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Philosophy: Mind vs. Body discussion NOTE: THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR OF THIS ESSAY.
... a total genius when it came to this subject and has written more about it than any other philosopher I have studied. He was the father ... and the body. Descartes philosophy states that , if I lose my mind and become a machine of flesh and blood, then the body ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
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... poverty without a father, and a full family raised solely by his mother, Kody Scott led the stereotypical ?ghetto? life, a poor and broken ... killed, in which he acted upon many times, where losing friends is a common event and not being able to attend their ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
ethics and values
... Miller, Letters From a Father to his Son in College (Philadelphia: Grigg and Ellot, 1843). 29 Lindgren, "A Philosophy of Education," 2 ... With Blackberries©, the Internet, IPods© and IPads© we often lose sight of our humanity. It is of upmost importance ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Medical ethics. Refers to A.J Ayres criteria
... and the only absolute truth is change itself. A. J. Ayres, the philosphical father of situational ethics, would argue that the criteria ... her strong interests, once she decides to forego abortion, a woman may lose her freedom to act in ways that would harm ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
From eudaimonia to happiness. Overview on the concept of happiness in the ancient Greek culture with a few glimpses on modern time
... . Michael C. Moore Happiness is jogging with my father early on a Saturday morning, while in the midst of our run ... losing their self-control, i.e., the awareness of their limitations, they attempt to gain more than they receive, though they have received a ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Comparison between two romantic writers. "You touched me" by D. H. Lawrence and "The use and abuse of history "by Friedrich Nietzsche. Compares topics such as happiness and life
... of a dying father and his two daughters, who loves their father a lot and an adopted son enrolled in the army. The father continuously ... productive within a certain horizon: if it be incapable of drawing one round itself, or too selfish to lose its own view ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Life Of Pi Questions
... was his way of proving a point. Since his father was atheist he had to let him know that he was a strong believer in religion ... Pi's journal compared to the last three, you slowly see a man losing all hope for survival and his entries which were once very ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Machiavelli's Philosophy.
... a young lawyer with a good family and a loving girlfriend to whom he was set to be married. One day, as he was neighboring with his father ... goes through with the wedding and loses his real love in the process. Alfredo made a big sacrifice. Although what he ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
"Freedom of Will": comparing Chinua Achebe's "Civil Peace" and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's "Meeting in the Dark".
... father would take when he found out, or the loss of the little faith the simple villagers had placed in him [...]. He feared to lose ... been argued and debated throughout the centuries in a constant fashion. Apart from philosophers and theologians, several ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Relativism, Subjectivism, Egoism
... the measly price (for a human life) of $500 and a ten-year-old car. Further, her and her fathers subjectivism reflected by their ... car. The other benefit would be the fact that they would lose an economic burden. By getting rid of the child, they would ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics