Essays 1981 - 2010
This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...
In seven pages this paper discusses private property in a discussion of social contract theory, the views of Rousseau, Hobbes, and...
This research paper addresses eight specific quetions, offering answers, concerning issues that pertain to Kant, Mill and Aristotl...
In eight pages this paper defends Plato's assertion regarding the immortality of the human soul with references made to his text P...
In five pages the sense of wonder Descartes conjures in his Third Meditation regarding the existence of God is examined. There ar...
and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging ent...
In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...
the many delights of civilization, and thus showing Enkidu this type of pleasure is important (PG). Enkidu himself however sees i...
and the natural rights that inherently accompany such ownership. Within the realm of life exists inherent elements to ones existe...
In seven pages this research paper examines the ethical theory of Immanuel Kant in a consideration of his lying stance. Four sour...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Socrates' views on morality with those of Friedrich Nietzsche as expressed in Birt...
This paper examines the true meaning of the very vague word, good. The author points out that the word has two separate and unique...
In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...
reason (Anonymous, 2001, April 16). Utilitarianism Utilitarianism, on the other hand, is an approach to morality that was devel...
have groomed themselves for heaven. They have made sure to live clean lives so their souls will be saved. Agnostics and atheists e...
In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...
In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...
what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...
texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...
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...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...
in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...
In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...
of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...
constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...