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Thomas Jefferson: Contradiction

associates in Europe" he would refer "to blacks as lazy, slow, unable to reason, lacking in imagination and even spoke against the...

Intelligent Design and Aquinas

18). Harrison (2006) credits Aquinas as being the "major figure" in the reintroduction of Aristotelian concepts into Western cul...

A Review of Deaf Like Me

A 5 page review of the book by Thomas Spradley and James Spradley. 1 source....

Literary Application of Rene Descartes' Method

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...

Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water

Thomas King's novel Truth and Bright Water and its thematic duality are discussed in five pages....

God's Existence Arguments of St. Thomas Aquinas

In six pages this paper examines St. Thomas Aquinas' 'proof' that God exists. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Thomas Aquinas' Arguments and the Lack of Proof

In five pages this paper examines Aquinas' 5 arguments on God's existence and exposes the errors in his 2nd argument. Three sourc...

The First Cause and First Mover Arguments of Thomas Aquinas

principle being expressed is that everything which causes change, or gives rise to existence, must be the result of some predecess...

David Hume's Perspectives and the Arguments of Thomas Nagel

In five pages this paper examines how David Hume's perspectives are addressed by Thomas Nagel in his arguments. Three sources are...

Philosophy and Cultural Relativism

own regions. For example, in New York it is legal for a woman to remove her shirt on a public, city street but few do so as they r...

Proof Offered by St. Thomas Aquinas That God Exists

This paper examines the contingency theory and causality argument offered by Saint Thomas Aquinas in his cosmological theories on ...

Friedman’s The World is Flat

of companies such as Dell and AOL to outsource their telephone centres has created jobs, but also meant that the has been the abil...

Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

Philosophically Considering the Existence of God

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

Existence of God

goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...

Philosophical Arguments Pertaining to God's Existence

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

God's Existence and Knowledge

In four pages this paper discusses how God's existence is argued through epistemology with Thomas Aquinas' arguments providing evi...

David Hume and Thomas Aquinas on God's Existence

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

Living in the Utopia of Thomas More

In five pages this paper discusses whether or not the Utopia described in Thomas More's text would be desirable for living with ar...

Thomas Laqueur's Making Sex Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud

In five pages this paper examines the one gender theory argument of author Thomas Laqueur in Making Sex and also critiques the tex...

St. Thomas Aquinas' 'Second Way' of St. Thomas Aquinas -- An Argument on “in fieri” and “in esse”

In three pages this paper analyzes the 'second way' interpretation of Saint Thomas Aquinas in the presentation of an 'in esse' and...

Thomas Nagel/”Moral Luck”

that are beyond their control. In other words, there are factors that affect the way in which an event is evaluated morally that a...

Two Perspectives on General George B. McClellan

book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...

God's Existence Cosmological Argument

be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...

Should the US Drill for Oil in Alaska?

a minimum. He points out that the protection that the oil companies have "provided for wildlife" at their drilling sites at Prudho...

Wise Fool in Shakespeare

discussing how the character of Enobarbus fits with these definitions, presenting us with the fool of "Antony and Cleopatra." Fo...

Othello by William Shakespeare and 3 Different Perspectives

directors. Because of the intimacy between stage performers and the audience, Shakespeares prose is able to serve as a feature pe...

Existential Views of Death in Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle"

was composed, as a response to and exploration of Thomas emotions surrounding the momentous event ("Dylan" 2010). Formally speakin...

Importance of the Fool Character in William Shakespeare’s King Lear: A Critical Assessment

might be King Lear, but if there were no Fool, there would be - in his opinion - no play. In Shakespearean Tragedy, Bradley procl...

Bushmen and Midwestern Town, An Anthropological View

African societal influences. For instance, as farmers bought land, they cut off access Bushmens to natural waterholes, displaying ...