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on actions, then the argument would end there. Utilitarianism, therefore, is their effect on society and the world at large. Actio...
If we accept the premise, therefore, that science is capable of defining physiological death then we must ask ourselves how do we ...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...
He sought not to try to make people feel any better about themselves or the world in which they lived aside from empowering them t...
identifies Schopenhauers most distinctive contribution to philosophy as his "insistence that Will is more basic than thought to bo...
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...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
some sort of graft then the government will also. Socrates, if one reads any of Platos works, seems to be a...
This is particularly true for Jefferson verses Madison and Hobbes verses Locke. Despite their differences in philosophies, ...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
the mind" then "no physical thing exists outside the mind" (McGreal 252). Third, primary qualities such as solidity, extension, sh...
in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...
truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...
stronger. The authors make no comment on whether any of the individuals were concerned about becoming dependent on their pa...
Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...
In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...
their anxiety in significantly negative ways. Diversity in the type of sport is yet another critical consideration when it comes ...
for existence in which the fittest members of a varying population survive, reproduce, and pass on their traits to the next genera...
were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...
In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
the effects of "Original Sin" (Hundersmarck 133). While Machiavelli agreed with this stance, he did not do so because of theology....
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
In the context of a greater philosophy perhaps, a philosopher says what he thinks. Yet, he is unwittingly part of a grand plan. Wh...
modification, which dispels ignorance" (Mohanty, 2001). When we cognize we abate ignorance....
to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...
her actions as an individual and as a member of the military? Or is there a different moral principle at play? Only Hester can say...