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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...

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...

Abortion and Morality

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

Symposium of Plato and the Concept of Objectified Love

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

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 ...

Philosophy of Socrates

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...

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...

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...

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, ...

Drug Legalization Philosophical Pros and Cons

In five pages the pros and cons of drug legalization are assessed from a philosophical perspective. Four sources are cited in the...

Overview of Karl Marx's Perceptions and Theories

In five pages such concepts as dialectic method, proletariat and bourgeois, and production's relations and means are discussed wit...

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, ...

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 ...

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....

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 ...

Moral Relativism

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Analysis of a Section of 'Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

interrelationship of human beings with the forces of nature. He mentions that his own growth as a mature individual allows him to ...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the 'Dark' Theme of Revenge

the result of the action he has taken and that such "psychic" revenge is having a far more powerful impact on him than any possibl...