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Induction Problem and David Hume

Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....

Absolute Sovereign Power According to Thomas Hobbes

as this being the basis of the way than man will then behave as a result of the toughs Hobbes attention turns to human nature. C...

Rene Descartes and Thomas Aquinas on the Body and Mind

the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...

Different Thoughts About Capitalism

property, and divine or eternal laws (Gasser, 2007). They did not necessarily agree but they both offered views on what we can ref...

Would Aristotle Label Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman as a Tragedy?

audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...

Virtue: A Comparison of the Views of Aristotle and Confucius

and Aristotle are philosophers who discuss virtue. Yet, Yu (1998) claims that when it comes to virtue, neither Aristotle or Confu...

EPICTETUS AND NIETZSCHE: VIEWS AND EXPERIENCE

to combine rational and irrational, and accept it in ones life (Epictetus, 2004). Throughout his first published book Discourses, ...

Children And Moral Recognition

merely a reflection of ones own self-interest? Distinguishing these moral and ethical actions presses one to determine if the act...

Why Monotheism is Not Rational

theories of evaluating this today, such as the Big Bang. That is, there may be a world that has come about, and a cause, but the c...

Descartes vs. Russon

Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...

Essay on Auguste Comte

equality reversed and he no longer supported the cause of "economic and moral independence" for women in his later years, but rath...

Buddha: Buddhism and Hinduism

the fact that "The Buddhists consider the world to be full of sorrow and regard ending the sorrow as the chief aim of human life" ...

"Option Four" By Ramesh Ponnuru: Review

plays a role in mandating its recognition as a union, will it automatically segue into an issue of rights that have been heretofor...

Responsibility

is not accountable, or technically responsible for something going wrong, they are not otherwise responsible. In essence, under th...

Catholic Social Teaching

faith" (Sharing Catholic). This document explains that Catholic social teaching is founded on a "commitment to the poor," which ar...

Is There A Moral Or Economic Case For The Existence Of Fair Trade Organizations?

There are a number of charities that work towards fair trade as a part of a larger remit to help those in needs such as those in d...

Article Critique/Moral Leadership

the schools life-world will draw out "the unique potential inherent with each individual" (Quick and Normore, 2004, p. 336). The a...

Catholic/Jewish Dialogue & Educational Practice

diversity of educational reforms." This is an extremely large topic, as educational literature indicates that reform is needed in ...

Thomas Nagel/”Moral Luck”

that are beyond their control. In other words, there are factors that affect the way in which an event is evaluated morally that a...

"SWALLOWS OF KABUL" AND "DAWN": A RELIGIOUS COMPARISON

reign of the Taliban. "The Afghan countryside is nothing but battlefields, expanses of sand and cemeteries," the author writes in ...

Caring and the Nurse Practitioner

now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...

Should A Company Undertake Loss Management If They Have Insurance?

In any business there will always be some type of risk. Insurance has been a tool used by individuals and companies for many years...

Abortion: A Moral Issue

it is murder and thus morally wrong. Those who are against abortion may often base their standing on religion, saying that God d...

The Morality of Frankenstein

because of the gruesome nature of the experiments, he has to be very circumspect about where he lives-another broad hint that he s...

Ethics Of Managed Care

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

Moral Crises in “Huckleberry Finn” and “Silas Lapham”

We learn that he forced his partner, Mr. Rogers, out of the business just as it was becoming successful; Lapham and his wife run i...

Nurses Job Satisfaction

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

Abraham Lincoln - Personality Development

hire on other farms (The History Place, 1996). The same year his sister died, he and a friend, Allen Gentry took a flatboat of pr...

Moral Analysis & Stance

through experiments with mice; they specifically worked to correct the gene that prevents the growth of tumors (Aldhous, 2006). Sc...

Aspects of Human Development: Infancy

et al, 2004). Typically, the human body is comprised of millions of microscopic cells that each house many chromosomes, classifie...