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America's Civil War, Literature, and Art

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

Considerations on France by Joseph de Maistre

his own mind is anarchy. "The churches are closed, or opened only for the noisy discussions and drunken revels of a frenzied peopl...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and the Influence of Charles Darwin

notch to become a tale about the near-extinction of a species - that is, the family called the DUrbervilles - and how they attempt...

Alienation in The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Without the pressures of the capitalist system, Marx was of the opinion that work could make a valuable contribution to the labour...

Are Principles Chosen or Inherited?

the society and, subsequently, from the self. Sartres concept of alienation was certainly different from Marxs. Of course, Mar...

Concept of the Divine Right Of Kings

to Grotius more humane perspective was that of Jacques-Benigne Bossuets, who "reinforced medieval notions of kingship in his theor...

Social Science Predictability According to Alexander Rosenberg

it is (L) that connects human behavior with the environment via "desires and beliefs" that the environment fosters in us (Rosenbe...

Inability to Ever Justify Cheating

to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...

People as The Ends and Means of Actions and the Theories of Rawls, Nozick, and Kant

through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...

Aristotle and Plato

theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...

Lev Vygotsky's Educational Theories

of achieving either on his own, with the aid of a teacher, or with the help of another more accomplished peer.(Zone, 2002). The st...

European Countries' Differences

usually associated with the Roman Catholic Pope, his presence does not seem to effect the laws of the government as women in Ital...

Biology from Philosophical Perspectives

In contrast to the views of genic selectionists, then, developmental systems theory has been proposed as a way of incororating and...

Philosophical Theory, Causality, and Substance

said that one can easily recognize in an educated mind the ability to entertain a thought without accepting it; Aristotle taught t...

Comparative Analysis of John Locke and Niccolo Machiavelli

This paper contrasts and compares the political philosophies of theorists John Locke and Niccolo Machiavelli in 5 pages. Two sour...

Metaphysics As a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch

looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...

Moral Theories of Aristotle and John Stuart Mill

In five pages this paper discusses Aristotle and J.S. Mill in a contrast and comparison of their moral philosophies. Two sources ...

Abortion According to Utilitarianism and Kantian Ethics

(Larue, 1998). This value determination was given a moral rationalization and basis through interpretations of scripture and relig...

Human Understanding According to David Hume

determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...

The Sea Wolf by Jack London and Free Will

are intellectuals. There is an eclectic group and this sets the stage for many ideas to be broached. There are several external al...

Needs of Society and Individualism

the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...

Epistemology and Descartes

might Descartes for example deal with the problem? A student writing on this subject will want to point out that the primary dilem...

911, the Media, and Ethics

In six pages the media coverage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is evaluated in terms of ethics and then applies the p...

Ethical Theories of David Hume

for others, such as Bentham and Mill. One of the positions for which Hume is famous is that we cannot derive ought from is, in oth...

Saint Thomas Aquinas on Knowledge

professor is a good example of the difference between intellectual knowledge and sense knowledge. To take that a step beyond, and ...

Comparing Buddhism and Christianity

01B). As a people, Christians are bound by the convictions that they are to possess honesty, respectfulness, charity, kindness an...

Crime Deterrence Through Harsher Punishment

these facts: * Homicide rates increased sharply beginning about 1965 or 1966. The number of executions plummeted from 47 in 1962 t...

Marx, Machiavelli, and Hobbes

that man must first display characteristics that are shaped by his own masculine perspective. Machiavelli considered the nature o...

Theories of Henrik Ibsen and Soren Kierkegaard

This paper examines concepts of paradox and passion, women's social position, and individual autonomy in the philosophy of Soren K...

Ongoing Debate on Stem Cell Research

they could utilize embryos that are not in use. Tens of thousands of embryos are stored in clinics in the United States and some a...