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Essays 121 - 150
In a paper that contains eight pages the motive for the existence of advertising through profit and persuasion are examined within...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...
actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...
chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...
event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...
to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...
particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...
In five pages this paper offers a comparative analysis of the moral philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill. Four sour...
In seven pages this report examines Utilitarianism and the ethics of Immanuel Kant in a comparison of the rational and moral views...
of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...
taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...
In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...
fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...
what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...
the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...
In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...
non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...
humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...
seem to be common sense. Because there are so many belief systems in a melting pot society, why not just let people decide their o...
Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...
human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...