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An Exploration of Consciousness

It is not the awareness, however, which overrides the ignorance, it is the cognition (Mohanty, 2001). Knowledge in this regard ca...

Marx and Weber and the Origins of Capitalism

if the Weber model is correct. Kilcullen points out that Weber "was perhaps the first great master of the major institutional fac...

Choosing a Philosopher

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

Seltzer's Serial Killers

that society, or the perpetrators parents, should not be blamed for any horrific acts. The offender is the only one that someone s...

"Ferris Bueller" and Four Ethical Traditions

when Jesus says that "He has not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it."4 Theologians argue over the correct interpretation ...

Ethics, Justice, Love, Virtue and the Death Penalty

(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...

Bertrand Russell: The Value Of Philosophy

third wife and third child come a year apart between 1936 and 1937, while his next publication - A History of Western Philosophy -...

Love According to Soren Kierkegaard’s Works of Love

It is the spiritual and unconditional love for another person. The self, in essence, must be entirely removed from the equation. ...

'Good Life' According to Socrates

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

Love Theories

to break up that civilization into smaller units. The point being, love is doomed because society requires multiple, sanitized re...

Dying and Death Readings

he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...

Philosophy and Logos

persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...

Death Definition That is Currently Accepted

once again began drawing air into his lungs illustrates how this is not necessarily a definitive component of being dead. As such...

Justifying the Iraq War Philosophically

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

Functionalism and Representationalism

the role it plays, in the cognitive system of which it is a part (Levin, 2004). Functionalism is an opinion about the nature of m...

Accommodations for Disability

should be accompanied by a synchronized text transcript (closed captioning) and audio announcements should also have a synchronize...

Evaluating the Dualism of Rene Descartes

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

Justice, Murderers, Susan Glaspell's Trifles and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

Socrates' Life and Contributions to Philosophy

(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...

Socrates and Immanuel Kant on Lying

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

Nursing Ethics

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

"Faust" and "Madame Bovary"

who is, for a good many people, the most entertaining character in the play. Mephistopheles manipulates Faust so that he "loves an...

Proslogion By Anselm Of Canterbury

his original conclusion that God exists, a being greater than can be conceived. Question: Is this a devotional work or a philoso...

White Noise by DeLillo

information we get today, seems to argues such things as the benefits of something but the dangers of that same item. Today people...

Fallacious, Informal Proof Argument Defending A Grade

a B by virtue of having the same answers as the student who actually did his own work on the final (Cohen, 2004)....

Perfectly Virtuous Medieval City

to be happy, but to be happy he has to know what happiness is and how to achieve it (Alfarabi, p. 35). Here we come to the idea of...

Thought without Language

to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...

An Ethical Model for Teaching

AIDS education is something tied to a disease that has only surfaced at the end of the twentieth century and may have no relevance...

Business Ethics and Moral Issue

reason" (Schlumpf 59). In modern society, there are enormous pressures that tempt business people to take shortcuts in order to ...

Questions on Aristotle and Hobbes

Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...