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consider that if an entity, such as a nation, is to grow and become prosperous there will be enemies and as such perhaps war is es...

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...

defines pornography, which is that they do not know what it is, but they know it when they see it (11). Similarly, it is not out o...

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

the universe, in which human beings are pictured a being at the top of the pyramid to one that sees life as an expanding circle th...

What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

morning and be blown up on a bus or go to a discotheque and be killed in an explosion. These are not unusual scenarios there. For ...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...

the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...

meaningless activities of play, for example, could have a tremendous impact on the development of the child. He identified four c...

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...