Essays 511 - 540
This 3 page paper gives a detailed analysis of Justice Thurgood Marshall's philosophical rejection of capital punishment,w hich he...
In eight pages this paper discusses reconstructionism, progressivism, essentialism, and perennialism philosophical approaches to p...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...
that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...
to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...
while in society today, the concept is well accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and ...
which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...
concept of beauty, and or, justice. To be able to re-cognize these, one must have the memory of the idea which in an intellectual...
the nineteenth century, abortion was seen as the only recourse for women who had become pregnant due to being lured into the bed o...
In five pages this paper contrasts the philosophical perspectives of Immanuel Kant with John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism. There ...
At the same time, Kant would argue that even if the final result of a mans moral choice is not positive, this does not negate his ...
In a paper consisting of five pages the concepts of human good, the 'doctrine of the mean,' and 'phronesis' as presented in Books ...
regarded as being little more than attempting to keep a pig satisfied. Because man has the intellectual capacity for reason, he s...
In five pages this paper examines ethical objectivism and ethical relativism from a philosophical perspective. Two sources are ci...
importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...
what he actually did. At the same time, it is not as if this philosopher threw out the basic tenets of reasoning. He did find it n...
who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...
human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...
as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...
the layers are slowly and systematically peeled away, revealing increasingly more of the personality of the individual (Williams, ...
the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...
ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...
childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...
conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...
life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...