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

corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

saying the above statement. The names change and the nature of the addiction changes with the substance, but the goal and reward ...

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...

the reader into the oppressive world of slavery. Indeed, it was the authors desire to bring attention to the injustices faced by ...

strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...

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...

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 ...

Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Mill.htm). An advocate of this particular perspective, "Popper thought that both Mill and Comte were wrong...

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...

the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...

(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...

being destroyed, ironically enough, by the very systems designed to preserve them. In his book, he manages to leave no one in th...

most general - or universal - aspect of things" (Definition of Philosophy). These studies, the definition continues, are not carri...

contributions to ethical and social theory" (Anonymous John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, 2002; MILL.HTM). In his work "Principles of ...

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

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...

Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...

by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...

that is good. The sun is going down, and it is cold, so that is bad. Evil is something much worse than bad. Obviously, a setting s...

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, ...

standing and he is awarded a full scholarship to a prestigious black college. This of course doesnt last long, as through a serie...

from a state of freedom to a willingness to submit to the states authority? This is the underlying question in the majority of hi...

(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...