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Essays 691 - 720
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...
He and a group of utilitarians formed a small Utilitarian Society based on many of the writings of Bentham. His many works appeare...
the fetus. Pro-choice individuals often argue that the fetus is nothing more than a part of the womans body, with no more signific...
that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...
"hoppers" and "superpredators" (Wagner, 2001). And during one week in California, youth committed heinous crimes including one 15-...
anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....
with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...
action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...
and nurses often object to actively participating in active euthanasia on the basis of their professional codes which explicitly p...
2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...
keep it alive" (Christian Answers to Moral Problems, 2002). Furthermore, in their article entitled "Letting Handicapped ...
social order and how it was best managed. The founder of this school of though; Confucius, also known as Kong Zi or Master Kong, l...
2002). It is the dominant religion in India and Nepal Dating back to prehistoric times, it is no surprise that Hinduism has had a...
who consistently place the needs of others above their own. The individuals who do this seemingly so naturally often can be diffi...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...
manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...
trade. Barbaric pursuits held no interest, and the Chinese certainly knew their medicine and culture were vastly superior. ...
to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...
What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...
the universe, in which human beings are pictured a being at the top of the pyramid to one that sees life as an expanding circle th...
interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...
first of all, wherever friendship or community flourishes, justice doesnt - and when this fades, justice becomes more important. S...
points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...
writer/tutor reviews Staels text in chronological order, the student researching this topic may wish to contrast and compare the ...
natures regiment. As such, familiarity does not lend itself to unaccountability or being troublesome to understand. Why, then, w...
conclusions. Most logical claims can be refuted. Thus, logic in some way is not much better than perception. At least, one can say...
2004). John Stuart Mills, in his book Utilitarianism, further stated that not all forms of pleasure were of equal value (Free-Defi...