YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner
Essays 211 - 240
perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...
secular tone ("The Enlightenment," 2006). The eighteenth century would begin the Age of Reason where there was intellectual discov...
conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...
the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation" (Jeremy Bentham, 2006). This simple co...
this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...
of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgement and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest me...
the Republic. Take pornography as an example. Plato argued that objectionable ideas can upset the understanding (Johnston). Femini...
Before Socrates, this characteristic was missing, and the addition of it is so striking that it sets Socrates apart from the philo...
(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...
if coincidences are meaningless activities created by the individual thinker who indeed creates his own universe? It is really dif...
"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...
Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...
the goal of his philosophy was to provide "common sense" (Honderich 754). Differing also from Descartes, Reid argued that the mind...
be an object of science. To this question, Aquinas answers "no." First of all, following the medieval style of reasoning, he posit...
the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....
as this being the basis of the way than man will then behave as a result of the toughs Hobbes attention turns to human nature. C...
the role of the human mind in knowledge acquisition. They believe that information can be acquired both inductively and deductive...
In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
over the course of time, come to define the individual and are as "real" as any authentic reality could/would be. Therefore, the ...
discussion. It is a way to present his theory on justice and what is right and wrong. Rawls view is basically that any rational h...
critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...
"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...
teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...
who waste time believing or fearing that which is untrue could not possibly be calm or contemplative; as such, they could change t...
preoccupation with metaphysical and theological subtleties rather than with biblically based ethics" (Gutek 101). Rather than get ...
the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...
is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...