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'Obligation of Promises' According to David Hume

It is here that the concept of utility arises. Hume asserts that qualities are valued either for their agreeableness, either to t...

Chaucer, Deceit and Medieval Honor

The Miller's Tale and the Pardoner's Tale from Chaucers' Canterbury Tales are compared in this paper to Beowulf and Sir Gawain and...

David Hume and How Morality Originated

deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...

Theories of Sigmund Freud

In eight pages the famous 'Dora' case of Sigmund Freud is discussed in an examination of human nature with a consideration of his ...

Analysis of Lost Boys Why Our Sons Turn Violent And How We Can Save Them by James Garbarino

its racial intolerance. "When white middle-class kids kill, there is always a public outcry of why and a search for what went wro...

Society and the Ethics of Aristotle

In five pages Aristotle's contentions regarding overcoming self interests in human nature are examines within the context that acc...

The Theories of Carl Rogers

followed this by subjecting any hypotheses generated to elaborate and vigorous tests for validity and error. But from the sixties ...

Works of D.H. Lawrence

In four pages the political views and books of D.H. Lawrence are examined in terms of human nature and sexuality. Three sources a...

Violence and How It is Glorified in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In eight pages this paper discusses the epic's glorification of violence in an analysis that also considers gender roles, human na...

An Analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

This paper analyzes various facets of Marquez's novel with an emphasis on how the novelist presents human nature and fear. This f...

Law and Ritual Concepts According to Han Fei, Mencius, and Confucius

The ways in which laws and rituals are interrelated are considered in six pages through an examination of human nature as conceptu...

Human Development and the Ongoing Debate of Nurture v. Nature

In five pages this report discuses the human development debate in a consideration of how little is actually known regarding genet...

Animals and the Study of Consciousness

The nature and extent of consciousness in animals has been the source of hot debate in the scientific community. This paper examin...

Humanist and Existentialist Learning Development Compared

The learning theories of Erik Erikson, Victor Frankl, and Carl Rogers are compared in eight pages in terms of learning experience...

Inequality Origins and the Philosophies of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx

In five pages this paper discusses human nature and the origins of inequality as viewed by philosophers Karl Marx and Jean Jacques...

Enlightened Age Elements of Progress, Nature, and Reason

and comparison of the volumes of literature that were produced during this era. Three of the great philosophers of this era, Thom...

Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People

do most of the talking. While much of Carnegies advice may sound manipulative or dishonest, consider for a moment how making team ...

Authority Compliance as a Dangerous Social Characteristic

In 3 pages the human nature experiments of Stanley Milgram are examined in a consideration of the negative impacts of blind author...

Intertwining Cultural and Social Contexts

In 5 pages this paper examines human nature in a consideration of the relationship that exists between cultural and social context...

Control of Nature by John McPhee

In five pages this paper analyzes 2 of McPhee's stories regarding the defiance of human nature by individuals. Two sources are ci...

Chapters Thirty Four through Thirty Seven of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In six pages this paper discusses what human nature lesson heroine Elizabeth Bennet learns in these important chapters of Pride an...

John Dryden's 'Absalom and Achitophel' and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

In five pages this paper discusses the human nature representation in allegories featured in each of these works in a contrast and...

Chin P'ing Mei's The Golden Lotus

In five pages this paper reviews the text and considers what cultural aspects are revealed about society as well as what is symbol...

Different Views on Chaos Theory

7 pages and 7 sources. This paper provides an overview of the basic elements of chaos theory and relates them to views of their a...

An Analysis of Pinter's Play, The Dumb Waiter

This paper examines the importance of the play's final scene as it pertains to human nature, society, and providing a conclusion t...

Ritual and Law in the Writings of Mencius, Han Fei, and Confucius

The ways in which Chinese philosophers' views of human nature influenced how the perceived the interrelationship of rituals and la...

Consumer Culture Creation and the Impact of the Advertising Industry

In 5 pages this paper discusses how a consumer culture is created by the advertising industry in a consideration of the human natu...

Attack on Personal Identity by David Hume and Karl Popper's Response

In five pages Hume's attack on the self or personal identity is discussed as represented in A Treatise of Human Nature and also co...

Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato

In nine pages this report compares the philosophies on human nature as conceptualized by Niccolo Machiavelli and Plato with Plato'...