Essays 811 - 840
US manufacturing was benefiting from the attention to quality, whether specific organizations chose to implement TQM or not. Thos...
words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...
In four pages concepts of religion, God, and transcendence are considered in a comparative analysis of Kant's philosophy and Hegel...
a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs" (Thoreau 188)....
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
In the context of a greater philosophy perhaps, a philosopher says what he thinks. Yet, he is unwittingly part of a grand plan. Wh...
challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...
the effects of "Original Sin" (Hundersmarck 133). While Machiavelli agreed with this stance, he did not do so because of theology....
that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...
and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
between the patient and physician (technology, caring and values) are always present but may differ in balance. In addition, the r...
arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on his off hour...
the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...
for existence in which the fittest members of a varying population survive, reproduce, and pass on their traits to the next genera...
However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...
philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...
address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
the mind" then "no physical thing exists outside the mind" (McGreal 252). Third, primary qualities such as solidity, extension, sh...
to is none other than that of the Romantic period. The person who considered himself a romantic, too, would question some of life...
of his better known works "The Social Contract", he discusses issues involved in radical or republican thought regarding the human...
hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Andrew, but it can be assured that there is...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
This research paper examines Kant's philosophy of transcendental deduction, with a specific focus on the transcendental unity of a...
were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...
that the object of thought is capable of being. Hume understands that, quite simplistically, the soul is simply . . . the soul. ...
Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...
up with perhaps the earliest fully developed system of utilitarianism, of which two prominent features are noteworthy ("Utilitari...
about the factory workers and how they did not feel as if they accomplish anything. This idea of course was born on the backs of t...
steeled and a heart trans- formed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility" (Nietzsche, p.129). One can see tha...