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Pure Reason Essays and Term Papers
Freedom And Reason In KantMorality, Kant says, cannot be regarded as a set of rules which prescribe
the means necessary to the achievement of a given end; its rules must be obeyed
without consideration of the consequences that will follow from doing so or not.
A principle that presupposes a desired object as the ...
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Immanuel Kantwas born on April 22, 1724 in Konigsburg, East Prussia. At age 8, he entered the Collegium Fridiricianum, a pietistic Latin school, where he remained for 8 1/2 years and studied the classics. he then entered the University of Konigsburg in 1740 to study philosophy, mathematics, and physics. In ...
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Justifying The Ways Of God To Man: Paradise Lost, Book IIIOne of the most important things an individual can do in his or her life is come to an understanding of God. It takes some people all of their lives to figure out whether they even believe in a God, never mind which one. Imagine how difficult it would be for someone to portray God as a ...
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Anselm's Ontological Argument And The PhilosophersSaint Anselm of Aosta, Bec, and Canterbury, perhaps during a moment of
enlightenment or starvation-induced hallucination, succeeded in formulating an
argument for God's existence which has been debated for almost a thousand years.
It shows no sign of going away soon. It is an argument based ...
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God's Omniscience vs. Free WillFaith and skepticism have always been conflicting ideas that constantly have bombarded humanity. In Book 5 of the Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius addresses the tension between the ideas of predestination and free will. The purpose of this essay is to present the arguments of this prolonged ...
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Plato On Justice And InjusticeIn The Republic, Plato attempts to demonstrate through the character and discourse of Socrates that justice is better than justice is the good which men must strive for, regardless of whether they could be unjust and still be rewarded. His method is to use dialectic, the asking and answering of ...
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OthelloIn the Elizabethan times, there was a common belief that all beings belonged to a structure called the "Great Chain of Beings". At the top of the chain was God, who was the absolute symbol of perfection, followed by angels which had reason, human beings, and then animals, that were full ...
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Othello 7In the Elizabethan times, there was a common belief that all beings belonged to a structure called the “Great Chain of Beings”. At the top of the chain was God, who was the absolute symbol of perfection, followed by angels which had reason, human beings, and then animals, that were ...
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A Comparison between the Epistemologies of Plato and St. Thomas AquinasA Comparison between the Epistemologies of Plato and St. Thomas Aquinas
By Peregrino Blanco, 2011.
Introduction
When we talk about epistemology we talk about knowledge. How do we come to gain knowledge? Plato and St. Thomas Aquinas had very different views on this topic. For this paper: ...
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Confucius And PlatoPlatos ideal regime achieves justice by controlling individuals and their desires by setting down a compact to not tolerate injustice or suffering. By setting down laws and compacts and to name what the law commands lawful and just.(Bloom,359a)
Plato believed that even individuals who practice ...
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Plato And ConfuciousPlatos ideal regime achieves justice by controlling individuals and their desires by setting down a compact to not tolerate injustice or suffering. By setting down laws and compacts and to name what the law commands lawful and just.(Bloom,359a)
Plato believed that even individuals who practice ...
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Plato And ConfuciusPlatos ideal regime achieve\\\'s justice by controlling
individuals and their desires by setting down a compact to not tolerate injustice or suffering. By setting down laws and compacts and to name what the law commands lawful and just(Bloom,359a)
Plato believed that even individuals who
practice ...
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OntologyOne of the most controversial debates in philosophy has been over the nature of being. In the Pre-Socratic era the dispute focused on whether change was constant while our human perceptions made static separations so that we could make sense of our environment, or if being exists omnipresently ...
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Ontology One of the most controversial debates in philosophy has been over the nature of being. In the Pre-Socratic era the dispute focused on whether change was constant while our human perceptions made static separations so that we could make sense of our environment, or if being exists ...
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The Occult in General (short musings/facts)The word 'occult' is a word in very common usage these days. However, it is also a word that is misused, and has become a word to define the "black arts". As a consequence, it tends to instill revulsion and fear in the minds of the vast majority of people. It comes from the Latin word 'occultus', ...
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Descartes 2How does Descartes try to extricate himself from the sceptical
doubts that he has raised? Does he succeed?
by Tom Nuttall
[All page references and quotations from the Meditations are
taken from the 1995 Everyman edition]
In the Meditations, Descartes embarks upon what Bernard Williams ...
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The Virgin And The GypsyThis novel is very intriguing and teaches lessons of morality, religion, and of life and death intended for those with imagination and insight.
The author’s style contributes deeply to the intrigue and true meaning to this novel. The author’s use of imagery makes tensions in the story ...
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The Last Of The MohicansIn by James Fenimore Cooper, historical romance is apparent through settings, characters and plots. Cooper is considered by many critics to be the father of the American historical romance. Fred Lewis Patee said, “Not only was Cooper the pioneer (of the historical romance) in America, and ...
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