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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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

not just, but rapacious (1998). It is instead a theater of adaptive and predatory deception (1998). One can clearly see that Thras...

as action vs. inaction, doer vs. writer and philosopher, and primitivism vs. modernism. The erudite English narrator of Zorba the...

view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...

with one another and with figures of authority in order to maximize the best interests of each individual. When left without a cen...

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

Barbour, time is merely an illusion (Anonymous, 2000). In his ruminations on time, Augustine contemplates the subjectivity of tim...

In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...

relational dyads, and the part of a larger social collective. Family values, individual culture and social constructs all impact ...

"endowed with special grace or powers" (Christian, 2008). It is easy to understand how such claims are perpetuated and reinforced:...

to explore the views of human nature of Plato and other thinkers, as well as how these views were expressed in governmental form. ...

to end in failure. This paper will explore the pursuit of happiness in the context of the balance between two traditional extremes...

leadership, leaders must make a committed examination of the particular context in which they operate. For this reason, it is diff...

himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...