YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :2 Philosophical Questions Examined
Essays 541 - 570
manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...
of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...
2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...
anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....
with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...
action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...
keep it alive" (Christian Answers to Moral Problems, 2002). Furthermore, in their article entitled "Letting Handicapped ...
the fetus. Pro-choice individuals often argue that the fetus is nothing more than a part of the womans body, with no more signific...
that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...
"hoppers" and "superpredators" (Wagner, 2001). And during one week in California, youth committed heinous crimes including one 15-...
political ends, one should do so through peace and peaceful activism, and not through violence. There were many other philosophica...
the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...
is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...
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...
Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...
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...
and Cavaliers differ somewhat from those that are associated with Europe. What we most often remember in America is the differenc...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
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 five pages a philosophical explanation of world events is attempted and the Pakistani position following the World Trade Center...
How evil evolved in Christian beliefs is the focus of this paper consisting of ten pages and how evil has changed in terms of soci...
particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...
what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...
Sisyphus himself perceives his condition....
world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...