightened Human Being with Nietzsche's Noble Human Being

human comparable with Kants ideas? For Nietzsche, the noble human being strives to be alone, to stand up for himself, to take on r...

Augustine, Aurelius And Guibert

Plato and Anselm . He talks about seeking truth and wisdom consistently throughout the text. For Augustine, "Truth is one, and Go...

Plato's Contribution to Understanding Philosophy and Philosophers

academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...

Nietzsche And Kierkegaard: Compare/Contrast

- while a religious man himself - strongly believed to reflect mankinds futile passion toward Gods plan and the failure to realize...

Why Socrates 'Did' Philosophy According to J.S. Mill

In four pages John Stuart Mill's views on why philosophy was 'done' by Socrates are examined in a consideration of the ancient Gre...

Morality According to Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill

place of divine forces and natural phenomenon is seen in a depersonalized way. The final stage is the third stage of positive scie...

A Consideration of the Question Why Should I be Moral?

In this four page essay the writer turns to the philosophies of August Comte for an answer to the enduring question of why moralit...

Supreme Principle of Morality by Immanuel Kant

In six pages this research paper defines morality within the context of Kant's philosophy and also considers supreme morality's va...

Relating Kant's Works to the Dismissal of Air Traffic Controllers

In six pages this paper discusses President Ronald Reagan's dismissal of air traffic controllers within the context of Kant's phil...

Philosophy of Environmentalist Patrick Geddes

In six pages this paper discusses how Patrick Geddes' philosophies revolutionized urban planning by emphasizing nature. Five sour...

Autonomy and Immanuel Kant

In eight pages this paper discusses the concept of autonomy within the context of Immanuel Kant's philosophy and in the text Angel...

THE TALIBAN, ITS MEANING AND ITS HISTORY

Afghanistan, and why it has such a blind hatred toward America -- and all things Western. Though we cant really come up with a sol...

Blake and Wordsworth

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...

Karl Marx and the Enlightenment & Kant’s Hope for the Future

not believe that we should be without kings, but that their power should be limited, "That Kings are not superiors to, but adminis...

Philosophy of Vocational and Technical Education

Clearly, vocational and technical education is required in many instances for such programs to be successful. Vocational, career a...

A Case Study to Demonstrate Influences on the Delivery of Mental Healthcare

influences can be broken down into political, economic, social and technological. Political influences are one of the most importa...

A Philosophy of Education

Some educators are now suggesting that the traditional model is not meeting the needs of students, who are required to do little b...

Rearing a Happy, Loving and Productive Child: A Critique of the Scientology Philosophy

a child in an authoritarian way but rather essentially allow the child to do whatever it is that they want (Reitman, 2006). Scien...

The Necessity For Counselors To Work Within The Code Of Ethics And Practice

practitioners. There are no limitations to having such a comprehensive approach to ethics, inasmuch as the industry would cease t...

Portrait of a Teacher

example, the student may have difficulty finding information on a topic, the teacher guides the student in an Internet search, sho...

Dorothea Dix, Pioneer of Nursing

Dixs problems with mental health may have inspired her passion for aiding those who were diagnosed as being mentally unstable or i...

The Humanities

is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...

Personal Philosophy for Counseling

to achieve real and positive change in their lives. When writing a personal essay based on this guide, the student should adapt ...

Educational Philosophy

their place of origin or starting language capabilities. Multiculturalism is a component of my educational philosophy because it ...

Evolution of Personal Philosophy of Nursing

the "inability to determine the meaning of illness-related events" (McCormick, 2002, p. 127). Furthermore, Chinn and Kramer (1999)...

Fields of Philosophy

Thales (c. 600 BCE) Pythagoras (c. 550 BCE) Heraclitus (c. 500 BCE) George Berkeley (1685-1753) Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) were ...

Issue of Community Policing

a proactive partnership between law enforcement agencies, community, the DAs office, and public and private groups (Weinstein, 199...