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considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

while in society today, the concept is well accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and ...

biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...

worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...

which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...

permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

the "moral" issues which have been registered in regards to two or more human sharing the same genetic code (DNA). This cannot pro...

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...

other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

morning and be blown up on a bus or go to a discotheque and be killed in an explosion. These are not unusual scenarios there. For ...

of wildlife and marine life are being endangered as well. Business must make a better effort to solve pollution problems not simp...

certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

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

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

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

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...