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the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...
the layers are slowly and systematically peeled away, revealing increasingly more of the personality of the individual (Williams, ...
morning and be blown up on a bus or go to a discotheque and be killed in an explosion. These are not unusual scenarios there. For ...
childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...
of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...
However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...
certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...
is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...
ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...
Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...
Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...
2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...
What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...
the universe, in which human beings are pictured a being at the top of the pyramid to one that sees life as an expanding circle th...
interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...
first of all, wherever friendship or community flourishes, justice doesnt - and when this fades, justice becomes more important. S...
writer/tutor reviews Staels text in chronological order, the student researching this topic may wish to contrast and compare the ...
natures regiment. As such, familiarity does not lend itself to unaccountability or being troublesome to understand. Why, then, w...
humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...
conclusions. Most logical claims can be refuted. Thus, logic in some way is not much better than perception. At least, one can say...
of the patient (beneficence); * does not perform functions that can do harm to the patient (non-malficence); * practice fairness...
to heart disease and diabetes (Webster, 1999). Thanks to biogenetics, in fact, researchers can grow human cells in the laboratory ...
the company as well as its profitability is important to him. Ellis will likely want to go for the deal but the situation does get...
new. The result was the death of the brand, all ferries were gradually changed to P&O ferries, the name of the parent company, but...
2004). John Stuart Mills, in his book Utilitarianism, further stated that not all forms of pleasure were of equal value (Free-Defi...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...
biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...
to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...