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Fallacious, Informal Proof Argument Defending A Grade

a B by virtue of having the same answers as the student who actually did his own work on the final (Cohen, 2004)....

Love According to Soren Kierkegaard’s Works of Love

It is the spiritual and unconditional love for another person. The self, in essence, must be entirely removed from the equation. ...

Ethics in a System of Inquiry

can help to guide the decision making and create a firm foundations that will help to ensure that the outcomes are the best possib...

Ethical Egoism

"the agent ought to promote the self above other values" (Moseley, 2006). This is not as ugly as it sounds: it goes all the way ba...

Philosophical Proofs for the Existence of God

cosmological argument. As mentioned above, an ontological approach uses a deductive argument which "claims that its premises can b...

The Absurd

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

Monism and Pluralism

by the theory of monism (Turner). The greatest strength of monism appears to be its simplicity: it admits of only one underlying c...

Epochs

knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...

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...

Free Will and Determinism in Buddhism

one may see it as quasi-scientific determinism. Yet, from a Western point of view, Buddhism is considered to be indeterministic (A...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Civil Disobedience and Philosophy

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

Global Changes and Cultural Diversity

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

Karl Marx's 1844 Manuscripts Ideas

while in society today, the concept is well accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and ...

Philosophical Views on Individual Good v. Community Good

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

Abolishing the Patent Monopoly

biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...

Overview of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

Christine Busalacchi and Euthanasia

that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...

John Dewey and Richard Rorty Philosophical Parallels

our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

Thomas Aquinas' Work

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

Civilization's Future, Women, and Liberty According to J.S. Mill

in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...

Justice, Philosophy, and Ethics of Health Care Rationing

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...

Analyzing David Hume's Essay 'Miracles'

other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...

Evaluating On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...

Philosophical View of 'Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka

In seven pages this paper provides an existential philosophical examination of the story and discusses how it reflects the time pe...

Ethical Perspectives on Factory Farm Raising of Animals for Human Consumption

with the profits generated from their production of greater importance than the care and welfare of the animals (505). During the...

Questions on Aristotle and Hobbes

Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...

Quine's "On What There Is"

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

Business Cannot Ignore Pollution: It is a Matter of Life, Death, and Ethics

of wildlife and marine life are being endangered as well. Business must make a better effort to solve pollution problems not simp...

Sense Certainty According to Georg Hegel

sense of direction that otherwise would merely drift in subconscious thought, which also helps to apply a modicum of understanding...