Essays 421 - 450
action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...
and nurses often object to actively participating in active euthanasia on the basis of their professional codes which explicitly p...
the most heavily debated political and ideological programs in the history of the world. Established by Mao Tse-Tung as a reaction...
way of the World explains what a Junzi does when it comes to the dealings of this world Applying the third of Confucius philosop...
world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...
political ends, one should do so through peace and peaceful activism, and not through violence. There were many other philosophica...
also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...
the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...
consider that if an entity, such as a nation, is to grow and become prosperous there will be enemies and as such perhaps war is es...
avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...
education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relati...
the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...
doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...
This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...
well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...
defines pornography, which is that they do not know what it is, but they know it when they see it (11). Similarly, it is not out o...
not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...
We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...
with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...
In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
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 ...