Philosophy
Defining philosophy is itself a philosophical problem. Perhaps a great many philosophers would agree that whatever else philosophy is, it is the critical, normally systematic study of an un...
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In the following essay, Irwin describes the content of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, noting that the work analyzes traditional Greek ideals regarding the good life, the virtues necessary to b...
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In the following essay, Tessitore examines Book X of Ethics, arguing that in this final book of the treatise, Aristotle offers a concluding statement with regard to happiness. Tessitore notes that Ari...
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Peanut butter and a god
I am a rationalistic materialist refuting dualism, believing that it may be possible speaking in terms of metaphysics that nothing is real, and epistemologically what we can k...
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The following quote is from the Republic, written by the Greek philosopher Plato: "There will be no end to the troubles of states, or ...of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this worl...
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The difference between man and animal has been somewhat of a debatable issue over the times. There are valid arguments for both sides, but for this writer, one side is clearly taken - not just becau...
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Philosophy is defined by Webster as "Love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means and moral self-discipline" or "Investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or value...
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You have a person. An event occurs. The event enters into the sensory perceptions the person. The person's experience, logic, and beliefs (in other words the brain) will interpret this in a fashion pa...
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The new president at Ohio State University, the nation's largest, says college athletics must be fixed at the national level and he will have "zero tolerance" for player misbehavior at Ohio State.G...
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Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman at the time of her death, left her $4 billion fortune to a master of feng shui, the Chinese belief that fortunes can be improved by timing and the layout of objects,...
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Hamburg (dpa) - German Football Federation (DFB) president Theo
Zwanziger has called on Germany team manager Oliver Bierhoff and
former national team coach Rudi Voeller to e...
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British philosopher (b. Nov. 23, 1919,
London, Eng.
—d. Feb. 13, 2006,
Oxford, Eng.
), was during the 1950s and '60s a principal exponent of
Oxford
ordinary language philosophy. His book ...
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Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker, a physicist who researched atomic weapons for the Nazis and became a philosophy professor who espoused pacifism after World War II, died Saturday, his family said. H...
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One summer afternoon, the Italian textile heir and occasional model Cody Franchetti spotted a trash bin on the sidewalk outside his West Fourth Street apartment overflowing with classic literature...
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DEMETRIA: Wedding binder in hand, I made my way to my very first bridal salon visit. My bridal consultant's name was Emily. I immediately felt at ease with her easy smile and honest brown eyes. Th...
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Philosophy
Philosophy
Critical Essay by Terence Irwin
Peanut butter and a God
Ohio State president to press for change
