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bad. Those who hate Wal-Mart say that the opening of a Wal-Mart in a new city forces small businesses to close. They argue that em...

long as books have been published, they have been subject to editorial censorship, and even outright banning. As long as painters ...

most revolutionary of all science fiction novels when it first appeared in the 1960s. In fact, its appearance on the literary scen...

The Minimalistic Concept of God is based on an argument for a moral intelligent creator of the universe. It does not argue for all...

The abortion debate is characterized by two camps of argument. These camps are the...

obtained the quality he called "grazia," which he used to describe a "kind of perfect divine beauty" (Witcombe). A work of art cam...

can be viewed as a socially constructed contract, opposition to applying marriage to homosexual unions extends from the social con...

the demands of the world. Side #2: Pro-Life The utilitarian perspective defines the need for autonomy in decision-making, a...

a perfect idea has to have been placed in the human mind by a perfect being or God, which is equivalent to Descartes Third Meditat...

To conjure a concept is to bring about thought; however, the question as to where and how that thought originated continues to be ...

Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...

our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

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

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...

contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...

course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

normal children do. However, these tasks that ordinary children dont think twice about, offer sincere and daunting challenges to t...

horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...

of knowledge through experience, and so is the basis for synthetic statements that are linked to a postiori knowledge. Kant used ...

of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...

exactly? Wikipedia defines it as follows: " Extortion is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person obtains money, behaviour, ...

in turn functions to accentuate the bodys passage through time. Myriad philosophers, psychologists and sociologists have at...

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...

the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...

a prison takeover (Burke, 1995). Though unusual, if something like that were to happen, officials would be at an extreme disadvant...

but philosophers also argue that private property rights are necessary (even when they seem unfair) "for the ethical development o...

incorporate personal and sometimes selfish considerations into the process of ethical determinations, but this does not negate the...