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The Philosophy of Self, Consciousness and Language
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A 4 page overview of this complex philosophical arena. Questions regarding the nature of human consciousness and how it relates to cognitive unconsciousness are inextricably tied to questions of consciousness and unconsciousness in animals. So too are questions regarding the nature of human speech tied up in questions of whether animals have the capacity for language when, admittedly they have nothing like human syntactic speech. Modern philosophers have even occupied themselves with the question of how human behavior differs from that of intelligent machines such as computers and robots. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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The Philosophy of Skepticism
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A 5 page paper which examines Barry Stroud’s “Understanding Human Knowledge in General” and discusses the philosophy of skepticism detailed therein. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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The Philosophy of Socrates
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A 7 page paper which examines the components which comprised the philosophy of Socrates, specifically, ethics (virtue and piety) and his concept of the soul, as described in Plato's "Euthyphro," "Phaedo" and "Protagoras." Also considered will be the method of philosophical inquiry he developed to determine "true" knowledge. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Philosophy of Thales:
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This 4 page paper discusses some of the basic components of Thales' philosophy. For instance, this paper addresses the reasons why Thales is conisdered the first Western philosopher and how his theories helped contribute to modern science. Furthermore, this paper explores the concept of string theory and anthropic cosmology in addition to other ideas. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Philosophy of Time
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7 pages. The philosophy of time has been under debate since the day of Aristotle. Two articles in The Scientific American that deal with time are discussed in this paper and try to explain time in terms of both physics and philosophy. This is an intriguing paper that will pose many questions. But are the answers really out there? Time is indeed a mysterious entity that is difficult to explain. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A 3 page paper which examines Emerson’s call for new poets while stating all people are poets and mystics as seen in his essay The Poet. No additional sources cited.
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The Politics of Rousseau and Burke.
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(7pp) Rousseau developed the concept of the "noble savage," and to test it, tried living in the woods. Burke believed equality was a conception against nature and served in the English Parliament. One could claim they were both living out their political convictions, yet actually there is a lot more to their concepts and political consequences. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Possibility of Time Travel
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This 16 page paper considers the possibility of time travel and looks at the way in which two article deal with arguments that state time travel would result in too many coincidences to be a possibility. The paper looks at two articles Nicholas J J Smith’s article, Bananas Enough for Time Travel and Theodore Siders, Time Travel, Coincidences, and Counterfactuals. The bibliography cites 2n sources.
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The Power of Corruption: Obey, Struggle or Revolt?
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5 pages. Many people respect intellect over stupidity even if it means turning to crime. For some reason those that are intelligent are admired whether they are on the side of good or evil. Balzac, for instance, makes a case that in a society based on money, everyone is corrupted in proportion to his or her participation in the game. This paper will discuss what man should do in these circumstances: is it better to obey, struggle or revolt? Bibliography lists 1 source.
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The Power of Non-violence in Winning Freedom
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A 4 page argument that nonviolent tactics alone proved to be ineffective in effecting change in regard to South African apartheid. Not only did Mandela resort to violence prior to his incarceration because of his eventual recognition that nonviolence on his followers part was always being met by armed police, the three decades following his incarceration were mirrors of one another in terms of civil unrest and both the violent and nonviolent tactics that characterized it. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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