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In five pages this group and its political, philosophical, and religious concepts past and present are compared and contrasted. F...

This 3 page paper gives a detailed analysis of Justice Thurgood Marshall's philosophical rejection of capital punishment,w hich he...

In four pages the death penalty is analyzed within the concept of various philosophies such as 'an eye for an eye' and provides an...

In seventeen pages this paper examines the philosophical concept of evil and then considers 'necessary evil' within the contexts o...

In eight pages this paper discusses reconstructionism, progressivism, essentialism, and perennialism philosophical approaches to p...

assignment to the highest post in the state which could be obtained by a commoner such as himself (Owen, 1997). In...

In five pages Arthur Waley's text is applied to a discussion of Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism within the context of categoriz...

In six pages this paper examines the philosophical similarities and differences between Suzuki Roshi's and Immanuel Kant's theorie...

In five pages the march by the Chinese Communists over five thousand miles is examined in terms of philosophical considerations, c...

million are without water" (Jackson 20). All of these people are starving. In West Africa, the poverty is so severe that violenc...

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

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

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

We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...

which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...

other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

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

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

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

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

Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...

while in society today, the concept is well accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and ...

that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...

our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...