… What are you directly aware of whilst reading this passage? Is it the paper and ink that form the words? Or is it something more abstract, something intangible, something internal? According to indirect realism you are perceiving sense data,…

… about peace. They seem to think that, when another nation is disturbing the peace of our nation, that the only way to solve this problem is through violent means, most notably war. This could not be further from the truth. Because I believe…

… an offense against one of its members is an offense against the body politic. It would be even less possible to injure the body without its members feeling it. Duty and interest thus equally require the two contracting parties to aid each other mutually.…

… to say the least to take into consideration Longinus?s praise of the art. In ?On the Sublime,? this author with the unknown identity lauds the art of sublimity, stating that it is an ?eminence and excellence in language; and that from this,…

… should be to do whatever has the best consequences. Utilitarianism, the most popular of consequentialist theories, was formulated by Jeremy Bentham (1789) and later refined by John Stuart Mill (1861). In general terms, classical utilitarianism states…

… the human race has been searching for meaning. Throughout the years many theories have come to fruition about our creator, or creators, the majority involving a spiritual entity as the originator of all. Others involve more than one "god", each…

… goal of science since its birth as biology. History shows Aristotle and Charles Darwin as two of the most powerful biologists of all time. Aristotle's teleological method was supported widely for over 2,000 years. One scientist remarks that…

… these days? Yet once upon a time when Christ was here on earth they did. Living people experienced these phenomenon's it is all a matter of faith. A miracle is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the…

… is to come into union with the forms, the eternal, or the beautiful and good, in this life. Happiness, for Plato, would be getting to know the forms, the eternal, or the beautiful and good in this life. The forms are perfect ideals that exist…

… "Whether life or death is better is known to God, and God only" (CPQ 28). Since God has not told Socrates which is better, he decides that what the Athenians believe will suffice. When Crito suggests that Socrates escape and avoid death, Socrates…