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Functionalism and Representationalism

the role it plays, in the cognitive system of which it is a part (Levin, 2004). Functionalism is an opinion about the nature of m...

Animal Rights Debate

She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...

Nursing Ethics

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

Death Definition That is Currently Accepted

once again began drawing air into his lungs illustrates how this is not necessarily a definitive component of being dead. As such...

Philosophy and Logos

persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...

An Ethical Model for Teaching

AIDS education is something tied to a disease that has only surfaced at the end of the twentieth century and may have no relevance...

Love Theories

to break up that civilization into smaller units. The point being, love is doomed because society requires multiple, sanitized re...

'Good Life' According to Socrates

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

Dying and Death Readings

he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...

Perfectly Virtuous Medieval City

to be happy, but to be happy he has to know what happiness is and how to achieve it (Alfarabi, p. 35). Here we come to the idea of...

An Exploration of Consciousness

It is not the awareness, however, which overrides the ignorance, it is the cognition (Mohanty, 2001). Knowledge in this regard ca...

Seltzer's Serial Killers

that society, or the perpetrators parents, should not be blamed for any horrific acts. The offender is the only one that someone s...

Choosing a Philosopher

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

"Ferris Bueller" and Four Ethical Traditions

when Jesus says that "He has not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it."4 Theologians argue over the correct interpretation ...

Marx and Weber and the Origins of Capitalism

if the Weber model is correct. Kilcullen points out that Weber "was perhaps the first great master of the major institutional fac...

Ethics, Justice, Love, Virtue and the Death Penalty

(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...

Business Ethics and Moral Issue

reason" (Schlumpf 59). In modern society, there are enormous pressures that tempt business people to take shortcuts in order to ...

"Faust" and "Madame Bovary"

who is, for a good many people, the most entertaining character in the play. Mephistopheles manipulates Faust so that he "loves an...

Thought without Language

to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...

Proslogion By Anselm Of Canterbury

his original conclusion that God exists, a being greater than can be conceived. Question: Is this a devotional work or a philoso...

White Noise by DeLillo

information we get today, seems to argues such things as the benefits of something but the dangers of that same item. Today people...

Love According to Soren Kierkegaard’s Works of Love

It is the spiritual and unconditional love for another person. The self, in essence, must be entirely removed from the equation. ...

Fallacious, Informal Proof Argument Defending A Grade

a B by virtue of having the same answers as the student who actually did his own work on the final (Cohen, 2004)....

Internet and Immorality

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

Reason, Good Will, and the Concepts of Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...

Candide by Voltaire, The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, and Insights Gained

In four pages this paper examines the philosophical insights each of these works offer. Five sources are cited in the bibliograph...

The Social Movement of Animal Rights

behind progress in other areas. I. Introduction When a Bichon Frise was thrown into traffic and killed early in 2000, due to ...

Capital Punishment and American Political Changes

be the greater injustice. It can be contended that Socrates was correct, that the death penalty is an important tool for insuring...

Special Education Concepts

is fair to accommodate golfers who have disabilities because they gain an unfair advantage. However, such beliefs can be detriment...

Ideology of NAEYC and Educational Place of DAP

meaningless activities of play, for example, could have a tremendous impact on the development of the child. He identified four c...