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In a paper consisting of seven pages the concept of marriage rooted in friendship is a view shared by Barbara Whitehead and Aristo...

if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...

In five pages this paper examines what it means 'to be' in a consideration of the philosophical debate on existence between Aristo...

are the core of moral tradition as defined within the context of societal constraints. Most people associate moral tradition with...

Plato's Apology is examined in 5 pages in a structural and rhetorical analysis of the philosopher's defense of his teacher Socrate...

ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...

the civilization that had sprung up, flourished for centuries, and now stood on the brink of massive change in his native land of ...

2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...

This paper discusses Richard Kraut's commentary on the intellectual elitism of Aristotle an defines virtue in this overview of Ari...

In six pages this paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various philosophical theories with the utilitarianism of John S...

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

correct them by illustrating how values are an integral component of personhood. Indeed, it can readily be argued how the concept...

support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...

that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

In twelve pages Plato's dialogues The Republic, Phaedrus, and Gorgias are examined in an analysis of how the philosopher conceptua...

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

(Spinks, 2003). Spinks (2003) writes: "Nietzsches immoral philosophy seeks to overcome the reactive morality of good and evil impo...

distinguishes between the activities of the practical and intellectual virtues, with the activities of political virtue having a s...

mean "The Way and its Power" (Rasmussen, 2002). The philosophy which would result did so in direct response to a number of social...

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

what is real and what is perceived, and the one is not dependent on the other. Naturalism states that it is the laws of nature whi...

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...