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Essays 1321 - 1350
just like their travel mates. As the plot unfolds, however, we find that these four have much more in common than they would care...
(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...
Within a short time however, Locke was relieved of his public duties, and left England due to the ill effects of the climate on hi...
This is particularly true for Jefferson verses Madison and Hobbes verses Locke. Despite their differences in philosophies, ...
manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...
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...
that their individual styles of approach are based in part upon significantly different gender perspectives. Like Merchant (1989)...
is of utmost importance. When ones religious practices are not allowed to be chosen but are instead dictated, the inherent faith ...
Recovering "Serious" Morality Because of Gaitas clear willingness to address what most would refer to as the "hard issues," it sh...
first place and eschewing the monetary aspect so often clouding ones ethical perspective. "Looking back now on all previous attem...
area where the mines were laid" (14). Only the most determined and profit-oriented marketer or the one with no sense of moral scru...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophies of John Rawls and John Locke regarding liberalism. Seven sources...
living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...
senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...
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the natural world. Nature, he asserts, is secretive, but at the same time it is human beings who will eventually be able to unlock...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...
the effects of "Original Sin" (Hundersmarck 133). While Machiavelli agreed with this stance, he did not do so because of theology....
that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...
and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
between the patient and physician (technology, caring and values) are always present but may differ in balance. In addition, the r...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
In the context of a greater philosophy perhaps, a philosopher says what he thinks. Yet, he is unwittingly part of a grand plan. Wh...
that created a chasm between the haves and the "have nots." With people working for the government, and each getting an equal stip...
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 ...
In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...
address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...