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"hoppers" and "superpredators" (Wagner, 2001). And during one week in California, youth committed heinous crimes including one 15-...

that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...

social order and how it was best managed. The founder of this school of though; Confucius, also known as Kong Zi or Master Kong, l...

2002). It is the dominant religion in India and Nepal Dating back to prehistoric times, it is no surprise that Hinduism has had a...

who consistently place the needs of others above their own. The individuals who do this seemingly so naturally often can be diffi...

2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...

action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...

the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...

our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...

while in society today, the concept is well accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and ...

to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...

permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...

other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...

The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

the text should fit the music, not the other way around. His opera, La Nozza de Figaro, while following the parameters of the comi...

There are many easily-identifiable situations in which an individual may have intention to act but cannot follow through with the ...

the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...