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an ends justify the means ideology. To Machiavelli, justice has to do with an end. One can take Machiavellis concept a bit furthe...

Nozicks Theory of Justice presents a strong argument for the libertarian view. This view honors property rights, that is, that in...

actually been a supporter of revolution in the American colonies. Burke certainly believed in individual rights, but he stressed t...

a desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...

of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

namely that similarities between myths count the most, that myth must be interpreted nonliterally and that religions, for the most...

children simply adopt and internalize the standards they are taught by their parents but Kohlberg found that children make moral j...

Christianity was based upon a vast compilation of both positive and negative influences acquired from the short-sightedness of pow...

In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

as a problem (Frost, 1962). However, later philosophers, as they pondered the nature of the universe, began to see the fact of cha...

held the belief that morality was performed because of the will of an "other," rather than driven by the beast within (The Philoso...

one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...

know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

Hence, it is not unexpected that philosophers throughout the ages have also had different thoughts on freedom. While many people,...

considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...

with the absolute. Nagarjuna disagreed with this sense of absolutism. Nagarjuna philosophy can also be distinguished from mainst...

is aligned with the fact that people are alone all of the time because no one can experience what they are experiencing exactly. I...

In six pages this paper examines morality as represented by utilitarianism and as conceptualized by philosophers including Carol G...

In ten pages this paper discusses how contrary to popular opinion Nietzsche actually supports rather than rejects the man's need f...

In eight pages Jean Jacques Rousseau's life and times are examined. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

This text is analyzed in a paper consisting of five pages which considers how in economics capitalism prevailed over communism. T...

someone unfamiliar with the field of economics. The works which are introduced range from the earliest economic thought found in...

In twenty pages this paper discusses the failed efforts of Plato to sufficiently train Dionysus the Younger to become a philosophe...

The ancient Greek arche concept is compared with Plato's soul concept in an argument that contends Plato's conflict resolution of ...