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Contemporary Slavery and Philosophical Concepts

the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...

Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon on Realism and Idealism

to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...

Overview of Perception

are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Free Will and Determinism in Buddhism

one may see it as quasi-scientific determinism. Yet, from a Western point of view, Buddhism is considered to be indeterministic (A...

Quine's "On What There Is"

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

Business Cannot Ignore Pollution: It is a Matter of Life, Death, and Ethics

of wildlife and marine life are being endangered as well. Business must make a better effort to solve pollution problems not simp...

The Absurd

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

Philosophical Proofs for the Existence of God

cosmological argument. As mentioned above, an ontological approach uses a deductive argument which "claims that its premises can b...

Epochs

knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...

Monism and Pluralism

by the theory of monism (Turner). The greatest strength of monism appears to be its simplicity: it admits of only one underlying c...

Science, Philosophy, and God's Existence

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

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...

Knowledge Analysis by David Hume

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

Buddhism and Hinduism

Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...

Legal Positivism and the Philosophical Contribution of Hart

the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...

Humanist Philosophies of Immanuel Kant in Metaphysics Of Morals

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

Comparison of Gould and Bacon

Many contend that while God is all good, man has free will and brings the suffering on himself. At the same time, animals cannot r...

Contemporary Society and Classical Theory

tendencies within society and the fact that people are far too concerned with their own well being to fend for those who cannot fe...

Journeys and Their Philosophical Meaning in 'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

student who is writing about this topic should consider the ways in which the each author develops the philosophical journey of ea...

Thomas Youk's Assisted Suicide Aired on Television

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

God, Nature, and Human Knowledge and the Philosophies of John Locke and Rene Descartes

what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...

Plato, Francis Crick, and Leibniz on the Existence of God

being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...

Self Identity According to David Hume

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

Philosophies of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Nietzsche

strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...

Ethical Foundations Laid by Confucius and Immanuel Kant

have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...

There is Never a Justification for Lying

lie to the police, and fabricate "evidence," in order to protect her daughter from possible harm? Or, should she allow her daughte...

Perspectives on Universality

(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...

Charles Dickens' Hard Times

does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...

Philosophy Q and A

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...