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William Godwin's Idealism

In eight pages the idealistic philosophy of William Godwin is examined. Four sources are listed in the bibliography....

Belief and Disbelief in an 'Accidental Century'

and the use of technology in the form of the atomic bomb laid waste to the concept of an egalitarian Utopia. The postwar world us...

Jay Gatsby's Personal Philosophy in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...

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 ...

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...

Marx, Machiavelli, and Hobbes

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

The Picture of Dorian Gray Characters' Approach to Art and Life

and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...

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...

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...

Comparing Buddhism and Christianity

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

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...

Industrial Pollution and Moral Philosophy

a toxic substance. When corporations repeatedly break the rules regarding environmental protection, it says in a very loud voice ...

The Matrix Film and Philosophies

In five pages this paper discusses the philosophies of Locke and Berkeley featured in The Matrix film as they pertain to the mater...

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...

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...

Morality According to Kant and Mill

In five pages this paper offers a comparative analysis of the moral philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill. Four sour...

Modern Leadership and Niccolo Machiavelli's Philosophy

is not a description of Washington, D.C., in the late 20th century but representative of early 16th century Italy. "The Prince" ...

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...

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...

Ancient Greece's Pre-Socratic Philosophy

In five pages this report discusses the pre Socratic ancient Greek philosophy of seventh century BC Ionia. Three sources are cite...

Civil War Era as Portrayed in the Literature of Frederick Douglass and Nathaniel Hawthorne

came replete with very definite opinions on the war and the factors behind it which interlaced the everyday lives of both the comm...

Existence and the Philosophies of Simon de Beauvoir, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Rawls, and William James

were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...

Skeptical Human Understanding of David Hume

that the object of thought is capable of being. Hume understands that, quite simplistically, the soul is simply . . . the soul. ...

Lewis Mumford, A Life by Donald Miller

gave the commencement speech at his daughters graduation from Radcliffe, he concisely summed up the essence of what he found to be...

Moral Philosophy and Evolutionary Theory

for existence in which the fittest members of a varying population survive, reproduce, and pass on their traits to the next genera...