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which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...
considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...
to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...
while in society today, the concept is well accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and ...
is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...
with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...
well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...
defines pornography, which is that they do not know what it is, but they know it when they see it (11). Similarly, it is not out o...
not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...
We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...
should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...
once again began drawing air into his lungs illustrates how this is not necessarily a definitive component of being dead. As such...
the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...
interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...
to break up that civilization into smaller units. The point being, love is doomed because society requires multiple, sanitized re...
he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...
to be happy, but to be happy he has to know what happiness is and how to achieve it (Alfarabi, p. 35). Here we come to the idea of...
expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...
the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...
Ethical violations and philosophical theories in the case of PharmaCARE, a fictitious pharmaceutical firm. There are 8 sources lis...
persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...
In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...
commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...
of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...
obviously see elements of the man who wrote the story, for Kafka is often considered to be an individual who deeply examined his w...
administration that is tied to a clandestine love affair. Forbes prints a small article regarding another type of conflict of inte...