Essays 271 - 300
looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...
to what is art often comes up. Can the medium, or materials used-be it urine or elephant dung which modern artists have been known...
In five pages this paper examines how Plato, Aristotle, and Immanuel Kant define political thinking. Six sources are cited in the...
In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...
exists where half of the population is in ecstasy while the other half are totally miserable, this would not be desirable under th...
In seven pages this research paper examines the ethical theory of Immanuel Kant in a consideration of his lying stance. Four sour...
In nine pages a business dilemma is examined by consulting philosophers Rawls, Mill, and Kant on how to best handle the economic d...
This paper consists of five pages and applies the moral imperative of Immanuel Kant to the concept of sexuality. Four sources are...
This paper discusses the societal impacts of homosexuality according to the philosophical perspectives of John Stuart Mill and Imm...
Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...
In arguing with the Empiricists, Kant noted that the mind is necessary in order to quantify experience; that the mind isnt a blank...
actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
In a paper that contains eight pages the motive for the existence of advertising through profit and persuasion are examined within...
In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...
In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...
In five pages this paper offers a comparative analysis of the moral philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill. Four sour...
the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...
rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...
particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...
In six pages the media coverage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is evaluated in terms of ethics and then applies the p...
knowledge and that the tabula rasa hypothesis is a bit outdated, but he rarely goes beyond that. Some seek to validate the...
In 6 pages this paper examines how these philosophers regarded national law and the social contracts of man in a comparison and co...
In 5 pages this paper examines the Enlightenment contributions made by Kant regarding morality concepts, Wollstonecraft regarding ...
In this paper consisting of twenty pages questions regarding such influential philosophers as Robert Nozick, Mary Daly, the Stoics...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Caucasian and Mexican American cultural views regarding adultery and divorce and t...
In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...
In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...