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Overview of Historical Materialism

In six pages this paper considers historical materialism according to Engels and Marx in this philosophical overview. Eight sourc...

Politics, Private Property, and the Philosophy of John Locke

and the natural rights that inherently accompany such ownership. Within the realm of life exists inherent elements to ones existe...

Utilitarianism and Aristotelian Virtue

then, where does one go? Which way is correct? Going back to ancient times, Aristotle had a lot to say about virtue. In the Nicoma...

Homosexuality According to John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

This paper discusses the societal impacts of homosexuality according to the philosophical perspectives of John Stuart Mill and Imm...

Practical Ethics by Peter Singer

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...

Plato and John Stuart Mill on Social Freedom

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

Self Identity Problems

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

Comparison of Aristotle and Plato's Views with Sophist Perspectives

What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...

A Coroporate Morality Case Study

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...

A Corporate Morality Case Study

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...

Ethics and Business

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...

Badwar's Inverse Proportionality Criticism in 'The Circumstance of Justice'

first of all, wherever friendship or community flourishes, justice doesnt - and when this fades, justice becomes more important. S...

On Germany by Madame Germaine de Stael

writer/tutor reviews Staels text in chronological order, the student researching this topic may wish to contrast and compare the ...

Plato and Singer

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

Mind, Time, and Space According to Critique on Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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

Freedom According to Michel Foucault

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

Philosophy of George Berkeley

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

Is There Ever a Justification for Terrorism?

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 ...

Philosophy of Socrates

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

David Hume's 'Miraculous' Philosophy

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

Great Philosophers and Contemporary Leadership

of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...

Knowing Truth That Has Not Been Proven

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...

Abortion and Morality

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

First Person Narrative of a 'Bad' Day

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...

Rene Descartes and David Hume on Knowledge

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

Symposium of Plato and the Concept of Objectified Love

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...

Evaluating On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...

Abolishing the Patent Monopoly

biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...

Civil Disobedience and Philosophy

permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...

Goodness and Philosophy

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...