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Essays 1711 - 1740
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
contributions to ethical and social theory" (Anonymous John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, 2002; MILL.HTM). In his work "Principles of ...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...
the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...
world, one would find the "ideal tree of which all trees which we see are copies, the ideal house and ideas of all other objects i...
as it moves form lower life forms towards more perfect higher forms that are capable of varying degrees of intelligence and ration...
family, and how the state gets into the picture. II. German Political Theory When it comes to German political theory, there...
book may be considered very light reading and perhaps this was the authors intent. After all, he has made a career of trying to re...
serving as common denominators for any potentially unified answer: Mans beliefs are either perceptional or inferential in nature (...
long and interesting historical evolution, and its origins are largely responsible for the reluctance of allopathic medical profes...
As such, attempting to interpret knowledge, language and meaning is to draw from the innermost recesses of ones existence. Hermen...
a world in which there is much pleasure but the people are vicious, unless they derive pleasure from viciousness, which seems to b...
This paper examines the true meaning of the very vague word, good. The author points out that the word has two separate and unique...
In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...
is a body, "more numerous than the people which compose it," but it can "never be shown" because it is simply an abstraction (Kier...
president, he had as much of an ardent following as he did a collection of adversaries; however, this diverse constituency reflect...
his theory of mind/body separation. His desire to achieve such an all-encompassing objective was meant to start at the beginning ...
and symbols, that is, how abstract ideas are communicated through the mediums of language, writing and also through visual communi...
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...
In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...
what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...