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Essays 1771 - 1800
what is real and what is perceived, and the one is not dependent on the other. Naturalism states that it is the laws of nature whi...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
In twenty pages this paper examines Great Britain's post compulsory education from political, cultural, and socioeconomic perspect...
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...
texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...
In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...
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 this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...
corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...
but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...
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...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
did the so-called "technostructure" - the idea that technology can have an impact on the economy (Landry, 1998). Furthermo...
to immigration reform, attacking affirmative action programs, welfare reform and tort reform (1996). Joshua Murachik, quoting Eliz...
childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...
believed that everything we had heard to the contrary from the Martin Luther Kings and the Roy Wilkinses and the Whiteny Youngs wa...
In order to explore his general theory, it pays to look at his Second Treatise of Civil Government. It is rather compelling and ...
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...
Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...