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What is Philosophy? according to Plato, Pieper, and Thoreau.

... the physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily form. They must be both visible and tangible, yet their state of being-ness is not the ... in the order of the cosmos and has predicated a great deal of its philosophical wonderings (and ...

(5 pages) 368 1 4.8 07/Aug/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

The Philosophy of Life

... the study of reality, more specifically, reality that lies beyond the physical world and cannot therefore be grasped by means of the senses. It asks, "What is the nature of ...

(7 pages) 167 0 4.6 15/Jul/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

The Argument from Design, and the Problem of Evil

... the intricacy and complex layout of many features of the natural world. Take, for example, the ability of honeybees to create honeycombs using the minimum amount of wax for the maximum amount of ...

(6 pages) 207 0 4.7 01/Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

A study on Plato, Aquinas, Anselm, and Pascal.

... of the world. So, a posteriori things are things that we need experience to know- we need the facts about the world. Try to understand the ...

(13 pages) 148 1 4.6 14/Oct/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

A Critical Analysis: "Aristotle's Dilemma". Aristotle's Dilemma written by A. F. Mackay.

... of goodness and the eternality of the Form of the Good. He further notes that the duration of pleasure increases that quality’s goodness, so why not the duration of the Form of Good? One must wonder ...

(4 pages) 20 0 4.3 19/Nov/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Philosophical Comparison Darwin & Bergson

... wonder if the "distribution of the inhabitants of South American [and] the geological relations of the past inhabitants" couldn't "throw some light on the origin of species--that mystery of ...

(8 pages) 31 1 4.3 08/Sep/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

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