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Kierkegaard's understanding of faith as a paradox, whereby the particular is higher than the universal, and therefore demands a teleological suspension of the ethical.
... a father is that he protects and cares for his child. To kill one's child is a horrible, wicked, cruel, sinful, immoral, criminal thing to do - a ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
This paper covers the main arguments covered in a free will theodicy using argument from Augustine, Plantinga, Hick, and Lewis.
... as a fathers love for his son, and as a mans love for his wife. He claims that we have a loving God. It is a God ... a great coward." (Lewis 1966) Later he wrote A Grief Observed that was a journaling through what he experienced in losing his wife. There is a ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Socrates
... without a father. He also says that he doesn't want to lose an old friend. Socrates refutes Crito's suggestion by saying in a general ... and disgrace. His sons would have to bear the name of a worthless father, and be disgraced for the rest of their lives. If ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul: The Complete 1783 Edition David Hume
... give him a right to dispose of it? let a magistrate on whom the welfare of a nation depends, let a father of a family ... substance. And that an immaterial substance, as well as a material, may lose its memory or consciousness, appears in part from experience ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
"Changes in a person are often the result of their learning more about themselves and how they fit into the world around them." Discuss this statement.
... owl and defy her father the child initiates change, "for what I had begun," she loses her innocence and is ... their world and their knowledge of themselves resulting in a transition between characteristics within individuals, and therefore, the development ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Where's The Happy State: A Comparative Literature Analyzing Freud and Rousseau.
... love. Freud believes that the fear of losing the love from the father inhibits an infant's aggression. "His aggressiveness ... the instincts of the powerful and maintained justice. With a restraining civilization in place, both Freud and Nietzsche , although ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
The analysis of the movie fiel
... Ray, he redeems his relationship with his father, his past, and lastly himself as both a father and as a man. Annie Kinsella Annie is ... a lack of corn, which will decrease his profits and might even cost him his property. On top of the possibility of losing ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
This is a essay on he enlightment thinkers. Focusing on Locke and Rousseau. This was my term paper for my history Of Civilizations class.
... gain absolute power. Thomas Jefferson, one of our founding four fathers, played a major role in the American Revolution. One of the things he ... for their subjects. He argues even if this were true, they lose out in the deal because all of the other stuff that ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern 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?
... , the love for a mother, father or grandparent is love without any attachments. Loving such figures are just a way of showing one ... they're certainly losing something. They don't gain power, wealth or recognition for their contribution. They gain a sense of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
An Interview with Bernard Lonergan What is "Critical Realism?" This essay delves into the theory of cognition posed by Lonergan, who was a Jesuit philosopher.
... Father Lonergan, you state that various types of "bias" may lead to a "flight from insight" when one is confronted with a ... the fundamentalist mind would lose only a simplistic picture of a clock winder God, and it would gain a profound appreciation of God ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy