YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Philosophical Approach to Animal Rights
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not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
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...
tendencies within society and the fact that people are far too concerned with their own well being to fend for those who cannot fe...
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...
lie to the police, and fabricate "evidence," in order to protect her daughter from possible harm? Or, should she allow her daughte...
have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...
(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...
does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...
2002). It is the dominant religion in India and Nepal Dating back to prehistoric times, it is no surprise that Hinduism has had a...
keep it alive" (Christian Answers to Moral Problems, 2002). Furthermore, in their article entitled "Letting Handicapped ...
2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...
"hoppers" and "superpredators" (Wagner, 2001). And during one week in California, youth committed heinous crimes including one 15-...
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...
and nurses often object to actively participating in active euthanasia on the basis of their professional codes which explicitly p...
the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
who consistently place the needs of others above their own. The individuals who do this seemingly so naturally often can be diffi...
In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...
commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
steeled and a heart trans- formed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility" (Nietzsche, p.129). One can see tha...
human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...