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Philosophical Argument on Morally Justifiable Violence and Political Oppression

In five pages Hume, Kant, Cicero, and Plato are discussing how when responding to political oppression violence can be morally jus...

Man's Soul and God Contemplated in Philosophy Essays

In three pages philosophers Hume, Descartes, and Aristotle are applied to the concepts of man's nature, the existence of God, and ...

Eternal Happiness and God

In ten pages free will and God are analyzed in this philosophical essay with a critical examination of theories by Hume, Kierkegaa...

God's Existence 'First Cause' Argument Invalidation

In nine pages this paper presents the 'First Cause' concept and analytically proves it to be invalid with references made to the t...

Philosophers Compared

if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...

Literature and Philosophical Themes

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

Case Study Analysis and the Philosophies of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...

Philosophers Compared and Contrasted

The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...

Moral Responsibility, Determinism, and Free Will

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

Hume and Descartes Compared

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...

Ideas about Peace and War

theories abound, and this idea actually seemingly did spark speculation about other black leaders deaths, it seems that at the ver...

A Philosophical Look at Animal Testing

if cats and dogs and other animals are pets and viewed as members of the family, how can people experiment on them and then put th...

An Analysis of the Ideas of Hume and Ayer

classic volume, the philosopher demonstrates that people know the causes of events but that this knowledge is really perhaps based...

Proust and Descartes Regarding Identity

This research report looks at the ideas of these two philosophers through written works. Other works are explored such as those by...

The Enlightenment in America by Ernest Cassara

In five pages this text is examined in a discussion of enlightenment philosophy as represented by Rousseau, Hume, and Locke. Ther...

Chapter 3 of From the Presocratics to the Present A Personal Odyssey by Daniel Kolak

In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...

Examining Suicide from a Fresh Perspective

suicide ideation is often aligned with a lack of clear thinking. Thus, suicide should not be prohibited or encouraged, but rather ...

Carl L. Becker's Rejection of Popular Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

Cartesian Rationalism from a Critical Viewpoint

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

The Extent to Which Assumptions are Used in the Decision Making Process

wet because a toddler had an "accident" or there is blood everywhere because someone was murdered. Clearly, the bed might have bee...

Human Resources and their Function in Mordern Organizations

This research paper addresses the ways in which the functions of the human resources (HR) departments has changed in recent decade...

Overview of the Human Genome Project

In eight pages the US Human Genome Project on human genetics is examined in an overview that includes its achievements, objectives...

Health Care, Human Resource Training, and the Value of Marketing

In five pages this paper examines health care organizations' human resources and discusses the values of marketing and human resou...

Nursing and Organizational Behavior Principles

that it allows the reader to realize that all aspects of human interaction have an element of sales - selling an idea, a process, ...

Graduate School in Bronfenbrenner's Model

position the late developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner would take. Bronfenbrenners Human Ecology Lang (2005) writ...

Making Changes at Morgan Stanley

This 3 page paper is based n a case study supplied by the student. Change is being made to the performance management and evaluati...

Air Pollution/Cause and Effect

concerning controlling natural sources of pollutants and it is also a definition that recognizes the serious impact that human act...

Dubai Safety Belts Case Study

personnel management. When we look at personnel management we can argue that during the 1980s there was an increased emphasis ...

Literature Review: Human Smuggling

people in the UK," Elaine Chase and June Statham review information about the problem of trafficking in young people in the UK. Th...

The Flea in History

interestingly enough to mean "wingless siphon" (Kettle, 1995). The flea is a highly specialized creature and subsists by sucking ...