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to heart disease and diabetes (Webster, 1999). Thanks to biogenetics, in fact, researchers can grow human cells in the laboratory ...
2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...
the universe, in which human beings are pictured a being at the top of the pyramid to one that sees life as an expanding circle th...
interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...
first of all, wherever friendship or community flourishes, justice doesnt - and when this fades, justice becomes more important. S...
writer/tutor reviews Staels text in chronological order, the student researching this topic may wish to contrast and compare the ...
What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...
of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...
However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
morning and be blown up on a bus or go to a discotheque and be killed in an explosion. These are not unusual scenarios there. For ...
Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...
certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...
is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...
ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...
to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...
biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...
that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...
while in society today, the concept is well accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and ...
considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...
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...
In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...
well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...
defines pornography, which is that they do not know what it is, but they know it when they see it (11). Similarly, it is not out o...
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...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...