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commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...

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

holds that terms such as "good" and "right" are defined on the basis of which behavior provides the greatest benefit to the larges...

administration that is tied to a clandestine love affair. Forbes prints a small article regarding another type of conflict of inte...

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

in his infamous work On Liberty, he relays that idea. Joplins idea is quite a philosophical, intangible view of freedom as it sug...

it will occur; which leads to the Conclusion: "no action is free" (Cahn, 1971, 39). Hard determinism argues that these two premi...

the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...

exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...

public opinion than when in opposition to it" (Mill 76). When assessing the notion of progress and how it related to Mills...

where nothing detrimental occurs. In fact, Fast Company publishes ethical problems and lies that contributors send in on an annual...

power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

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

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

obviously see elements of the man who wrote the story, for Kafka is often considered to be an individual who deeply examined his w...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

should be accompanied by a synchronized text transcript (closed captioning) and audio announcements should also have a synchronize...

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...

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

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...

In this paper consisting of twenty pages questions regarding such influential philosophers as Robert Nozick, Mary Daly, the Stoics...

In five pages the medical ethics, theological, and philosophical issues associated with fertility drug usage are explored. Fourte...

In this paper consisting of three pages an animal fable speech that mirrors the literary style of the novel features similar word ...

In eleven pages this paper discussed athletic coaching and the application of various philosophical ideas. Two sources are cited ...

In five pages a philosophical advisor writes to the French King in 1788 with recommendations for the next year and urges greater c...