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80Is it Okay to Use Animals In Research?
Animals used in medical research are tortured and abused. I contend that far too many animals are used needlessly in repetitive research or for instructional purposes. One might rightfully ask, “Are so many experiments required to produce the...
1 comment67A Socratic Dialogue on Art and Beauty
[The following is a Socratic dialogue I have written to help get at the meaning of the word beauty. All characters are fictional, except of couse, for Socrates]. Atreus is the director of the Art Gallery...
3 comments68Is Learning Really Recollection?
In both the Meno and the Phaedo, Socrates puts forth the theory “learning is recollection.” Socrates does not provide us with an argument for this claim, per sé, but he does provide us with a...
2 comments81Must Art Be Beautiful?
Is beauty a necessary component of art? Or more to the point, can a work of art still rightfully be considered art even if it is disgusting or disturbing? One approach in attempting to answer this question is...
0 comments72Parsimony: The Simple Truth
If asked to explain why a simple explanation of some phenomenon or event is preferable to a complex explanation, many people would likely respond by saying that it is just natural to think that the...
0 comments74Scepticism of the Ancient Greek Philosophers
The sceptical contention is that we cannot know anything at all, not even whether the sceptical contention itself is true. This doctrine led the ancient sceptics to suspend judgement on many issues,...
0 comments74Guilty by Gender: A Look at Catherine MacKinnon's Feminist Legal Theory
The world has long been made up of patriarchal societies. In the Christian tradition, the Bible asserts that woman is a helper of man, and therefore serves a subservient role to him. For millennia, the...
0 comments68Is God Providential? An Argument by Epicurus
Many people are comforted by the belief that there is a God whom is loving and caring. These believers feel God is watching over them, protecting them, and providing for them. However, even among those who believe in the existence of God, not...
1 comment76Aristotle's Four Causes
To fully understand an object or an event, we need to be able to answer some basic questions concerning its nature. Aristotle argues we can only know a thing fully when all the causes of its existence are known. Furthermore, Aristotle believes each...
4 comments76A Brief Note on Kant and How Synthetic Propositions a priori are Possible
In the Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Kant’s most important question is, “[h]ow are synthetic propositions a priori possible?” (4: 276). Kant proposes that we are aware of at least two...
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