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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...

Self Identity Problems

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

Society's Impoverished

In five pages this paper examines how society views its impoverished classes from religious, philosophical, political, and economi...

Clifford, Karl Popper, Insufficient Evidence, and the O.J. Simpson Case

In five pages this paper examines Clifford's claim that insufficient evidence leads to lack of believability in a discussion that ...

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...

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...

Animal Rights

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

Sidney Jourard's Psychological Theories

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

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...

Special Education Concepts

is fair to accommodate golfers who have disabilities because they gain an unfair advantage. However, such beliefs can be detriment...

Argumentative Essay on the Personal Decision of Abortion

involves a critical evaluation of values and desires, and to act in accordance with them after careful reflection. Valuing a pers...

Quine's "On What There Is"

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

Knowledge According to Rene Descartes and John Locke

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

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...

Can't Place a Price Tag on the Goods and Services of Nature

it worth to be able to look out on the waves crashing upon rocks on the shoreline? Nobody can place a value on this for it is an ...

Thoreau/Nature Essays

imposed boundaries. He asks, "What sort of a country is that where the huckleberry fields are private property? When I pass such f...

Emily Dickinson & Nature

"failed," not why she died (line 5). The conversation between these two deceased who died for their art continues "Until the Moss ...

Aristotle's "Nature Belongs To The Class Of Causes Which Act For The Sake Of Something" - Strongest Argument

the strongest objection is to defend human composition by illustrating how equating the two are like comparing apples and oranges....

Defending God's Existence Philosophically

In a paper consisting of eight pages the existence of God is predicated on philosophical as opposed to religious supporting argume...

Philosophy Questions and Religion

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

What Is the Objective of the Philosophical Investigation?

book by Scott Soames; he asks what 20th century analytic philosophy comes to, and reveals that "Soames thinks its two most importa...

A Personal System of Philosophy

Even in the absence of hard and fast codes of ethics such as those that exist for some professions, there are certain basic guidel...

Strategic Human Resource Development

This 30 page paper looks at what is meant by Strategic Human Resource Development (SHRD), how it differences from human resource d...

Questions on Personal Philosophies Answered

Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...

Philosophy Topics

the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...

Moral Relativism

boundaries. Being judgmental of others is not an advantageous characteristic for anyone to exhibit; it is no secret that each per...

Comparative Analysis of the Poems 'Tintern Abbey' and 'The Thorn' by William Wordsworth

does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...

Nature Perspectives

employs descriptive words to create in the reader an appreciation for the reality of nature. This is not to imply that these poets...