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manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

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...

in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...

In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...

must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...

In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...

Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...

permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...

well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...

world, one would find the "ideal tree of which all trees which we see are copies, the ideal house and ideas of all other objects i...

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

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

in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...

constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...

Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...

of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...

contributions to ethical and social theory" (Anonymous John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, 2002; MILL.HTM). In his work "Principles of ...

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...

strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...