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through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...
to Grotius more humane perspective was that of Jacques-Benigne Bossuets, who "reinforced medieval notions of kingship in his theor...
it is (L) that connects human behavior with the environment via "desires and beliefs" that the environment fosters in us (Rosenbe...
is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....
after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...
power. For example, Machiavelli points out that the ruler becomes great in the eyes of the people by overcoming difficulties and o...
that anyone of Jewish descent or faith were in terrible danger, yet they chose to stay, hoping that it would go away, or that God ...
chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...
Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Mill.htm). An advocate of this particular perspective, "Popper thought that both Mill and Comte were wrong...
been described as "hands across the color line" (Quarles 146), or a belie that, "In all things that are purely social we can be as...
upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...
by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...
unusual for a theologian (St. Thomas Aquinas, 2002). Aquinas made many significant contributions to philosophy and specifically i...
true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...
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 ...
theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...
identifies Schopenhauers most distinctive contribution to philosophy as his "insistence that Will is more basic than thought to bo...
no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
This paper will also analyze whether Tacitus was correct in his belief that judiciary freedom was ruined in the presence of the em...
the solider represents the state and the people are merely innocent bystanders. At the same time, during a draft, one could also a...
their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...
lying promise is something that is said in order to achieve a favorable outcome. What if someone has a gun to the victims childs h...
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...
ability to allow us the opportunity to interpret the rational through the concrete forms presented in art. Hegel believed that ...
modification, which dispels ignorance" (Mohanty, 2001). When we cognize we abate ignorance....
and "advisors" were, in many ways, far more powerful than the aristocrat holding office. Machiavelli himself was such a creature ...
individual who naturally believes in true equality and empowerment across the entire population. The reasons it becomes so confusi...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...