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humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

natures regiment. As such, familiarity does not lend itself to unaccountability or being troublesome to understand. Why, then, w...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...

also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

consider that if an entity, such as a nation, is to grow and become prosperous there will be enemies and as such perhaps war is es...

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relati...

defines pornography, which is that they do not know what it is, but they know it when they see it (11). Similarly, it is not out o...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

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...

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

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...

considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

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

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