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- 9781: The Comparisons of Charles Manson to Transcendental Philosophy
- ... Charles Manson as a person with ideals and beliefs. Rather, a title of modern transcendentalist describes Manson's actions and preachings. Although he sits behind prison walls today, his influence will linger on past his death, through transcendental writings. Manson will probably never receive full credit for his beliefs and inspiration to create a better society, but people must remember that his ideas compare immensely to the great transcendental thinkers before ...
- 9782: Personal Identity: Philosophical Views
- ... it is a mysterious phenomenon. Since we have no clear and distinct idea of a soul , it would not be wise to base the definition upon it. For instance, some religions believe in reincarnation after death. This is when a soul enters another body. With this in mind, someone's soul such as Elvis could become reincarnated in someone else named John. However, we would not say that this Elvis and ...
- 9783: Mill's Utilitarianism: Sacrifice the Innocent For The Common Good?
- ... to distinguish between different pains and pleasures we should ask people who have experienced both types which is more pleasurable or more painful. This solution does not work for the question of torture compared to death in an explosion. There is no one who has experienced both, therefore, there is no one who can be consulted. Even if we agree that the pain caused by the number of deaths in the ...
- 9784: The One Truth of Reality
- ... moonlight. But it, too, is a false light ... for the feelings that are appeased through sunlight are still dependent on perceiving the world in terms of distinctions. It is loving life and being afraid of death. It is loving warmth and being afraid of cold. It is loving sunny skies and being uncomfortable under inevitable clouds and rain. And many other things. To end the struggle for what a person seems ...
- 9785: The Formation of An Individual: Cases, Terms, & Tools
- ... AWhen my perceptions are removed for any time, as by sound sleep, as long as I am insensible of myself, and may truly be said not to exist. And were all my perceptions removed by death, and could I neither think, nor feel, nor see, nor love, nor hate, after the dissolution of my body, I should be entirely annihilated, nor do I conceive what is further requisite to make me ...
- 9786: Hume
- ... miracle, if it has ever happened in the common course of nature. It is no miracle that a man seemingly in good health should die on a sudden.” (Hume p.888) Hume states that this death is quite unusual, however it seemed to happen naturally. He could only define it as a true miracle if this dead man were to come back to life. This would be a miraculous event because ...
- 9787: The Riddle of the Sphinx
- ... for events found in nature. The Jungians school denoted myths as a mechanism of wish fulfillment. Sir James Frazer, believed that all myths were originally connected with the idea of fertility in nature, with birth, death, and resurrection of vegetation as a constantly recurring motif. Though the modern interpretation of myths is not general but a specific explanation for myths of a single people. The theological interpretation states that myths are ...
- 9788: How Toxic Waste Affects Our Natural Environment
- ... contaminate huge areas. If the land that is intoxicated supports plant life, most of the plants and trees will die off. If the area is lived on by humans, it could cause serious illness or death. For example, an area by Niagara Falls (US side) was used during the 1930s by a chemical company to dump it's wastes. Most of them were hazardous, and the containers that held the chemicals ...
- 9789: Jungle and The Rain Forest
- ... on rain forests have grown rapidly, and numerous organizations are now attempting to reduce the rate of the loss. Bibliography: Caufield, Catherine, In the Rainforest (1985); Forsyth, Adrian, and Miyata, Ken, Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America (1984); Sutton, S. L., et al., Tropical Rain Forest: Ecology and Management (1984); Whitmore, T. C., Tropical Rain Forests of the Far East, 2d. ed. (1984 ...
- 9790: The Study of Linguistics
- ... time means a whole new environment to live in where we must constantly adapt to our surroundings to survive. Car insurance, for example, was considered a luxury 70 years ago, now it is life and death. The change can be so subtle over time that it hits us so hard we do not expect it, with horrendous results sometimes the outcome. Different cultures have different perceptions of their language, the languages ...
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