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«My roommate has asserted that every time she breathes pepper, she sneezes. Her past experience of breathing pepper and sneezing has always reflected her future experience of breathing pepper and sneezing. She claims that if she amasses a...» Summary abstract

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«When one thinks of the president Lyndon Baines Johnson, typically one associates him with the turbulent period we call the ‘sixties.’ Whether or not his term in office merely coincided with this era is an issue often debated. Nonetheless, his...» Summary abstract

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«The philosophical efforts of the Enlightenment thinkers were based on the relationship between metaphysics and epistemology. Descartes, Leibniz and Berkeley progress in their understandings of being by refining the means by which they are able to...» Summary abstract

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«Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are probably the most famous political thinkers of the 17th century. The generally accepted view asserts that these authors stood poles apart, the first one advocating an absolutist regime and the latter recommending a...» Summary abstract

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What exactly is the difference between act-utilitarianism and rule-utilitarianism? Can rule-utilitarianism succeed where act-utilitarianism fails?

«According to the meaning we give to ‘actions’, we get two different theories under Utilitarianism. And there is a great debate between those two schools of utilitarianism about how exactly the individual utilitarian should make their moral...» Summary abstract

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«First, we will see that if protestant theology has undoubtedly influenced the early expansion of capitalism in America, it is probably no longer the main factor explaining the important commitment of Protestants to modern capitalism. As an...» Summary abstract

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«The question is, therefore, whether Rawls's egalitarianism is not enough egalitarian or too egalitarian. After having exposed the main points of Rawls's view of economic justice, the analysis of its major criticisms, both from the left and the right...» Summary abstract

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«In his essay Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch, Immanuel Kant prescribes the means of attaining a worldwide peace among nations. In theory, Kant’s idea of achieving Perpetual Peace relies not on reactionary peaceful measures of ending wars...» Summary abstract

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«‘For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but is a tale.’ Cormac McCarthy, by profession, is concerned with narrative. Being so concerned, conclusions can be drawn by clues both explicit and...» Summary abstract

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«Gandhi’s thought follows in the footsteps of a philosophical tradition whose founders examined the nature of reality through the internal realm of the spirit. Their works described a constant and unceasing search for what is real, a journey that...» Summary abstract

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«The purpose of this research is to answer whether or not men on the UCSB campus conform to society’s traits of being a gentleman. When we are young, theories of etiquette and manners are instilled in us. Many of us grow up and continue to be...» Summary abstract

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«In the following paper we will undertake a close analysis of “The Self-Assertion of the German University,” Martin Heidegger’s address to the University of Freiburg upon assuming the rectorship at the school. Though space constraints dictate that...» Summary abstract

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«In both the Phaedo and Republic 4, Socrates offers an account of the nature of psychological conflict in the context of a discussion about the soul. Different conceptions of the soul and body emerge from these accounts, each of which takes on a...» Summary abstract

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«In the present paper I will examine Cicero’s charge in De Finibus that Epicurean theory does not, as it were, take virtue seriously. I will then lay out two Epicurean responses to Cicero’s objection. I will show that the first response – that...» Summary abstract

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«Henry David Thoreau was an essayist and philosopher who played a major role in the moral consciousness of the United States during the decades leading up to the Civil War. An influential and revolutionary thinker through both his writings on...» Summary abstract

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«Augustine was greatly appreciated by his respective community for his teachings on Christianity and the profile of the Christian identity. His resources were not limited to only the New Testament Scriptures but avail other writings to further...» Summary abstract

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«Ancient and primitive cultures demonstrate the use of myth as an epistemological basis, but historically they have been replaced by Rationalism. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, however, the insufficiency of reason for the task we give it...» Summary abstract

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«Augustine's Confessions are built upon the twin poles of a search for God and a search for self. These twin poles are also twining poles because Augustine proclaims that one can only understand self in light of God and that one can only find God...» Summary abstract

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«I take the question which is the title of this paper in two ways. First, I take it to mean, “what racial, historical, cultural, geographical and political factors gave rise to what is commonly considered the first flowering of philosophical...» Summary abstract

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Memorize your timetables: The rational world and the power of prediction in Tabucchi’s La Testa Perduta di Damasceno Monteiro

«In Antonio Tabucchi’s La Testa Perduta di Damasceno Monteiro, the reader is pulled into a detective murder-mystery dealing with decapitation, murder suspects named il Grillo Verde, and tripe. Of particular interest, however, is the character of Don...» Summary abstract

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«In his Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Hegel gives an account of the modern social world as consisting of three institutions: the family, civil society, and the state. Focusing on modern civil society, I plan to discuss one of several ways in...» Summary abstract

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«Both Lady Anne Conway and Baruch Spinoza argue that the individual things in the world, everything from the mosquito to the chair to the supermodel, contain the substance of God. And by sharing in the substance of God, the chair, the supermodel,...» Summary abstract

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«Do you ever look at something for so long it doesn’t make sense anymore? Have you ever been stuck in a moment that was your entire life? Cheated death, but regretted it afterwards? Looked at the man standing next to you and thought, “Who will die...» Summary abstract

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«There is an adventurer who discovers more that is truly surprising, than the one who penetrates jungles, crosses deserts, and keeps the company of caravans; for all ‘Africa, and her prodigies’ cannot have an effect on the placid, unplumbed nature,...» Summary abstract

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Analyzing the Amplesso: The philosophy of lovemaking in Calvino’s Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore

«Italo Calvino’s Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore is usually acclaimed on grounds of its experimentation with narrativity. More specifically, Calvino weaves the beginnings of ten different pseudo-novels into a larger plotline involving the...» Summary abstract

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«Nonviolence is both a form of theory and the commitment to a lifestyle which adheres to this theory. Although there are different perceptions of the importance of direct action, nonviolence is mostly defined by its attitude of understanding and...» Summary abstract

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«Right off the get go one can see these two philosopher’s thoughts on morality appose one another, but their differences goes far beyond a petty disagreement over morality. The nature of their conflict goes much deeper, past a simple debate over what...» Summary abstract

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«This naturalistic observational study examined the effect of a child’s sex and age with regard to how long comparatively that child is likely to engage in the three established categories of sex-specific toy play: male sex-specific toy play, female...» Summary abstract

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«Introduction The Book of Common Prayer is the universal title given to a number of prayer books in the Church of England and used all throughout the Anglican Communion. The very first volume, that came out in 1549, in the reign of Edward VI, was...» Summary abstract

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«During the late eighteenth century, significant changes in the arts promulgated the development of, what has since become known, as the period of a neoclassicism. The period has become such an important part of art and architectural history that any...» Summary abstract

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