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of the patient (beneficence); * does not perform functions that can do harm to the patient (non-malficence); * practice fairness...

to heart disease and diabetes (Webster, 1999). Thanks to biogenetics, in fact, researchers can grow human cells in the laboratory ...

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

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

In four pages this paper examines the philosophical insights each of these works offer. Five sources are cited in the bibliograph...

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

be the greater injustice. It can be contended that Socrates was correct, that the death penalty is an important tool for insuring...

is fair to accommodate golfers who have disabilities because they gain an unfair advantage. However, such beliefs can be detriment...

Platonic love reflects the deepest love possible between two people, in that it does not abide by the notions of restriction, jeal...

behind progress in other areas. I. Introduction When a Bichon Frise was thrown into traffic and killed early in 2000, due to ...

must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...

also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

consider that if an entity, such as a nation, is to grow and become prosperous there will be enemies and as such perhaps war is es...

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relati...

morning and be blown up on a bus or go to a discotheque and be killed in an explosion. These are not unusual scenarios there. For ...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...