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Xena Warrior Princess: Her courage will change the world
... and ogres; all the while, learning and teaching of religious beliefs that on the surface stand at odds with one another ... the same conclusion: there are similarities among all religious belief systems that teach core values such as faith, love and charity ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism
... the belief that humans alone have intrinsic worth or value. Simply put it means that if something promotes the wellness ... belief that not just humans have intrinsic value, but other life forms as well. While there are different variations inside this belief ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
an essay with personal opinions on hume and descartes on the theory of ideas
... , one must realize that they have already had experience of these ideas. Hume's strength is his belief that all ideas came from impressions ... imagination that is why neither one is right. Even though Hume's imagination idea is bad, the rest of his belief is ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
The Only Truth Existing
... that we should find its certainty. From the "natural" experiences of our being, we hold beliefs that ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Comparing Devlin to Mill.
... his society with the belief that those morals are not intrinsic and encompass various modes of conduct that he believes are ... conjunction with this notion, Mill would affix his fundamental belief that this individual's decision to practice homosexuality is ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
TOK essay: Do questions like "why should I be moral?" or "why shouldn't I be selfish?" have definitive answers, as do some questions in other Areas of Knowledge?
... they feel happy about as they hold the belief that "Our own long-term happiness that is important, so we should behave in ... theorems as mankinds subconsciously believe in it and this belief is a lifetime belief. Samuelson, M 2004, The TOK diagram model, Class ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Aristotle vs. Darwin
... the popular belief that every organism was created to suit its environment and that there was order ... that needed a naturalist to keep a record of the ship's biological discoveries (Moore, 9). When Darwin began this trip, he shared the popular belief that ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Human Nature: Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau
... one had political authority or power, however, Locke disagreed with Hobbes belief that it would be a "state of war". (Lemos 85) In the ... Locke disagrees with Hobbes belief of how bad the state of nature would be, but this doesn't mean that Locke believes it ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Comparative essay contrasting both Kant and Aristotle's views on the philosophy of societal virtue.
... represented by the belief that only pure reason can lead to true morality. The consequences of this belief is that individuals no longer ... example of this thinking can be found in Kant's beliefs about a priori reason and the categorical imperative. By ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Socrates and Epicurus: Why death should not be feared.
... in atomism and in Epicurus' belief that death is a termination of our body and consciousness, and that once we're gone, we' ... of the belief in question, is simply that death is, in fact, not a bad thing (Jackman (1)). Epicurus believes that whether or ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics