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Aren't a Changin' Although women's roles have changed drastically, particularly within the past 40 years, women "are perceived negatively when they try to be direct, assertive, and forceful." Unfortunately, this forces women to have to work harder then…

that law and its implementation is the decisive factor that determines the success of a society. But is this generalization justified? Tim Li explores whether this idea is reality or just another myth. A society is based on a system of rules and…

is one that deduces most attempts to error and misdirection. Nietzsche begins his account by attacking all past endeavours of intellect by asserting that, "over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors"(169). He continues by…

are two aspects of the problem of evil: the philosophical or apologetic, and the religious or emotional aspect. We also noted that within the philosophical aspect there are two types of challenges to faith in God: the logical and the evidential. David…

belief in a good and powerful God is rationally possible, nonetheless many contend that the existence of such a God is improbable due to the nature of the evil which we see in the world about us. They conclude that if such a God existed it is highly…

that people have not been sure about many years before we were born. Many people looked toward the religious aspect of how every thing was created, while others chose to find out through the study of science. Throughout history, religion has caused…

has a striking congruency with some Nietzschean principles. Going from Malcolm Little to Malcolm X to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, the man most famously known as Malcolm X experienced similar metamorphoses found within Nietzsche's path to overman.…

favor of the existence of God. By demonstrating that an Atheist world cannot account for the preconditions of the laws of logic an Atheist cannot even account for a rational debate concerning the existence of God.         "The impossibility…

in class we had a brief discussion of what personal identity is. I didn't get a chance to speak out my thoughts and opinions so I felt like to share it with you.                  Personal identity is what I see myself as, positively…

to doubt the knowledge received from the senses, begins with an exploration of the continued existence of objects. He contends that since objects possess a continued existence, reality is not correctly perceived by the senses. As Hume says of the senses,…