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Human Rights Violation: Gender

gender equality has come to reflect equity of human rights, as well. This Western ideology, however, has not infiltrated those gl...

The Child As A Moral Philosopher By Kohlberg

children simply adopt and internalize the standards they are taught by their parents but Kohlberg found that children make moral j...

Arguing Against Reality's Static Absolutism and Indian Philosopher Nagarjuna

with the absolute. Nagarjuna disagreed with this sense of absolutism. Nagarjuna philosophy can also be distinguished from mainst...

Introduction to Major Philosophers and Their Philosophies

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

Knowledge as Conceptualized by Philosophers

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

Affirmative Action, Justice, and Philosopher John Rawls

Nozicks Theory of Justice presents a strong argument for the libertarian view. This view honors property rights, that is, that in...

Philosophers on Moral Theory

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

Art According to Philosophers Descartes, Barthes, and Foucault

know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...

Philosophers and Justice Throughout History

an ends justify the means ideology. To Machiavelli, justice has to do with an end. One can take Machiavellis concept a bit furthe...

A Philosopher Dialogue

guidance that gives meaning for man. Rather, as he explains, mans actions and intellectual activity seem to provide meaning. This ...

Ancient Philosophers on Democracy

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

Sensual Inquiry of Philosopher Rene Descartes

a desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...

Conservatism and British Political Philosopher Edmund Burke

actually been a supporter of revolution in the American colonies. Burke certainly believed in individual rights, but he stressed t...

Unity, Being, and Becoming According to the Philosophers

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

Great Philosophers and Contemporary Leadership

of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...

Philosophers on God's Existence

experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...

The Greatest Philosopher Aristotle

In a paper that contains four pages Aristotle's logic and employment of syllogism are heralded as being not only philosophically b...

Philosophers and Personal Responsibility

In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rene Descartes and Plato in a consideration of the mind and the soul, which ...

Right and Wrong According to Philosophers W. David Ross and Thomas Hobbes

In five pages this essay considers right and wrong from Hobbes' 17th century perspectives and Ross's 20th century vantage point. ...

Subjective and Objective Morality and Scottish Philosopher David Hume

In four pages this report examines subjective and objective morality from the perspective of David Hume. Two sources are cited in...

Philosophers on the Death Penalty

In ten pages capital punishment is examined in terms of ethical acceptability with an attempt to arrive at a consensus through a c...

Socrates and the Need for Philosophers

this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...

7 Major Philosophers

discoveries of this philosopher? Has this person made a significant contribution that has led to the discovery or founding of some...

Social Contributions of Philosophers

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

Philosophers on Life's Meaning

one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...

Early Greek Philosopher Parmenides

as a problem (Frost, 1962). However, later philosophers, as they pondered the nature of the universe, began to see the fact of cha...

Paradoxes of the Philosopher Zeno

This paper examines space and time's inductive relativity as conceptualized by the paradoxes of Zeno in six pages. Four sources a...

Business Decisions and Philosophers

In nine pages a business dilemma is examined by consulting philosophers Rawls, Mill, and Kant on how to best handle the economic d...

Philosophers on Dualism

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...