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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...

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 ...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...

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

In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...

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

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

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...

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

achieve this level of human excellence by adhering to the fourteen axioms acts of Nicomachean Ethics, which included gentility, ho...

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

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...

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...

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...