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Socrates and Immanuel Kant on Lying

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

Freedom Concept of J.S. Mill

in his infamous work On Liberty, he relays that idea. Joplins idea is quite a philosophical, intangible view of freedom as it sug...

Progress Concept and On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

public opinion than when in opposition to it" (Mill 76). When assessing the notion of progress and how it related to Mills...

Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries' English Feasting History

at the high table (The Table & Table Manners, 2005). This particular table was actually much higher than, or rather raised above, ...

Knowledge According to Rene Descartes and John Locke

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

"Medea" - Treatment And Perspective Of Women

as she was forced to come face to face with her own shortcomings, which ultimately cast upon her the tragic flaw that eventually l...

Examples of Classicism And Romanticism in Literature

reflected the continued influence of the Crusades, it also sprouted a period of romanticism that was more than apparent in most ev...

Perfectly Virtuous Medieval City

to be happy, but to be happy he has to know what happiness is and how to achieve it (Alfarabi, p. 35). Here we come to the idea of...

Animal Rights Debate

She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...

Bellini, Durer, and Ribera and an Art History Examination

clearly painted religious ideals of the time. It was also a time of romantic ideals as well, and the wondrous images and colors, a...

Hobsbawm/Age of Capital

subsequent citations refer to this text). Part I contains only the first chapter, "The Springtime of the Peoples," and this rela...

Presentations of Colonialism

on the development of an exploitative tourist industry in Antigua. Achebe takes a very different perspective than Kincaid in tha...

Hawthorne/Scarlet Letter/Critical Perspectives

but while she wears a scarlet A, she changes the nature of this symbol with her needlework. She makes this A from- ...fine red clo...

Comparing the Rococo and Sensibilte Genres of Art

The author discusses how works of arts from these different eras are indeed different genres. Greuz's "Broken Eggs" can ...

Defending God's Existence Philosophically

In a paper consisting of eight pages the existence of God is predicated on philosophical as opposed to religious supporting argume...

Questions on Personal Philosophies Answered

Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...

Philosophy Questions and Religion

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

Octavio Paz: Perspective of the Colonial Period

how the peasantry had a long history of such struggles and were not new to such fights whereas "the workers lacked not only the mo...

Philosophy Topics

the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...

What Is the Objective of the Philosophical Investigation?

book by Scott Soames; he asks what 20th century analytic philosophy comes to, and reveals that "Soames thinks its two most importa...

A Personal System of Philosophy

Even in the absence of hard and fast codes of ethics such as those that exist for some professions, there are certain basic guidel...

Charlemagne's Historical Importance

one of the most important legacies left by Charlemagne involved literacy. Hartman (2006) states that with his influence, "there wa...

Questions on Investment Portfolios Answered

Citigroup is another stable share with a stable outlook and a high rating. However as well as stable shares Mitsubishi allows for...

Social Security System and Its Impacts

to restore security by those that had lost it as a result of changing lifestyles associated with their changing occupations. As f...

Property from a Philosophical Perspective

but philosophers also argue that private property rights are necessary (even when they seem unfair) "for the ethical development o...

Scope Mouthwash; Marketing Case Study

$4 million in marketing including trial samples, coupons and other promotional activities, over a 3 three month period between 199...

Teachings of the Historical Jesus

are knowledgeable about one fact of Christianity that the Christian worshipper is not, there is limited historical facts to establ...

Clothing of China

Long thought to be legendary, it has recently proven to actually have existed, but theres no information on the type of clothing w...

Philosophical Perspectives on Terrorism

attacks were largely carried out by those fighting for their freedom from a corrupt system (the Russian Revolution) or for the fre...

The Historical Significance of Black Boy by Richard Wright

they know that to rebel would be disastrous. Then, just a short while later he begins to notice, for the very first time in his...