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He sought not to try to make people feel any better about themselves or the world in which they lived aside from empowering them t...
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...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Mill.htm). An advocate of this particular perspective, "Popper thought that both Mill and Comte were wrong...
Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...
by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...
In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...
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...
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...
texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...
In twenty pages this paper examines Great Britain's post compulsory education from political, cultural, and socioeconomic perspect...
of such works. On further consideration, in fact, the role of these authors in revealing the relationship between men and women w...
truth and freedom through non-violence. Non violence is the most beautiful gift mankind has received since the existing of civiliz...
do was make sure students could read and write properly and have the skills necessary to access they type of knowledge that was ou...
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...
of medicine, law, and theology has been expanded tremendously, however. Now there are professionals in practically every field an...
the teacher would be naturally drawn to the Socratic method of instruction, which relies on the teacher attempting to bring forth ...
made to render the greatest happiness for the greatest number. That is all that utilitarianism is equated with. There are differen...
belief, but at the "priests and their stupid or hypocritical instruments . . we shall think of them only to pity their victims and...
fine, but teaching them what counts is best." This quote, which includes a clever play on words, suggests a very practical approac...
what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...
persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...