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Judaism is the religious beliefs and the way of life of the Jews, that started as the faith of the early Hebrews.

In the closing part of the article, the researcher concludes that absent of self-defense should be compensated by the introduction of the legal conventions justifying killing in war.

Smith, a pioneer of political economy, would be interested in analyzing the current economic situation in the country and, perhaps, even suggest ways for the country to overcome the economic crisis.

A hypothetical imperative is conditional with command applied to us at our will and the end of it is willed while categorical imperative is unconditional where our will is exercised in a particular manner with [...]

Thesis: Sanders in his "Doing Time in the Thirteenth Chair" expresses that justice cannot be achieved by means of a mere discussion of existing evidence and questions the procedures which usually take place during the [...]

At the same time, analytic truth is viewed by Wittgenstein as an explanation of the truthfulness of the logical one. At the same time, the necessary truth is compared and affiliated with the logical one [...]

The moral life is not so much action as thoughtful action, and the moral fruit of action is not "results" but the experience of life.

The book abounds in controversies, for instance, the author makes use of the process of dreaming to show that the work of the brain alone is not sufficient for the creation of consciousness.

This paper will analyze the role of the logics and analytic philosophy in the overall philosophical ideas of these authors, and consider the impact of Gottlob Frege's ideas upon the philosophy of Bertrand Russell.

Philosophy is a broad system of thoughts about human being natural history and the natural world of the realism human beings live in.it addresses fundamental and pervasive issues and thereby guide us in the route [...]

The philosophical position of one of the greatest luminary of all times corresponds to the significance of the city. The Island of Dr.

One of the principles of justice deals in maintaining the political order in the society, Rawls advocates that every human should have equal rights to the simple liberty which is well-matched with other person's liberty.

The author discusses positive and negative features of the individuals, describes the forms of government, and introduces the idea about the necessity of the education in order to create a perfect state with perfect people, [...]

Nietzsche's all-out assault on the entire Western Judeo-Christian cultural and philosophical tradition is one of the most important issues of the abandonment of the faith in progress through the submission of human reason that had [...]

In the wilderness, a person is surrounded by pure justice, by the law of nature, by the world in which one may see the consequences of one's actions and enjoy the fruits of one's labor.

The third area that is given consideration in observing the ethics of care is the importance of background information in protecting and upholding the interests of the individuals in question.

As well, the ruler will do his job in the best way if one does not abstract from one's responsibilities."Therefore, I suggest that we first consider the nature of justice and injustice as they appear [...]

In most cases, people evaluated their moral conduct concerning rules; conduct is considered to be moral if it is by rules and wrong if it is against the rule.

Metaphysics tried to explain the origin of things on something that is beyond our scope of reasoning when measured against our capacity to understand things with respect to our senses.

The truth of love is to follow the way of love like philosophical way and see the soul behind the body, everlasting beauty of virtue, and idea behind the beauty of transient love.

However, the end of history in Fukuyama's analysis of world events pointed to the end of ideological evolution and the crystallization of Western liberal democracy as the final end product in the science of governance.

This is exactly the intention of Berkeley here; he intends to argue that an object of perception will not be the state of the human mind but an item of the universe.

The same goes for the state and its laws: the citizens are expected to obey these laws for they are meant to do good to them; when, for some reason, the contrary occurs, the citizens [...]

From their arguments, it is evident that natural law is directly related to the concept of justice and that they are the foundations to good governance.

He notes that the fundamental part of an association is the household that is comprised of three different kinds of relationships: master to slave, husband to wife, and parents to their children.

He does not satisfactorily give justification of his claim that the relationship between the truth of the idea objective and the recognized truth of the event that brings about the idea is direct.

At the beginning of the eleventh book of "Confessions" Augustine justifies his analysis of the problem of time by means of referring to the act of creation of the book itself, saying that he analyzes [...]

Platos book the Republic is now believed to be one of the most influential works in the history of Western philosophy and political science. This is one of the core ideas in the Republic.

Being a man who believed and supported all that the government of Athens stood for, he was not going to be the one to falter from his beliefs and faith in the state and its [...]

It is possible to give the right to the ones who think that money can buy happiness. This conclusion is not accepted by psychologists who think that wealth brings the happiness only in the moment [...]

However, in the context of immigration issue facing our nation today, it can be stated that the entire statement is not correct and though the stronger, in this case the government, has every right to [...]

The plan to kill Oedipus takes a twist when his mother and the servant refuses to kill him, allowing the opportunity to live and later to fulfill the oracles.

Many topics that are discussed by the philosophers in psychology are the ones that arise because of the recognition that the philosophers have in cognitive sciences.

According to this thesis of Huntington, the fall of communism signaled by the breakup of the former Soviet Union in 1991 ended the Cold War era in which the protagonists were the forces of democracy [...]

In general terms, human beings try to explain the occurrence of certain events in terms of the cause. Many assumptions in the scientific study are mere hypothesis for the object under test, and many of [...]

Watching on the sky people know it is blue, but they are mistaken, as they can just believe that it is blue, and so on.

The veil of ignorance presumes that the representative is logical and considers the concept of right inform of prioritizing irreconcilable alleges, application of justice to all irrespective of social status or race and should be [...]

The framers had in mind the preservation of the public good, and not the promotion of private interest. The notation that the motivation to maintain a position of power can be destructive was addressed by [...]

Velleman is correct in his conviction that in this case, the patient's decision will be the outcome of a federal right to die; the situation with euthanasia is common to that of abortion with the [...]

This approach is considered with the fact of how these loved ones should, on the one hand, bear all those condemnations and disagreements with life and words about soon death along with a perpetual presence [...]

It is essentially described by the existence of pleasure and in living an aesthetic life to the maximum one has to aim at maximizing the given pleasures.

The rapid progress of humanities in that period was close-knit with economic and technological developments across the whole Europe and North America, in particular, the invention of the internal combustion engine, formation of the new [...]

Also, his philosophy conveys the importance and the beauty of the life of faith in the midst of a discouraging world.

For instance, when it comes to cognition one can say that trees are the important components that make a forest while in philosophy one will say that the soil is the vital component that makes [...]

Confucius' principal intention is to ask people to abide by the law and wants the rulers to be the persons of virtue and character.

The Bible is the infallible word of God as depicted by His inspired prophets and the story of a people. The plethora of ills plaguing the planet and the human family today is the result [...]

The church needs to encourage the member to live by the God's grace by trusting more on God than in their own abilities Bonding with your people is the second point.

In the book "On the advantage and disadvantage of history for life" Friedrich Nietzsche dwells upon the problem of the necessity of history for people, how it can change people's lives and whether it helps.

The Apology by Plato is the account of Socrates' defense in the court of law, while the Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau is the essay defending the captain who rebelled against [...]

Therefore, gender/sex communication questions will be formed such as "How does the gender influence the time spent using mobile phones?" The question will focus on the relation between the gender as an independent variable and [...]

As far as Emile Durkheim is concerned, we should that the overarching argument of his work comes down to the following: he suggests that the constant process of labor division or specialization as it is [...]

The philosophical heritage of the US from the side of African American authors is significant to evaluate on the prospects of freedom, religion, education, and social importance of Black population for the United States.

The following examples from the work by Stevenson and Haberman demonstrate the unacceptable and acceptable instances of paraphrasing and explain the reasons for their acceptability: "We have here two systems of belief that are total [...]

The past life in the Arab environment and the way of life of the people influenced the formation of Islam since the customary norms of the society in the Western Arabia was a basis for [...]

One of the first important considerations he gives to his assessment of why humans engage in art is the constant oppositions he finds in nature the male/female opposition being the strongest of these as they [...]

An individual right to liberty is similar to the right to be free, that is, to do what you want. The main issue that arises in libertarian is whether the right to liberty is a [...]

One of the founders of Greek ancient thought was Plato whose works became the handbooks of many modern philosophers and scientists.

Anne Bradstreet's role in the cultural literary movement was not more than a female poet, striving hard to achieve her identity in a male dominated Puritan society."The Prologue" is one of the attempts of Bradstreet [...]

The representation of the predestination and the role of the government in the society were covered at first, in the religious and philosophic writings, and then gradually, the political conscious started to have an independent [...]

The belief is that God is a being, who is not only the creator of everything in existence and is the central source of wisdom, love, and divine intervention in the universe.

The part of Leviathan entitled "Of a Christian Commonwealth" addresses such religious controversies of the 16th-17th- century United Kingdom as state and church relationships and establishment of Church of England's position towards continental Protestants and [...]

In that regard, a definition that covers all the concepts of critical thinking might be considered as follows: Critical thinking is the use of those cognitive skills or strategies that increase the probability of a [...]

More than thirty years ago, one of the most interesting philosophers of the twentieth century, Hans Jonas, discussing the problems of the experiments on human, outlined the necessity to limit the appetites of "number-hungry research [...]

It is impossible to treat the world and human beings' activities and way of life on the basis of abstract notions and thoughts, as it was underlined in Hegel's philosophy.

It is the goal of the present paper to review such areas of ethical issues within the field of criminal justice as: pretexting during investigation and police misconduct, and their influence on the investigated case.

Accordingly, the essence of the aforesaid Socrates' argument in the court is the focus of the Apology written by the student of Socrates, Plato, sometime after the court decision was taken and Socrates was killed.

According to the author, the context of discovery is about the actual method and process that has allowed a new idea to come forth while the context of justification is about the manner in which [...]

The consequence of the sin implicated in Abel's murder is a judgment that is bound to follow generations Gen 25 records the second form of sibling rivalry in the Old Testament between Esau and his [...]

His lecture appeared to be areal inspiration to many watchers; the professor highlighted his principles of life and attitude to death.

It can be assumed that Nietzsche is praising the moral values provided by religion, whereas knowing the fact that he rejected the religion as an institution, it can be stated that Nietzsche points out to [...]

The philosophy of Plato on the components of the soul and their role towards the development of character is also accepted by Aristotle.

Those theses might be listed as follows: the identification of reflective practice in the sphere of worship leading; the interrelationship of the already mentioned worship to doctrine, concerning such religious fields of it as "atonement", [...]

The author effectively states the futility of the numerous discussions and controversies of the educational content as the manner simply involves what the student should learn rather than what should be taken out of the [...]

He does so through VII:15, in saying that happiness is found in the acceptance of the conditions of one's environment, not in varying degrees of performance. Socrates, if trying to gain the sense of a [...]

The Upper Scripture of Purple Texts engraved by the Spirits is gained from a being more distant and majestic than those religions that the former scriptures were obtained from, and the procedure for getting the [...]

In the field of individual rights, more or less for the purpose of protecting the rights of citizens in society critics have a shift from a philosophy of individualism to one of public welfare and [...]

If a person is certain of one thing more than of another, so the first thing he is certain of is considered to be absolute for him.

Judaism is a religion based on the relationship between God and man and to the Jewish wisdom means having insightful knowledge of the relationship between oneself and God.

In addition, the prominent thinker estimated rhetoric in the context of logic, because logic, as well as rhetoric and dialectic, point out the studying of persuasion methods.

Descartes draws a strong line between the belief of the existence of something and the knowledge of the existence of something.

In reading about all the various theories of physicalism, also often called materialism, it presents a confusing array of philosophical stances, which all have one thing in common: the separation of the physical from the [...]

Kant basis his principles of moral ethics on rational procedures and distinguishes the concept of duty from the "self and others" asserting that all actions must be performed only out of a sense of duty [...]

However Descartes explains that the question about God's existence works in a slightly different way; that if you have once proved God's existence and you posses the memory of the proof of His existence in [...]

The growth of the movement towards the formation of states is, however, a gradual one; it is continuous, from the sixteenth century to our day, and while, throughout this period, and in almost every country [...]

A lot of skepticism way-lays most of the claims presented in the discipline of knowledge, as well as the means employed to produce the same.

It is on such a basis that this paper observes the various aspects of this very important principle in morality and its influence on the various systems and ecologies in the lives of humanity as [...]

Ethics is not a theory of discipline since our inquiry as to what is good for human beings is not just gathering knowledge, but to be able to achieve a unique state of fulfillment in [...]

Sometimes it seems that if everything in this life was equal it would be easier to perform our main function in this world to live happily.

The author's identity is very important in the essay, he was personally attacked by a criminal and this is why the author wants to ensure that justice prevails in the society, a clear picture of [...]

In understanding the rights to be a citizen to a given country of countries, there is a strong argument for and against its relation and relevance to the basic theories of justice.

Before attempt to answer this question, it is necessary to discuss the definition of the doctrine of egalitarianism, prioritarianism and the purpose of this doctrine.

However, the sense of malfunction that can result in a crisis in both political and scientific development is required as a precondition to a revolution.

This, therefore, means that any moral being is allowed by Kant's moral reasoning to enter into a relationship with an individual based on the goodwill of the individual rather than the vicious nature he is [...]

Although God can annihilate in the twinkling of an eye, those who do not die will know that God is the creator of the world who has brought it into existence from nonexistence because, since [...]

The intention of many people is to act in a moral site of theirs. It is therefore the situational pressures that make the failure of moral people to act morally.

This sharper definition is essential to truly live the enlightened life of the faithful, as one must have a clear idea of one's beliefs and their basis if one is to live in harmony with [...]

One of the elements of pluralism that has served to confuse today's secular culture is the various approaches that have been taken to the 'true faith.' According to Carson, a great deal of the confusion [...]

The level of how weakness and sensibility to pain, adversity is discouraged is shown when the lord Krishna makes it a point to elaborate to Arjuna, that in his position as a warrior he has [...]

His "Social Contract" is one of the most intriguing writings of Rousseau because he defends man, though being part of the society has its own right in terms of privacy.

Propositions of relations of ideas are related only to the matter of thinking and logical observation, whereas the propositions of relations of facts are based on the relations of cause and effect, which can be [...]

The authority of nature God was replaced by religious logic and ruled till Descartes developed a amechanistic view of knowledge' and the paradigm in the present world of information technology is that "the universe and [...]

To define philosophy is rather difficult, as like Popkin and Stroll claim, "philosophy is generally regarded as per haps the most abstruse and abstract of all subjects, far removed from the affairs of or dinary [...]

This plainly makes it a duty to love ourselves and regard our own happiness by the value of the scale. It is our desire only that induces within us the spirit to help others therefore [...]

Being among the first to question the dominant Aristotelian schools of thought that had so dominated academic thought throughout the ages and approaching the subject from the mathematical field rather than the traditional philosophical stance, [...]

While Mill does not use the complicated jargon that is put forth by Kant, nonetheless the notion of good and actions to which we should subscribe are relative points in this complex world.

Ethical relativism has to be based on the overall ideas of the individual and it has to be intrinsic such that all the necessary changes or the responsibilities can be adhered to.

The two classical works of "Saint Augustine confessions" and "The letters of Abelard and Heloise" can be effectively used in modern contemporary society to expound on the different world views and Christianity views held by [...]

Because of the responsibilities that lawyers have once they have committed themselves to their clients, there are times that their morality is put to test."A lawyer has to be with a client loyal, knowledgeable, skillful, [...]

Biblically, this concept appears to be true in that man was formed with a soul, that is, the mind, and a body, even though philosophy teaches or tends to show the differences between the mind [...]

Camus prefers a particular position that facilitates human freedom and 'external reality to interact in both ethics and the creation of art.

A citizen, for Aristotle, is an individual who has the capacity and the right to engage in the governance of a "polies".

The central topics here are the doctrines of intuition) and deduction, and it is in these that the novelty of Descartes' account resides.

To begin with, Plato believed that acquisition of knowledge was the way to being virtuous in life but he tended to differ with philosophers like Aristotle stating that education to be acquired from the natural [...]

The Scientific Revolution had a great impact on the life of the world and its further development, understanding of social and scientific values and principles, civilizations, and the world around us.

The Republic explains the plan of the Euthydemus: to reveal and clarify the matters of good. Understanding is, questionably, significant and adequate for the regulation of motive in the spirit.

In many ways, the extreme rationalism of Descartes, its traditional alternative and empiricist aspects and the debate between them, constitute the part of the Enlightenment which had the greatest influence in the nineteenth century.

With the advent of modern technology and modern means of living, along went along with it is the advancement of the human race.

In the Age of Enlightenment, the people fed up with the abuse of authority began to question the divine right of rulers to own land, together with all that it contains including people.

During Plato's life, the democratic constitution set the seal on the work of the tyranny, for it ensured the exclusion of the large landowner from a predominating influence on politics, and it put effective power [...]

The main topic of this very essay is the consideration of the three metamorphoses of the human spirit developed by Nietzsche in his book and their influence on the whole work and outlook of the [...]