Essays 541 - 570
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
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 ...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...
our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...
to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...
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...
while in society today, the concept is well accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and ...
In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...
(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...
if the Weber model is correct. Kilcullen points out that Weber "was perhaps the first great master of the major institutional fac...
fully clothed to completely nude was a symbol in and of itself: Aphrodite had begun a journey exemplifying female physical beauty,...
third wife and third child come a year apart between 1936 and 1937, while his next publication - A History of Western Philosophy -...
It is not the awareness, however, which overrides the ignorance, it is the cognition (Mohanty, 2001). Knowledge in this regard ca...
It is the spiritual and unconditional love for another person. The self, in essence, must be entirely removed from the equation. ...
Many contend that while God is all good, man has free will and brings the suffering on himself. At the same time, animals cannot r...
the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...
tendencies within society and the fact that people are far too concerned with their own well being to fend for those who cannot fe...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...
personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...
Sisyphus himself perceives his condition....
Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...
particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...