Philosophy Essays and Term Papers
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reality, sincerity, integrity? Is it accuracy and honesty? How can we tell the difference between the truth and lies? Why does the media have the power to decide for us what is true?
As Oscar Wilde once said 'The truth is rarely pure and never simple'.…
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individuals, people identify themselves in a certain group. For instance, in a classroom, usually each student has an unique student number, by accepting such a number, every student has a valid identification in the class and thus can conduct daily…
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a person begins to search for something more than the world that he/she perceives. Second, he/she distances him/herself away from this perceived world. It is only after distancing him/herself from this perceived world that he/she realizes that there…
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ideas of life. He believed that humans were born good but social interaction changed us, making us bad and corrupt. So we are all born as innocents. This is contrary to Christian religious beliefs that we are born with original sin. We are born with…
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that humans were born good but social interaction changed us, making us bad and corrupt. So we are all born as innocents. This is contrary to Christian religious beliefs that we are born with original sin. We are born with natural differences,…
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they are saying that someone's feelings and amity, their passions and sentiments, cloud their sense of practicality and force them to make a choice that seems good only because of the emotional baggage that is lost with it. If someone is ensnared…
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and the values it promoted are really nothing less than the infant version of twenty first century America. Its emphasis on reason, freedom of speech, religion, and assembly, and its desire to secularize government all appear in the Bill…
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the other of his ignorance; 2) to make a true search for the answer. But sophists believed that 1) virtue could be taught; 2) there is no common knowledge. Socrates' ethical principle: 1) virtue is knowledge/ wisdom. Virtue - excellence, good at…
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Stoics: the essential nature of humans is reason. The universe is governed not only by law or god, but by the law of reason. All that occurs, happens in accordance to Natural Law, God. Their two fundamentals are: 1. Whatever happens is the inevitable…
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there is no experience of God, it does not exist. All our knowledge make of perceptions: a) impressions - immediate info that comes through senses (emotions, passions, inner feelings) a1) simple - what make you think (color, smell, taste); a2) complex…
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