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Morality - The Pre-existing Doctrine

... is no action that is best, and no action that can be justified. We must realize certain values and beliefs that are ignorant to ... beliefs that are ignorant to those commands of God. Part of man's mission is discovering the preexisting and universal code that ...

(5 pages) 155 0 3.5 03/Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

"Freedom of Will": comparing Chinua Achebe's "Civil Peace" and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's "Meeting in the Dark".

... believe in transcendental freedom, that we are "noumenally" free. Since, moreover, the belief that we are free and that we are a ... belief every individual has a fate, which leads him/her through predetermined life events. Nevertheless, it is possible that ...

(7 pages) 109 1 3.7 14/Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Analysis and evaluation of Naturalism

... system. The naturalist belief that everything happens must be happened. For example, the determinism is belief that everything happen is ... that God does not create our world, everything is by natural order. Because of naturalist belief that nothing that ...

(4 pages) 137 0 3.9 16/Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

"Utopia: An Interaction Between Social Idealism and Realism"

... stated his belief that the idea of a world like Utopia is similar to a poison that contaminates people's minds - a false belief, a ... other forms of worldliness by the rich. He despises gambling in belief that losers are forced to lead a life of crimes. The ...

(14 pages) 278 0 5.0 04/Feb/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Hobbes' views on humanity. Is this conception of humanity accurate, that is, is man a self-preserving and anti-social machine? Are humans ultimately selfish and perpetually in a state of conflict?

... beliefs. There is nothing that one side can say that the other won't contradict, sometimes with a stronger point. What Hobbes also says that ...

(10 pages) 113 1 2.4 02/Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

"The World of Rome" by Michael Grant.

... believed that virtue joins man to God and that two things follow this belief: That all humans have an importance and that there is a bond that ... which led to thoughts of death. He held the firm belief that the soul upon death of the body and mind would ...

(3 pages) 79 0 5.0 05/May/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Plato's view of Justice in The Republic.

... belief that injustice is more profitable to the individual than justice. By restating his belief that ... belief that only the powerful have control over justice and successfully canvassing for a general consensus that rulers are fallible he shows that ...

(12 pages) 342 2 3.5 26/May/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy

It is our moral responsibility to Question God's existence and if there is a God, would he want us to use our reason.

... say that we must have faith, meaning in that particular context, that we must believe because it is good to believe. Nevertheless, belief that ... mean that one is an atheist, or that there is no God at all. Beliefs don't equal facts and anything that ...

(3 pages) 96 0 4.5 30/Jul/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

A look in to the platonic soul.

... and there are times when there is not. It is his belief that the best case of self-discipline exists when the parts ... most definitely sacrifice their true moral beliefs for immoral ones making them immoral. It is courage that allows one to stand up against ...

(6 pages) 54 0 3.0 22/Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy

Jean-Jaques Rousseau's "Social Contract"

... all born as innocents. This is contrary to Christian religious beliefs that we are born with original sin. We are born with ... it for anything more than that; to set beliefs in people who wouldn't go against their beliefs. With Rousseau's government in ...

(4 pages) 117 2 4.5 19/Aug/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

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