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Humans' Routes to the Americas, Theories and Controversies

as walking, so the theory is that he entered North America using the shortest and easiest route which would have been the land mas...

Proof of God's Existence in the Meditations of Rene Descartes

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

Government and the State, Good and Evil, and the Individual According to Philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

from mans knowledge of truth; Aristotle believed that all men pursued happiness which came not from wealth but from contemplation ...

Christian Views on Evil

story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...

A Discussion of Christian Elements in the Epic Poem Beowulf, and in the Character of Beowulf Himself

the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...

Hannah Arendt's The Banality of Evil and Modern Bureaucracy

and employees. So, it becomes imperative that when considering the effective management of ethics structures to pay attention to...

Distress by Greg Egan and Human Values

ordinary life, one can take the comments at face value, or use them as somewhat of a springboard for further thought or discussion...

Theme of Evil in The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

is not the impression one gets from reading The Prince," for according to Oldham it "becomes clear to the reader that Machiavelli ...

David Hume's Philosophical Arguments on the Global Presence of Evil

guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...

William Rowe's Argument on Evil

by allowing some evils to exist, it makes possible greater goods that cannot be obtained by any other route (Honderich, et al 255)...

David Hume and John Locke on the Certainty Concept

assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...

Innate Principles Concept and John Locke

philosophy and political theory for the past 400 years has been incalculable. Locke and Innate Principles In the "Essay Concerni...

Existence of Natural Rights

In five pages the existence of natural rights is considered within the context of John Locke's concepts and as they are manifested...

Competing Ideologies in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

in society. The way the book is presented may be interpreted as propaganda, with every event appearing to be purposefully chosen t...

Erik Erikson

attended to by his mother (Boeree, 2002). When Erikson was three his mother, of Jewish heritage, married Dr. Theodor Homberger an...

Kant: Good Will

"actions are morally right in virtue of their motives, which must derive more from duty than from inclination" (Kemerling, 2002) -...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

Submissive Characters In Children's Literature: Influence Upon Self-Perception In Female Children

set down for them without making any fuss. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen, authors of Writing and Reading Across the Curri...

Do Children Living With Their Mom Only do Worse

The incidence of children living in single-parent homes continues to increase and it is usually the mother raising the children. M...

Nokia in China

market and market share is growing in a rapidly expanding market (Yin, 2006). For Nokia, or any of the companys existing or pote...

Evil in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concept of Gods existence and the problem of evil, the journey of understanding...

Insights and Concepts Regarding Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

steeled and a heart trans- formed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility" (Nietzsche, p.129). One can see tha...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and Themes of Terror and Evil

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem A Report on the Banality of Evil

who did what he was told, but did it with a passion and determination. He was a result of a system that commended people for obeyi...

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche and Symposium by Plato

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

Blood for Oil: The Evils of the Military-Industrial Complex

effort or for the true protection of the country. Brit Hume remarks: "Give me the rest of the theory there. Is it that the United ...

Evil Disease of Crime Cured in Gorgias by Plato

are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...

Evil Theme in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

thoughts terrify him. The fact that Macbeth is thought of as a loyal and noble person at the beginning of the play is made eviden...

Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties and Ernest Becker's Escape from Evil

In five pages this report examines Becker's 1975 novel with Wertmuller's 1976 film in a comparative analysis of the dark humor and...

1958 Film Touch of Evil by Director Orson Welles

drug-trafficking case. Heston, covered in unconvincing dark makeup and no audible Mexican accent, assists Welles in the car bomb c...