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commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...

administration that is tied to a clandestine love affair. Forbes prints a small article regarding another type of conflict of inte...

the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...

holds that terms such as "good" and "right" are defined on the basis of which behavior provides the greatest benefit to the larges...

exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...

where nothing detrimental occurs. In fact, Fast Company publishes ethical problems and lies that contributors send in on an annual...

power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

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

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

it will occur; which leads to the Conclusion: "no action is free" (Cahn, 1971, 39). Hard determinism argues that these two premi...

the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...

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

is the part of a wise man to believe them no further than right reason makes that which they say appear credible." In other words...

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

what he actually did. At the same time, it is not as if this philosopher threw out the basic tenets of reasoning. He did find it n...

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...

the layers are slowly and systematically peeled away, revealing increasingly more of the personality of the individual (Williams, ...

the universe, in which human beings are pictured a being at the top of the pyramid to one that sees life as an expanding circle th...

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

first of all, wherever friendship or community flourishes, justice doesnt - and when this fades, justice becomes more important. S...

writer/tutor reviews Staels text in chronological order, the student researching this topic may wish to contrast and compare the ...

natures regiment. As such, familiarity does not lend itself to unaccountability or being troublesome to understand. Why, then, w...

2004). John Stuart Mills, in his book Utilitarianism, further stated that not all forms of pleasure were of equal value (Free-Defi...

of the patient (beneficence); * does not perform functions that can do harm to the patient (non-malficence); * practice fairness...

to heart disease and diabetes (Webster, 1999). Thanks to biogenetics, in fact, researchers can grow human cells in the laboratory ...