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… second city is its abolition of private families and sharp limitation on private property in the two guardian classes. Starting with Aristotle, this communism in the Republic's ideal city has been the target of confusion and criticism. On the one…

… Aristotle says, "the remaining possibility, then, is some sort of life of action of the [part of the soul] that has reason. One [part] of it has reason as obeying reason; the other has it as itself having reason and thinking" (118). This quotation…

… she rarely talked. As a teen, she pretty much hung out by herself. Some called her a loner, for she was rarely ever seen with anyone. But for Nancy Reerdon it just seemed second nature to be that way. Perhaps this was due to her upbringing. One of…

… point have been strong roots in philosophical thinking for decades. Some noted philosophers applying this notion to their thinking are none other than Descartes himself as well as John Locke, who's "Tabula Rasa" proposition is well known. It should…

… Dream Argument, whereby he is can find no conceivable way to differentiate between whether he is either dreaming or awake in their perceptions of the environment. As Descartes states in his Meditation 1: "…and to experiencing in my dreams…

… to choose, which can include making free choices that are unconstrained by external circumstances, Descartes identifies the faculty of will with freedom of choice, "the ability to do or not do something" (Meditation IV), and even goes so far as to state…

… has its limits the world of imagination is boundless." By this, Rousseau indicates that without imagination, life would not be as ideal as it is now. As a result, a person who has no imagination in his life is dull. Two inventors, Leonardo da Vinci…

… Andrew be a person? Andrew is simply NDR-114: an androgynous robot designed to handle household chores, child education, servant work, and anything else as ordered by humans, the Martin family. It only got its name when Little Miss stumbled over the…

… in landing a job with Hutchison Telecom East Ltd as an engineer in the Switch department Every technical fresher in a telecom company, has to undergo a training, to get a holistic understanding of the system. This starts with a brief introduction…

… the "Integrity Crisis in Moral Conscience and the 21st Century" was written to understand the crisis in contemporary moral philosophy and the loss of the integrity of moral conscience in our society today. What is discussed first is how philosophy has…