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- 16241: The Symposium: A Philosophers Guide to Love
- ... notions of the value of honor and virtue to the philosophers of this time. Soon after Pausanias completes his lecture, Aristophanes is heard. Aristophanes relays a legend to the group on the beginning of the world and the creation of man. In this myth we learn that through these beliefs man and women were once created as one being. The two were joined back to back with two faces, four arms ...
- 16242: The Sight of Science
- ... science should be essentially aimed at the discovery of truths behind natural phenomena, which is confirmed by centuries of careful analysis and experimentation rather then on authority, stature, or popularity of the scientist. Since the world has matured and advanced since the times of the ancient thinkers, the contemporary scientists are in a better position to explain nature. In searching for a method of arriving at knowledge, Descartes considered ancient logic ...
- 16243: DOROTHY
- ... Tofranil, theantidepressant that she was taking. Whether the overdose was accidental or intentional remains a mystery to this day. Dorothy was cremated and buried at the Little Church of the Flowers at Forest Lawn. Bibliography WORLD BOOK GROILERS ENCYCLOPEDIA Word Count: 595
- 16244: Elie Wiesel
- ... were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister perished there, his two older sisters survived. Wiesel and his father were later transported to Buchenwald In 1945, at the end of the war, Elie moved to Paris, where he studied literature, philosophy, and psychology at the Sorbonne. With a strong desire to write, Elie worked as a journalist in Paris before coming to the United States in 1956 ...
- 16245: The Existence of External Forces
- ... in everyone, and it cannot be measured, predicted, or understood as well as the other type. In fact it is often unable to be seen at all, but it must exist simply because the entire world or even the simple workings of one man's brain cannot be described completely using only the laws of nature. A complex moral decision is created in the mind of men by more that just ...
- 16246: The Disproof (and proof) of Everything
- ... time, men (I'm speaking of the human race, this is not sexist in anyway because women are included in this too) have pondered our existence and purpose, as well as the nature of the world we live in. This is perhaps the single most time consuming thought we ever have for most people live their entire lifetimes without finding the answer or even coming close to one. I myself have ...
- 16247: Mercury Report
- ... weight silicate. This gives a core radius of 75% of the planet radius and a core volume of 42% of the planet's volume. The pictures returned from the Mariner 10 spacecraft and revealed a world that resembled the moon. It is pocked with craters, contains huge multi-ring basins, and many lava flows. The craters range in size from 100 meters (the smallest resolvable feature on Mariner 10 images) to ...
- 16248: Reincarnation
- ... Mrs. Corkell's maiden name. In addition to this, Virginia had memorized several Irish monologues as part of being in high school drama club. Lastly, Virginia had more than likely heard stories about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition from her neighbors and friends. In this exposition a life-size Irish Village was constructed in Chicago , Virginia's home town. All these things Virginia experienced but had forgotten. Then at some ...
- 16249: Socrates and Maintaining a Harmony What is Right and Expression of Opinions
- ... in place to create order. A You must either persuade it or obey its orders, and endure in silence whatever it instructs you to endure, whether blows or bonds, and if it leads you into war or be wounded or killed you must obey.@(Crito p.63b) The society in which a person lives creates a mutual relationship in which every person in that society is indebted to, if he or ...
- 16250: Personal Identity: Philosophical Views
- ... that body is changed, is one the same person? Someone's body is surely different at age 40 than at age 4. Also a problem arrives in alterations to a body. If John goes to war, becomes injured by a mine, and then has his legs amputated is he not still the same person, John? Therefore, the preceding definition of body theory is not sufficient, since it does not account alterations ...
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