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Democracy Critiqued by Plato

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

U.S. War With Iraq and Its Justifications

own citizens and concerns. However, according to the Just War theory, not only was war with Iraq (and Saddam Hussein) warranted,...

Thomas Aquinas and David Hume on Religious Morality

a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...

Morality and Religion According to Immanuel Kant

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

Morality and the Law

play the desires of the majority, upon which this nation is primarily based. If the majority of the people, for example, believe t...

Overview of Learning

From this beginning, other theories involved that explain social behavior in terms of learning theory. According to social-learnin...

Kate Chopin and James Joyce

controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...

Duty, Morality, and Immanuel Kant

critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is nothing more than a veiled continuation of social domination. Distin...

The Sparrow by Mary D. Russell

conveniently Earth-like, with an oxygen atmosphere, abundant plant-life that is non-toxic for human consumption, and bi-pedal, rou...

Morality and Charles Darwin's Theories

which the young born to any species compete for survival is only part of his much larger concept regarding how human beings have d...

Internet Technology and Morality

compromising of principles much more likely. For example, it is noted that the Internet opens the doors of pornography and cyber a...

John Stuart Mill and Drugs Legalization

prevailing arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on h...

Human Life in the Films Man Facing Southeast, A Short Film About Killing, and Taste of Cherry

the most fundamental truths of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress and feelings of social and ...

The Trial Scene in A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

as those which the British themselves aspire to. Mahmoud...

Business and the Role of Ethics

system is well designed then it may even be their own job that becomes redundant (Taylor and Moynihan, 2002). Here we see that IT...

Pornography and Standards of Morality

has been the anti-porn supporters main argument in their fight to get rid of sexually explicit material. They claim it encourages...

Morality and the Sensibility of Thomas Hobbes

it followeth necessarily when they that have the government of religion shall come to have either the wisdom of those men, their s...

Aristotle's Legal Defense of a Guilty Man

and then define the perfect solution to problems that might arise. Aristotle claimed that: "I have gained this from philosophy: I ...

Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

Veritatis Splendor by Pope John Paul II

goes so far in explaining life. The fact that science is embraced at all is significant, as the Pope does recognize the validity o...

Human Condition and Morality Thoughts

on around him and within his community regardless of what that community might be. The Revenge of Conscience...

Good Life According to Friedrich Nietzsche

or good enough. This individual does not say they have gone out of their way for another, nor have they claimed that they have sto...

Reasons for Punishment According to Friedrich Nietzsche

core of humanitys lack of individualism and blind willingness to be part of what he referred to as "the herd." In Nietzsches opini...

Philosophical Conjecture and Morality

exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives, which help maintain order and a sense of direction that otherwise woul...

How Shirley Jackson Employs Allegory in Her Tale, 'The Possibility of Evil'

or purchased by her ancestors. For example, she notes the rugs that her mother and her grandmother made in her house that was buil...

Morality Enforcement and the Law

as burglary and even bigamy, where offenders may be granted a higher sentence, and as such we need to question the morals of a soc...

'Theory of Moral Sentiment' by Adam Smith

could report, Smith is stating that morality is the product of ones nature, not of reason, as many of his contemporaries believed....

The Ethics of Belief by W.K. Clifford

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

Four Films and Their Portrayal of Crime and Judicial Procedures

element introduced when Utah encounters Bodhi, and is made to consider rather deeper philosophical aspects of life than the straig...

The Argument from Queerness by John L. Mackie

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...