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the Republic. Take pornography as an example. Plato argued that objectionable ideas can upset the understanding (Johnston). Femini...
humans, it is not necessarily the best thing to do. Kant also supports a categorical imperative principle which suggests that some...
fine, but teaching them what counts is best." This quote, which includes a clever play on words, suggests a very practical approac...
belief, but at the "priests and their stupid or hypocritical instruments . . we shall think of them only to pity their victims and...
what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...
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...
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 ...
This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
and the natural rights that inherently accompany such ownership. Within the realm of life exists inherent elements to ones existe...
reason (Anonymous, 2001, April 16). Utilitarianism Utilitarianism, on the other hand, is an approach to morality that was devel...
have groomed themselves for heaven. They have made sure to live clean lives so their souls will be saved. Agnostics and atheists e...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Socrates' views on morality with those of Friedrich Nietzsche as expressed in Birt...
In five pages business ethics are examined through applications of theories by philosophers David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John St...
In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...
In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
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...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...
Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...
In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...
in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...
must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...
In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...
We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...
learning, which was the current philosophy of his day (American Philosopher John Dewey). Since the inception of Deweys e...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...