Essays 691 - 720
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...
In five pages this paper applies the philosophical concepts of these thinkers to the works of performing artist Sinead O'Connor. ...
what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...
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...
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 ...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...
exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives, which help maintain order and a sense of direction that otherwise woul...
II. Facts of the Case The case in question was presented to Lord Justice Ward, Lord Justice Brooke and Lord Justice Robert Wal...
In six pages this paper examines the philosophical attempts to reconcile morality and law in a consideration of such theorists as ...
In six pages this paper discusses evil in the world in a consideration of philosophical perspectives offered in the Bible, Night b...
In ten pages this research paper advocates an abridgement to the 1st Amendment that would prohibit hate speech in the U.S. with a ...
Reasonableness of Christianity, An Essay Concerning Toleration, and the Consequences of Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value...
The writer looks at how the concept of the truth is perceived and the role of the truth in research. The concept of the truth is e...
In six pages the philosophical perspectives of Epicurus and Socrates among others are applied to a human sexuality interpretation....
In twenty pages U.S. health care is examined within philosophical, legal, and historical contexts to evaluate the effects of vario...
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at the moral obligations of pharmaceutical companies. Philosophical arguments are made t...
by the theory of monism (Turner). The greatest strength of monism appears to be its simplicity: it admits of only one underlying c...
cosmological argument. As mentioned above, an ontological approach uses a deductive argument which "claims that its premises can b...
knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...
Moltmann's ideas are used to incite discussion on time and space issues in this paper of fourteen pages with time defined and the ...
to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...
the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...