During the last meeting of class we were led through a scattered discussion of the various philosophers and philosophies discussed throughout the year. If we are to find a common problem that offers any sort of unity to what we have been studying, it must be that each philosopher wants to discover how to go about experiencing reality. Philosophers such as Pierce, Tolstoy, Camus, Bergson, Russell, and Sartre have attempted to define an unconditional experience with varying degrees of success. ... Both philosophers believed that humans were neither diligent nor intelligent enough to interpret ...

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Plato, the great Greek philosopher, further expounds on the procedure of how reason effects will in his books, The Republic and Phaedrus. ... These philosophers agree that effective desires motivate one to act and that to increase one's enjoyment and to lessen the pain, one employs reason to sort through the desires to find value in them. ... Unlike other philosophers before him, Hume vehemently opposes the view that practical reason can motivate a person to action. ... Unlike the other philosophers, Rawls boldly claims that the person does not follow desires that spring up out of nowher...

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Edwards however, was and still is regarded by his peers and critics for being, "America's first great philosopher" (Hatch 143) and, "a significant intellectual"(Dematteis). ... Jonathan Edwards was not alone in his quest for a perfect Puritan society, but he quickly rose amongst the ranks to become one of the most inspirational, influential and important philosopher of his time. ...

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Socrates and Euthypro, two men of same times, and knowledge come together and converse on a subject that makes each other question and defend each other's respected beliefs and convictions. It is a discussion that seems sometimes one sided, and ironic, repetitive and confusing. This is in result of...

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John Stuart Mills, a British philosopher, political economist and civil servant disagrees with Stanton's speech and says "No no the generality of the male sex cannot yet tolerate the idea of living with an equal at the fireside; and here is the secret of the opposition to women's equality in the state and the church-men are not ready to recognize it in the home....

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Life Span Perspective Many individuals within someone point in their life do reflect back on earlier stages in that individual life and think about the many differences from how they use to be to how they are now. We often wonder why we have changed and when it takes to create the person we have be...

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During the seventeenth century, rational and ethical thinking opened the path to various innovative ideas, but was always confined to the limits set by religious authority. One profound idea that developed abruptly at this time period was the Scientific method, which impacted religious authority usi...

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The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apprehending material objects or qualities through the senses "The word perception is, in the language of philosophers previous to Reid, used in a very extensive signification. ...

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I was trying to give a scientific ground to the matters that were dealt before only by philosophers. ... Two great philosophers of the 19th century, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, claimed that irrational, primitive forces play important role in human functioning. ...

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While most philosophers title written compilations of their thoughts treatises or discourses, Descartes titled this particular piece Meditations to emphasize to the reader the cooperative nature of the work. ...

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Human Behavior When compared to other marsupial, human beings are more pliable due to their physiological adaptations, which have resulted in the development of a wide range of abilities and a unique versatility in behavior. Through the first twelve years of a human's life, the brain's great s...

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