Essays 511 - 540
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...
considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...
top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...
In five pages society's incorporation of religion is discussed in terms of several philosophical views that include mainstream rel...
of the group. Some groups, as in organization, are sometimes referred to as parties, Weber seems to state. Mostly, parties aim fo...
of the Catholic Church. MacIntyre introduces his principal thesis in Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by pointing out that form...
The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...
state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...
the text should fit the music, not the other way around. His opera, La Nozza de Figaro, while following the parameters of the comi...
our manner of interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or ...
the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...
There are many easily-identifiable situations in which an individual may have intention to act but cannot follow through with the ...
support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
the "moral" issues which have been registered in regards to two or more human sharing the same genetic code (DNA). This cannot pro...
to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...
the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...
in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
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...
to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...
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 ...
In five pages the philosophical and autobiographical aspects of this text are analyzed in five pages. Four sources are cited in t...
In five pages this paper examines the ethics of testing a child for this rare and fatal condition using Kantian and utilitarian ph...
This 7 page paper explores three different philosophical concents: the design theory, Kant's theories of knowledge and Plato's ide...