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Super Size Me

would likely influence people to eat differently. This viewer was just further convinced of how horrible fast food can be for many...

Nature's Importance

case where an assignment of value to something that man generally does not have to pay for occurs, there are always critics who ar...

Nature of Siva in Hindu Myth

This paper is in outline form and pertains to literature promoting understanding of the nature of the god Siva in Hinduism. ...

Practical Ethics by Peter Singer

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...

Badwar's Inverse Proportionality Criticism in 'The Circumstance of Justice'

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

Animal Rights

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

Comparison of Aristotle and Plato's Views with Sophist Perspectives

What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...

Self Identity Problems

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

Philosophical Views on Individual Good v. Community Good

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

Issues Pertaining to Economic Philosophy

This research paper examines eight questions that pertain to issues concerning economic philosophy. The topics addressed include t...

A Human Mind Inquiry

Thomas Reid's philosophical perspectives are examined in this paper consisting of nine pages in terms of perceptual senses, visual...

American Poverty and Philosophy

The poor in America are considered in a paper consisting of five pages in which various ethical philosophical perspectives includi...

Progress Concept and On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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

Freedom Concept of J.S. Mill

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

Cases of Conflict of Interest

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

Perfectly Virtuous Medieval City

to be happy, but to be happy he has to know what happiness is and how to achieve it (Alfarabi, p. 35). Here we come to the idea of...

Honesty and Ethics in Philosophy

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

Legal Profession and Ethics

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

Philosophical Analysis on the Illegality of Extortion

exactly? Wikipedia defines it as follows: " Extortion is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person obtains money, behaviour, ...

Philosophical Comparison of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophical perspectives of Mill and Kant in terms of the similarities and di...

Philosophers on International Relations

donor for their present child in need of a transplant (1990). To Kant, that was wrong and while other segments of society would be...

The Integrity and Corruption of Nations: An Ethical Comparison

contrast, lacks a culture that is belligerently opposed to institutional transparency, but instead engages in a more traditionally...

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...

Ethics and the Practice of Organ Trafficking

well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...

Freedom According to Michel Foucault

for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...

Justice, Politics, and Knowledge According to Hobbes and Plato

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

The Argument from Queerness by John L. Mackie

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons and the Moral Questions It Raises

the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...

Internet and Immorality

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

Reason, Good Will, and the Concepts of Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...