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… any arguments for believing in God because believing in God is a properly basic belief. He goes further to say that arguments are insufficient for the basis of a religious belief. Some beliefs are properly basic: perceptual beliefs, memory beliefs,…

… a result of our free will or were they predetermined by conditions in our past? The determinist and the fatalist believe these fixed conditions in our past transcend any notion that agents have the power to act otherwise than they in fact do. Determini…

… sit in the corner and think about what you did." Are your parents punishing you for doing wrong or are they trying to keep you from repeating a wrong act? Justification for punishment is essential in explaining whether the punishment is a retributive…

… just made was the best possible decision for you to make? An agent's relationship between responsibility and his decisions in life are affected by the alternative choices that were not taken as well as the choices that were made. Thomas Nagel believes…

… from 1724-1804 and made the switch of art over from classical aesthetics to modern aesthetics. Classical aesthetics has to do with the characteristics that make something beautiful, where as modern aesthetics has a view where an experience of beauty…

… should be a combination of how happy a person is and how much security they have. A person can be successful without being happy. For instance, how you affect others allow one to be successful without being happy. More specifically, a doctor or…

… Christmas time I was at a friends house where I and I few friends got into a discussion with her father about religion. An older man who had been through a lot in his life, Terry, had some incredibly valid points concerning…

… subject, there are so many variables, so many grey areas and unknown details. The war in Iraq both in the Gulf War (January-February 1991) and the Iraq war (March 2003 - June 2004) both had significant ethical issues on both the sides of the Iraqi people…

… anti-Helgian and pro-Kant. Held an extreme contempt for women. Main contribution is his doctrine of the will, which hugely influenced Freud's work on the unconscious. Wrote 'A Dialogue on Religion' which closely parallels Freud's 'A Future…

… of it that it was cathartic. We feel relief at this 'self-analysis'. In tragedy Aristotle believed that the Plot is most important, followed by Character, followed by Thought, and finally by Language, Melody and Spectacle. They illuminate us ethically. T…