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to be happy, but to be happy he has to know what happiness is and how to achieve it (Alfarabi, p. 35). Here we come to the idea of...

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

to break up that civilization into smaller units. The point being, love is doomed because society requires multiple, sanitized re...

he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...

AIDS education is something tied to a disease that has only surfaced at the end of the twentieth century and may have no relevance...

to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

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culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...

once again began drawing air into his lungs illustrates how this is not necessarily a definitive component of being dead. As such...

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

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

anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....

with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...

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

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...

keep it alive" (Christian Answers to Moral Problems, 2002). Furthermore, in their article entitled "Letting Handicapped ...

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

trade. Barbaric pursuits held no interest, and the Chinese certainly knew their medicine and culture were vastly superior. ...

manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...

steeled and a heart trans- formed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility" (Nietzsche, p.129). One can see tha...