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Comparative Analysis of Utilitarianism and Natural Law Moral Theories

In twenty one pages this paper contrasts and compares natural law and utilitarianism in a consideration of their similarities and ...

Inevitability of War

In fourteen pages Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts by Thomas Hobbes is referenced in this overview of war's...

A Sovereign Philosophical View

In twenty pages the relationship that exists between natural law ans sovereignty is examined through such philosophical perspectiv...

Theory of Natural Law

reflects human nature and is able to discover the truth as it respects particular moral norms (Koterski 415). Natural law is somet...

Laws Concerning Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) And Euthanasia: New York State And Florida State

transpired. Florida statutes 765.309, 458.326 and 782.08 all prohibit euthanasia, with the first statute explicitly stating that ...

Laws and Regulations in Insurance Practice in Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania

maintains two broad categories, Property/Casualty and Life/Health. Agents must be licensed in both to be able to sell policies in...

Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy Themes

In four pages this paper examines the characters, chorus, women, and state 'spiritual bankruptcy' theme featured in Sophocles' Oed...

Audience Identification and Tragic Catharsis in Antigone by Sophocles

In five pages this paper defines the catharsis concept and then discusses how audiences identify with the tragic catharsis that oc...

Heroism in Antigone by Sophocles

In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...

Literary Depictions of Greed

In five pages the role greed plays in the literary works No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, Candide by Voltaire, and Antigone by Sophocl...

Structure and Themes of Antigone by Sophocles

In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, themes, and morality issues that are addressed in Antigone by Sophocles. There...

Strong Women in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and Sophocles

for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...

Book of Job, Sophocles, Plato, and Aristophanes on Justice

In six pages The Book of Job from the Old Testament, Antigone by Sophocles, Crito and Apology by Plato, and The Clouds by Aristoph...

Philadelphia, Legal Issues in the Film

and complicated issue of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in any notable fashion" prior to this movie (Tepper, 1995). Fi...

Tension Between Individual and Group in Sophocles’ Oedipus Trilogy

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

The Apology, Antigone and the Concept of Virtue

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...

Theban Plays of Sophocles and Themes of Morality and Fate

In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...

Antigone and the Old Testament

In 1178 Maimonides completed Mishneh Torah, what he had hoped would be a compete authoritative code of Jewish law (both Oral and W...

Classical Literature and Women

In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...

Power According to Antigone and Oedipus

the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...

Feminist Analysis and Antigone

violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...

Literature, Poetry, and Self Reliance

many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...

Human Nature, Morality, Punishment, Guilt, Crime, Justice, and Law in Literature

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Antigone, and Stubbornness

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

Societal Struggles of Women

enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...

Issues in Australian Law

The second basis of the appeal was that evidence of an alibi had been excluded by the initial trial judge under s.150 of the Crimi...

Natural Law and Jeremy Bentham

it was necessary to develop an account of human nature....

War According to Thomas Hobbes' Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts

In five pages this text by Hobbes is applied to the thesis that war is inevitable. There are no other sources listed....

Matthew 22:34-46

teaches that "all of the Law and the Prophets rest on the command to love God and neighbor (22:34-40)" (Kozar 78). Matthew 22:34...

Natural Law Perspective and Justification of Lying

In ten pages this research paper considers the criminal justice system in terms of deception and lying and the ethical considerati...