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Ongoing Debate on Stem Cell Research

they could utilize embryos that are not in use. Tens of thousands of embryos are stored in clinics in the United States and some a...

Moral Defects and Virtues

be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...

Morality and Cardinal Virtues

In five pages this paper examines a moral life in a consideration of the significant cardinal virtues of justice and temperance. ...

Pride According to Aristotle

In an essay that consists of five pages Aristotle's lofty view of pride as the ultimate virtue is discussed within the context of ...

Dinesh D'souza's The Virtue of Prosperity

In six pages this paper discusses the 'new prosperity' as discussed by Dinesh D'souza in The Virtue of Prosperity. There is one s...

Overview of the Athenian Doctrine

In eight pages this paper examines the Athenian doctrine or thesis in a consideration of Athens' and Sparta's motivations and virt...

Kantian Concept Happiness and Metaphysics of Morals

In five pages this paper discusses happiness and virtue as these concepts relate to Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant. Three...

Eudaemonia Concept of Aristotle

This paper discusses Richard Kraut's commentary on the intellectual elitism of Aristotle an defines virtue in this overview of Ari...

Philosophers and Their Weak and Strong Theories

In six pages this paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various philosophical theories with the utilitarianism of John S...

7 Cardinal Virtues and 7 Deadly Sins

In a research paper consisting of 6 pages, what served as the Middle Ages' Christian dogma of seven cardinal virtues and seven dea...

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Human Nature and Society

This paper examines how the human concept of virtue and its pursuit influence human nature and society within the context of the t...

Marcia Baron, Philip Pettit, and Michel Slote on Three Methods of Ethics

This paper consists of five pages and contrasts and compares Baron's Kantian views, Pettit's consequentialist persperspectives, an...

Dialogue Between Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates on Virtue and Vice in Daily Life

In five pages this paper examines a hypothetical contemporary dialogue between these 3 philosophers on how daily life features vir...

Humanity and the Construct of Virtue and Vice

This paper considers whether or not virtue and vice are constructs of the human condition in five pages. Five sources are cited i...

Book 4 of Plato's Republic, 'Justice of the City'

what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...

Objectivism versus Spirituality in Works by Ayn Rand and Simone Weil

In five pages this paper contrasts the differences between these two philosophies as represented in the texts The Virtue of Selfis...

Justice Rules and David Hume

In five pages this report assesses David Hume's attitudes regarding jusice and examines why he labels it as an artificial virtue b...

Literary Analysis of 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell

art is directed at a woman with whom he so desires to have a romantic affair. In his attempts to persuade her to consent, he pain...

Sentiment and Reason According to Adam Smith and Aristotle

existing moral standard. This fact should be kept in mind in understanding that for Aristotle whether a certain kind of behavior w...

Origins of Moral Virtue

as it applies to moral virtue is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotation to its concept; howeve...

Society and Freedom According to John Stuart Mill

Still, most Americans see themselves as free and voice their opinions loudly. What does this mean exactly? Is it the same freedom ...

Values, Virtues, and the Poetry of Robert Frost

was someone who, as Derek Walcott classified him, was ". . . the icon of Yankee values, the smell of wood smoke, the sparkle of de...

2 Essays in Christina and Fred Sommers' Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life

women, including approved activities, mannerism, education, sexuality and religious pursuits, as well as the extent to which there...

Meno and Plato's Arguments

they have experienced the fact that the truth simply is and is not an "issue" or understanding that can be discovered. "Meno" As ...

Examination of Courtly Love

where a distinct division of power was responsible for the tapering affect that cascaded throughout each districts diversity of au...

Aristotle's Concepts of Virtue and Happiness

into two intellectual worlds. Aristotle goes on to explain: " but with regard to what happiness is they differ, and the many do n...

Moral Virtues of Benjamin Franklin

chastity and humility. He listed them subjectively, in what he regarded as their order of importance. But out of all these lauda...

Plato's Republic and Five Essay Questions

self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...

Yearley's Religious Plurality Perspectives in 'New Religious Virtues and the Study of Religion'

having inherent familiarity and truth, and others as alien in the sense of irrevocably different, and tempting in the sense that o...

Happiness and Virtue According to Boethius

reversals of fortune, illness, accidents and other events which contribute to their unhappiness. At the same time, the "evil m...