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challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...

the effects of "Original Sin" (Hundersmarck 133). While Machiavelli agreed with this stance, he did not do so because of theology....

that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...

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

philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...

This research paper examines Kant's philosophy of transcendental deduction, with a specific focus on the transcendental unity of a...

address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...

arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on his off hour...

the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...

Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...

were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...

that the object of thought is capable of being. Hume understands that, quite simplistically, the soul is simply . . . the soul. ...

gave the commencement speech at his daughters graduation from Radcliffe, he concisely summed up the essence of what he found to be...

for existence in which the fittest members of a varying population survive, reproduce, and pass on their traits to the next genera...

However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...

the mind" then "no physical thing exists outside the mind" (McGreal 252). Third, primary qualities such as solidity, extension, sh...

of his better known works "The Social Contract", he discusses issues involved in radical or republican thought regarding the human...

hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Andrew, but it can be assured that there is...

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

to is none other than that of the Romantic period. The person who considered himself a romantic, too, would question some of life...

their anxiety in significantly negative ways. Diversity in the type of sport is yet another critical consideration when it comes ...

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

stronger. The authors make no comment on whether any of the individuals were concerned about becoming dependent on their pa...

just like their travel mates. As the plot unfolds, however, we find that these four have much more in common than they would care...

(2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a trial judge, and finally a California Superior C...

break through by inventing a new paradigm are] almost always...either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they chan...

to see that Aristophanes was a conservative through and through and seemed to prefer an almost aristocratic rule to a democratic o...

When he finally gets the ice cream, he is happy. So was this an example of the past, the present and the future? Not necessarily...

to that of Egoism which is based on the premise that mans concern with his own good is the basis of mans morality. Sidgwick in his...

idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...