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Progress Concept and On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

public opinion than when in opposition to it" (Mill 76). When assessing the notion of progress and how it related to Mills...

Freedom Concept of J.S. Mill

in his infamous work On Liberty, he relays that idea. Joplins idea is quite a philosophical, intangible view of freedom as it sug...

A Justification of Alien Abductioins from a Utilitarian Perspective

holds that terms such as "good" and "right" are defined on the basis of which behavior provides the greatest benefit to the larges...

Cases of Conflict of Interest

administration that is tied to a clandestine love affair. Forbes prints a small article regarding another type of conflict of inte...

Text Analysis of 'Evil in Modern Thought An Alternative History of Philosophy' by Susan Neiman

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...

Schools R Us and Analysis of Business Ethics Case Study

where nothing detrimental occurs. In fact, Fast Company publishes ethical problems and lies that contributors send in on an annual...

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...

Education, Knowledge, the Human Soul, and Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave'

the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...

Libertarianism and Hard Determinism

it will occur; which leads to the Conclusion: "no action is free" (Cahn, 1971, 39). Hard determinism argues that these two premi...

Happiness As Defined by Aristotle, Is It Still Relevant?

achieve this level of human excellence by adhering to the fourteen axioms acts of Nicomachean Ethics, which included gentility, ho...

Revolution Justification Argued by John Locke

what he actually did. At the same time, it is not as if this philosopher threw out the basic tenets of reasoning. He did find it n...

Monism and Pluralism

by the theory of monism (Turner). The greatest strength of monism appears to be its simplicity: it admits of only one underlying c...

Philosophical Proofs for the Existence of God

cosmological argument. As mentioned above, an ontological approach uses a deductive argument which "claims that its premises can b...

Epochs

knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...

The Absurd

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

Implications of Fertility Drug Usage

In five pages the medical ethics, theological, and philosophical issues associated with fertility drug usage are explored. Fourte...

Watership Down by Richard Adams and Home

In eight pages this paper considers how home is transferred from a physical to philosophical sense in this postmodern novel. Ther...

A Speech Inspired by Anna Sewell's Black Beauty

In this paper consisting of three pages an animal fable speech that mirrors the literary style of the novel features similar word ...

Contemporary Thinking and the Influence of Existentialism, Romanticism, and the Enlightenment

In five pages this report explores how the schools of philosophical thought that characterized the Enlightenment have influenced c...

History and Philosophy of the Federal Rerserve

Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, Dallas, San Francisco, St. Louis, and Kansas City (50). Each of ...

David Hume on Causation and Rational Belief

In three pages this paper discusses David Hume's philosophical belief that causation laid the foundation for rational belief with ...

Morality and Ethics

consider the fact that when one stretches his ethical judgment and attempts to justify an immoral act, it can be argued that there...

Jean Jacques Rousseau's Political and Philosophical Zenith Reached in The Social Contract

This report discusses Rousseau's writing of The Social Contract and what it reflects about his political philosophical development...

Ethical Egoism

"the agent ought to promote the self above other values" (Moseley, 2006). This is not as ugly as it sounds: it goes all the way ba...

The Justin Ellsworth Case (Analysis)

in his account when he passed away. The email provider Yahoo claimed that due to a terms of service agreement, they could not allo...

John Stuart Mill Arguing in Favor of Legalizing Marijuana

In five pages the philosophical concepts of John Stuart Mill are used to argue in support of U.S. marijuana legalization. Three s...

Human Nature According to Edmund Burke and Karl Marx

In six pages this paper discusses human nature from the philosophical perspectives of Karl Marx and Edmund Burke in a consideratio...

Government According to John Locke, Karl Marx, and Jean Jacques Rousseau

In five pages the concept of government is discussed in a contrast and comparison of the philosophical views offered by Marx and R...

'Philo Counselor' Article Reviewed

This paper reviews a Psychology Today article in two pages and discusses how the traditional psychologist differs from the more ph...

Universal Natural Order

In three pages this paper argues in favor of a natural order to the universe from philosophical, social, and scientific viewpoints...