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- 10941: Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Moral
- ... that he develop his skills for many possible reasons. Rational beings are an end in themselves, and if you do not better yourself, you are not serving yourself.(Abbott, 40) Lastly, the fourth man, in great prosperity, has a chance to help others in need and does not. This can be viewed as a workable universal law, but it cannot be willed as the good thing to do because if no ...
- 10942: Does Science Explain All?
- ... to the other eighty-five to ninety percent of it? Does it just sit there and have absolutely no use? Or does it perhaps contain the universal commonalties of what links us all as a great big tribe of human beings; containing our greatest hopes, our worst fears, our dreams and creativity. Perhaps it does contain a link to the realm of mysticism and surrealism which artists such as Salvador Dali ...
- 10943: Hume and Descartes on The Theory of Ideas
- ... it is objective reality, according to him. I believe this is a strength of his because of his convincing argument, "If the objective reality of any one of my ideas is found to be so great that I am certain that the same reality was not in me
therefore I myself cannot be the cause of the idea, then it necessarily follows that I am not alone in the world, but ...
- 10944: Fate In Macbeth
- ... out of time at will. This ability allows them to both see the future and to change its very course. This of course proves to be an illogical paradox when examined analytically, but Shakespeare's great work is brimming with paradoxes ("Fair is foul, and foul is fair" I.i.11). This ability leads to some interesting and important moments in the play. For one, the witches seem to already know ...
- 10945: Our Free Will
- ... remark, he may try to excuse himself with a I could not help it remark. But if he is a normal person mentally, then he could have helped it; he could have acted differently. The great American pragmatist William James in his famous essay The Dilemma of Determinism,' James rejects determinism on the grounds that there is no free choice. James appealed to direct experience to provide evidence of the existence ...
- 10946: Existence of Man
- ... do not conquer their fear all growth stops. The fear of growing of old is what kept Estelle from being more than mere a boy toy. The fear of dying kept Garcin from being a great pacifist journalist. If a Congressional Medal of Honor winner had not conquered his fear of death, to jump out of a trench to save his buddy, his friend would be dead. If Moses had not ...
- 10947: Femininity In The Odyssey
- ... have their intriguing. Which are very distinct to one another but manage to grab a hold of him. There is a rainbow of women represented in this epic poem. Even though there may be a great diversity among the women in themselves, they basically share the same role. They encounter Odyseeus and show him a better passage way to his way home. The difference between them show the reader that the ...
- 10948: Can One Perceive Or Confirm The Existence Of An Idea Or Object That Is External To Him Mainly - God?
- ... valid question that Descartes asks is: Is it conceivable that a finite being have the idea of an infinite existence? We can understand from Descartes writings that he believes in a God. God is unspeakably great, eternal, independent, and all knowing. What Descartes deduces is that the nature of an infinite existence cannot be comprehended by a finite being. Subsequently, by the fact that he believes there is a God is ...
- 10949: Autism 3
- ... usually without tears. Communication is still a real problem because of the childs situation. The inability of autistic individuals to function socially or interact with others is an area of the syndrome that strikes great interest. The autistic social dysfunction is a specific type of social impairment that is not observed even in young, normal children, and not accounted for by mental retardation, as such, (Cohen 28). Normal children demonstrate ...
- 10950: Descartes' Skeptical Argument and Reponses by Bouwsma and Malcolm
- ... the whole. In order to understand Descartes' argument and its sometimes radical ideas, one must have at least a general idea of his motives in undertaking the argument. The seventeenth century was a time of great scientific progress, and the blossoming scientific community was concerned with setting up a consistent standard to define what constituted science. Their science was based on conjunction and empirical affirmation, ideally without any preconceived notions to ...
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