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on actions, then the argument would end there. Utilitarianism, therefore, is their effect on society and the world at large. Actio...
If we accept the premise, therefore, that science is capable of defining physiological death then we must ask ourselves how do we ...
identifies Schopenhauers most distinctive contribution to philosophy as his "insistence that Will is more basic than thought to bo...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...
contributions to ethical and social theory" (Anonymous John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, 2002; MILL.HTM). In his work "Principles of ...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
lying promise is something that is said in order to achieve a favorable outcome. What if someone has a gun to the victims childs h...
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...
the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...
(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
most general - or universal - aspect of things" (Definition of Philosophy). These studies, the definition continues, are not carri...
the reader into the oppressive world of slavery. Indeed, it was the authors desire to bring attention to the injustices faced by ...
the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...
done right and what potentially could go wrong, in the end one has to choose the model or models that most closely resemble ones o...
saying the above statement. The names change and the nature of the addiction changes with the substance, but the goal and reward ...
corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...
but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...
In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...
their roles. As a result, there is a need to temper the actions of the nurse in the carative environment with a recognition of th...
creation of Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For some time now, as the student researching this topic may be aware...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...
This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...