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WVO Quine: Two Dogmas of Empiricism. A summary of Quine's problems with Carnap's philosophy.
... belief that everything can be equated to simplified smaller elements that ... that Carnap's drawing a distinction between analytic and synthetic points to our quest for simplicity in science, possibly deriving from a deconstructionist belief that ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Knowledge is Power
... a belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence. On the other hand, fact is something that actually ... world include two billion people that practice Christianity, one billion that follow Islam and one billion that are non-religious (National ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Platos republic the socratic method.
... that people have the raw materials within to figure out philosophical questions; they just need to channel them. That idea is the basis behind his belief that ... his counterpart that is answering them. Thus, the circumstance that can occur that may result ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Medical ethics. Refers to A.J Ayres criteria
... that exists outside the human condition, unchanging with geography and causality. Situational ethics, on the other hand, is the belief that ... , Hubbard, a propent for maternal rights, fears that justification for individual surveillance and controll ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
The existence of God (or lack thereof)
... as it killed beliefs that the world was flat and at the center of the universe. The fact that we cannot explain ... that one day we will be able to explain these unknown things through science. Science will eventually kill god. Just as it killed beliefs that ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Kierkegaard's Individual, Religious Life vs His Ethical Life and Universality; Are they really mutually exclusive as Kierkegaard claims? Suggested Subject: Humanities:Philosophy:Ethics
... belief that God will provide and will restore to their life everything that they had given up. Theirs is faith that ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
"The Idea of Good in Teachings of Different Philosophical Schools" (based on the Internet sources)
... of mind and body, the quiet of mind that is free from fear and belief that death is painful, the body content with natural ... , the concept of good is closely related to that of virtue. Plato states that every individual is granted with the different degree ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
The Platonic and Aristotelian Conception of the Soul
... that death is the opposite of life and that death comes from life and life from death ( Phaedo , 70b-72d). This belief that ... 70b-72d). This belief that nothing can come from nothing is similar to the Permenidean philosophy of coming to be, that 'what is' ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Moral status
... escape the natural world where everything is uncontrolled. Kant's belief that "the capacity to direct our lives through reason" allows us ... on a higher power. It is unconvincing to believe that something that does not exist naturally can be the basis of human ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
A study on Plato, Aquinas, Anselm, and Pascal.
... must be the case that sometimes we ought to give up our previously held convictions. For instance, the belief that someone is guilty of ... existence of God. What this means is that he wants to prove that God exists (that's the ontological part) and do so ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics