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Tenure and the Tenure Laws of Tennessee

insure that teachers are paid at least a living wage. Even more important, however, is the issue of academic freedom. College is...

Legalizing Euthanasia in Canada

clear pronouncement in the case noted above that assisted suicide remains illegal, several additional cases have either ended in a...

ADHD and a Male Black Teen

of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...

Foucault on the Vikings 'Sex Boat Scandal'

a gay rights movement today which accentuates homosexual activity. Yet, through history homosexuality has always been with society...

Motifs of Ancient Greek Literature and Superman

This essay consists of seven pages and presents the argument that the motifs in the contemporary Superman stories are much like th...

2 Perspectives on Italian Renaissance Humanism

In six pages this paper presents the argument that an adequate overview of the humanism of the Italian Renaissance can be achieved...

Validity or Bigotry in Rap Music Criticisms

are false. After all, if they had any truth to them, then why is the music unable to solicit a more optimistic response from our ...

God and Nature According to Baruch Spinoza

In seven pages this paper examines the perspectives of this seventeenth century philosopher in terms of man's natural existence an...

Contemporary Society and Catholicism

In six pages contemporary Catholicism is examined in terms of typical arguments and the implications of them upon the Church's pro...

Women and Their Religious Ordination

take pleasure in the marital act; that killing infidels was a way to salvation; that taking interest on a loan was forbidden; that...

Comparative Analysis of the Philosophical Views of Thomas Aquinas and Augustine of Hippo

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares each religious philosopher's arguments regarding man being separate from goodness a...

Toward an Old Testament Theology by Walter Kaiser

An overview of the arguments the author makes in Toward and Old Testament Theology is assessed in terms of its strengths and weakn...

Coexistence of Religion and Science?

In a paper consisting of sixteen pages, 1 page being an OUTLINE on whether there is a place for both religious and scientific view...

'Notion of Truth' According to Wittgenstein and Plato's 'Theory of Forms'

understand each of these elements through sensation, he finds himself challenged by the mutability of everything that exists: not...

G.W. Leibniz's Theory of Monads

This paper addresses Leibniz's Monad theory of a harmonious universe, constructed of infinite monads (units), ascending to the Sup...

God's Existence and Reason

In eight pages this paper examines God's existence in a consideration of philosophy's rational arguments. Four sources are cited ...

Questioning the Existence of God

from the known. Unless God is already known, logic is of no use. Having discredited all rational arguments for and against the ex...

Hume and Descartes Compared and Contrasted

This research report compares and contrasts the ideas of these two philosophers. Linear deductive reasoning is examined along with...

Miracles and David Hume

In twelve pages the impact of Hume's arguments regarding miracles on religious thought is assessed in terms of whether or not God ...

Philospher David Hume

In five pages David Hume's contention that there is no God is countered by an opposing argument. Two sources are cited in the bib...

Virtue in Protagoras by Plato

In fifteen pages this paper considers the connection between wisdom, holiness, justice, courage, temperance and virtue as revealed...

Learning, Recollection and Plato's Phaedo and Meno

In three pages this paper considers whether or not learning is new information or simply recollection of past experience according...

Comparing Two Early Greek Philosophers with Plato

The ancient Greek arche concept is compared with Plato's soul concept in an argument that contends Plato's conflict resolution of ...

Justice Theories of Plato in The Republic

In six pages this paper considers the self interest and justice arguments of Thrasymachus and Socrates in The Republic. One sourc...

Justice and Injustice in The Republic by Plato

means. The function of justice is to improve human nature, which is inherently constructive. Therefore, at a minimum, justice i...

Rhetoric in Kenneth Burke and Quintilian Compared

In twelve pages the topic of rhetoric is examined in a comparison of Kenneth Burke and Quintilian's thoughts on the subject with a...

Meditations of Rene Descartes

In six pages this essay examines the preface and each of the Meditations in terms of its primary points, the relationship that exi...

Sun Significance in The Republic by Plato

of life, Socrates contends that reason is as well. Socrates considers the difference between those things that can be understood ...

Plato and Hegel Comparisons and Contrasts

In six pages the arguments of city vs. state, the individual, and soul and spirit that are raised in Hegel's Introduction to the P...

Nature of the Soul According to Plato and Sigmund Freud

In five pages this paper discusses the soul and its significance as conceptualized in the arguments of Plato and Sigmund Freud. F...