YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :2 Philosophical Questions Examined
Essays 271 - 300
the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...
importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...
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 ...
biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...
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...
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...
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...
This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...
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...
considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...
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...
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...
childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...
Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...
avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...
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...
also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...
for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...
what the concept of rights truly meant to the populace as a whole, with his general consensus reflecting the respect for and appre...
In six pages this paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various philosophical theories with the utilitarianism of John S...
Damiens, was executed in this manner on March 2, 1757. The records of this execution appear to be quite detailed, as Foucault rela...
In five pages this essay examines this philosophical text in terms of how it portrays the correlation between the natural world an...
In eight pages this paper examines Socrates' philosophical views on self examination and the importance of motivation within the i...