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Essays 1861 - 1890
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...
corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
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...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
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...
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...
Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...
(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...
constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
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 this paper contrasts and compares Socrates' views on morality with those of Friedrich Nietzsche as expressed in Birt...
and the natural rights that inherently accompany such ownership. Within the realm of life exists inherent elements to ones existe...
In seven pages this research paper examines the ethical theory of Immanuel Kant in a consideration of his lying stance. Four sour...
This research paper addresses eight specific quetions, offering answers, concerning issues that pertain to Kant, Mill and Aristotl...
reason (Anonymous, 2001, April 16). Utilitarianism Utilitarianism, on the other hand, is an approach to morality that was devel...
have groomed themselves for heaven. They have made sure to live clean lives so their souls will be saved. Agnostics and atheists e...
In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...
In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...
This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...
In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...