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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...

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...

Developing a Personal Education Philosophy

the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse and The Trial by Franz Kafka

obviously see elements of the man who wrote the story, for Kafka is often considered to be an individual who deeply examined his w...

Legal Profession and Ethics

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

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 ...

Preemptive War and Moral Considerations

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

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...

4 Questions on Philosophy, Hobbes and Peirce

power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...

Thucydides v. Plato in Defining the Good Life

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

Philosophy and Barker's The Ghost Road and Du Maurier's Rebecca

In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...

Honesty and Ethics in Philosophy

commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...

Greek Culture and the Evolution of Science

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

Philosophy and Logos

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

Animal Rights Debate

She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

Thought without Language

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

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)....

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. ...