SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :One Classic Argument from The Crito

Essays 241 - 270

Contemporary Society and the Importance of Equality

In seven pages society's need for equality is defended in an argument that discusses pertinent issues and refutes arguments that o...

A Failing Argument

fourth premise is that a world in which people are free to try and harm others if they choose, but do not succeed in doing so is b...

Sam Harris/End of Faith

coached in terms that refer to economics or politics, with faith itself "always, and everywhere, exonerated" (13). He castigates t...

Putting Sir Toby on Trial

an end to Tobys activities. Even Maria has warned Toby that the Lady Olivia is growing impatient with him: "Your cousin, my lady, ...

'Hunger as Ideology' by Susan Bordo

In five pages the author's gender construction arguments as they address hunger issues are analyzed. One source is cited in the b...

Existence of God and Proof

Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, not in the realm...

Reason, Good Will, and the Concepts of Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...

Atheists and the Counterargument of Lois Hope Walker

not. For example, one can take a leap of faith in any direction, whether that is to believe or not to believe. One can believe in ...

William Shakespeare's Coriolanus

men pitted against one another. As a reader, and as an audience member, one does not have any sort of emotional attachment to any ...

Overview of the Federalist Papers

federal control will be abused. This central message is related through different elements in the Federalist Papers, including th...

Stock Market Regulation Impropriety

just happens to hold the stock, and sells it. That is technically illegal as are Internet hoaxes that create panic selling situati...

Anti Abortion's Normative Argument

all abortions in the United States. The abortion rate of Black women is three times that of White women." Anti-abortion activist...

Arguments of John Stuart Mill in On Liberty

that appraisal in terms of wrong, immoral, or wicked is appropriate: only in this area that deterrence and retribution as they ope...

Just War Against Terror by Jean Bethke Elshtain

no political science degree is required to understand the theory and ideology behind the assertions of this author. There is a we...

Gun Control and the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

were needed, and with that, the Second Amendment guaranteed the right of individuals to bear arms in service of that militia, so t...

Principles for Life/Apology and Crito

if "what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or bad man" ("Apology" 28b)(Plato 32-33). In regards to how ...

God Vs. Evil

itself confirms those evils. Mark refers, of course, not only to the goodness of God but also the many evils which exist in our w...

Examination of Beneficence/For the Patient's Good

long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting me...

Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

Arguing against Klein's No Logo

factory workers at the "Kaho Indah Citra garment factory on the outskirts of Jakarta" (Klein xvii), where the workers make the equ...

Peter Kreeft/Fundamentals of Faith

one thing causing another to come into existence. While scientists can argue persuasively that the Big Bang was the beginning of t...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado' and the Revenge Theme Nemo me impune lacessit

the supposed "insult" which Fortunato has offered him; he vacillates between a hatred of the man and a reluctant admiration for hi...

Crown Case

control over the supply chain and should help increase the way value can be added. As such the value that the company will be hopi...

The Jesse Logan Story

verbal assaults as the final straws that led to her daughters death. Even Cynthia Logan maintained that she had no idea that th...

An Argument Against Zero Tolerance

The concept of zero tolerance is becoming more and more...

The Individual and Society in "The Scarlet Letter"

p. 42). As Hawthorne writes, "the scene was not without a mixture of awe... [as well as] guilt and shame", purely because of the d...

United States Should Stop Engaging in Wars

The following examination focuses on the cost of war, both in terms of money and lives; as well as the question of whether or not ...

Scientific Issues Overview

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at scientific issues and the arguments surrounding them. Overpopulation, climate chang...

Consideration of the Power of Prayer

This essay presents a Rogerian type argument that champions the power of prayer. Opposing evidence is state first and then the wr...

Asperger Programs, A Letter to the Editor

This essay presents an argument that there should be specific programs in the public school system that are designed to meet the n...