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Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche on Joy, Will, and Knowledge

knowledge is not as important as faith. That is a significant difference between the two. At the same time, neither admits that hu...

Karl Marx and the Criticism of Karl Popper

with the use of a random sample, one can say that a conclusion may be drawn. If it is found that children will think like their pa...

Socrates and Machiavelli on Leadership

character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...

Fantasy Space of Michel Foucault, Walt Disney and MGM Studios

at least the observance of it. At MGM Studios and Walt Disney World, human submission to discipline and punishment is complete, th...

Socrates and Niccolo Machiavelli on Political Education

ground, whether that is through dialectical discourse or reason (1994). Barber claims that neither approach leaves any room for po...

Happiness, Stoics, Epicureans, and Aristotle

not likely to live a pleasant life unless you practice moderation; the Epicurean philosophy was an argument for a traditionally mo...

Age of Reason and Empiricism's Limits in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke

will experience touch, smell, taste and so forth, the latter of which is difficult to relay. In other words, how can one provide a...

Utilitarianism and Morality According to John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...

Sartre and Hegel

trust anything. It is hard to know who is right, which is Hegels point. Finally, Hegels concept of organicism is also well known....

Divine Vies of Plato

n.d.). Plato did talk about God, in Timaeus, Plato said that if God made the world as perfect then the soul must be perfect, also ...

U.S. Constitution and the Views of Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato

the fomentation of rebellion, and to encourage individuals to occupy themselves with private rather than state matters. He saw it ...

Liberty Principle of John Rawls

is that these constructors of the new society are completely ignorant of their own racial, social and economic position within th...

Conservatism and Edmund Burke

on Edmund Burkes Philosophy, 2002). * The traditions therefore which evolve from the life of a nation have a real purpose and usef...

Theory of 'Indeterminancy of Translation' by Willard V. Quine

was born in Akron, Ohio and would one day be considered as "the most significant philosopher to have written in English in the sec...

Critically Comparing Plato and Aristotle's Views Arete or Virtue

Conceptions of Virtue). Furthermore, it was Plato who argued that love was the essential ingredient in the good life because love...

Democracy as Viewed by Aristotle

and it was on this that Plato based his philosophical oeuvre (1994). He was not only a disciple of Socrates but a diehard adversar...

Religious Thought v. the Enlightenment

challenge to, the assertions of Jonathan Edwards. Ben Franklins autobiography is also characteristic of Enlightenment thought whi...

Ideas on Society Through a Comparative Analysis of the Ideas of Aristotle and Plato

rich this indicates why he sees a democracy as a deviant state as it is argued that the poor will be the dominant influence on the...

Government and the State, Good and Evil, and the Individual According to Philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

from mans knowledge of truth; Aristotle believed that all men pursued happiness which came not from wealth but from contemplation ...

Chuang Tzu and Socrates on State Obedience versus Self Interest

own life? Not all philosophers would agree with the path he ultimately chose. First, it is important to keep in mind that practi...

Beauty, the Sublime, Immanuel Kant, and Edmund Burke

and Kant. While both of these men had many critics, they raised points which even critics contended were worthy of the discussion...

Analysis of Niccolo Machiavelli's Life and Works

In twelve pages the life of political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli and his important works are analyzed. Four sources are cite...

Good Political Leadership and the Differing Views of Aristotle and Plato

as the original Greek legal process aspired to achieve such status, it can readily be said that its integrity has been severely co...

Plato and Aristotle on Good

idea that concepts and forms had to begin somewhere. How does one know that they are looking at a pink, or a red, or a blue item? ...

'Argument Against Skepticism' by John Hospers

to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...

The Mind-Body Problem and Descartes

thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...

Art According to Plato and Aristotle

However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...

Concept of Human Nature

idea of self is more genuine and original, unique in its conception. Also, at the very foundation of this philosophy is that there...

Ancient Greeks and Politics

basically a war between Athens and Sparta (Thucydides, 1881). This came about as a result of the growth of the Athenian Empire, a...

The State and Virtue According to Alexis de Tocqueville and Aristotle

Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...