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Male Sexual Harassment

In seven pages this paper discusses how contemporary society defines sexual harassment and considers how the law addresses victimi...

No Contest by Alfie Kohn

In a paper consisting of five pages the advantages to personal and business relationships offered by eliminating competition accor...

Aristotle and the Moral Law of Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper examines the individual rights' differences in opinion between Aristotle and Kant and considers how Kant ...

Supreme Principle of Morality by Immanuel Kant

In six pages this research paper defines morality within the context of Kant's philosophy and also considers supreme morality's va...

Improving Rene Descartes' Psychology Limitations with the 'Conscious Mental State' of William James

In two pages this paper examines how William James sought to improve upon Descartes' seventeenth century psychological philosophy ...

Human Nature as Perceived by Rene Descartes

In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...

Ford Pinto Case and the Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant

In ten pages this paper discusses the rights and virtue theories as well as utilitarianism, cost benefit analysis, ethics, solutio...

Analysis of Rene Descartes' Two Meditations

In five pages two of Descartes' arguments are analyzed in terms of the nature of object existence and the determination of dreamin...

Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau

In two pages Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau is analyzed. There are no other sources cited....

Concepts of Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Immanuel Kant

de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...

How Culture and History Influenced the Philosophical Perspectives of William James and Rene Descartes

In two pages this paper examines how the philosophies of these two theorists were influenced by history and their respective cultu...

Euthyphro by Plato and the Reactions of David Hume and Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...

Arguments Presented in the 2 Prefaces of Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

In four pages this paper analyzes the 2 prefaces' argument and their necessity. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Meditations on the First Philosophy by Rene Descartes and 'Freeing the Mind'

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

Searle's Disagreement with the Mind Philosophy of Rene Descartes

In six pages Descartes' arguments regarding reality and existence as revealed in Meditations are examined along with Searle's obje...

Knowledge As Viewed by Rene Descartes

it is thought to be an intuition in respect to "ones own reality" (2003). It is in essence "an expression of the indubitability of...

Friedrich Nietzsche and Rene Descartes on Truth

and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...

Rationalism and the Concepts of Rene Descartes and David Hume

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

'Good Life' and the Philosophies of Albert Camus, Rene Descartes, and Plato

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant and the Ford Motor Company's Pinto

how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...

Overview of Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

Rene Descartes and David Hume on Knowledge

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

Life and Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...

Knowledge, Sensation, Plato and Rene Descartes

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

Comparative Analysis of Spinoza's Dual Monism and Rene Descartes Mind and Body Interactionism

having been created by a supreme and ethereal being, whose own creation is inherent to that of all He created. Based upon his def...

Rene Descartes and Aristotle on Knowledge

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

Dreaming Argument of Rene Descartes Analyzed by Norman Malcolm

Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...

Overview of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

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

Immanuel Kant on Morality

is the act of lying. Suppose one is held hostage in a similar situation as the one described, but the victim does not have to do a...

Value Theory of Immanuel Kant

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...