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Essays 511 - 540
for a living being, that decision is made for the wrong reasons. By and large, people mean well and want to do the right thing for...
The other part listens to reason "as one would listen to a father." Aristotle asserted that there was no absolute, objectively, ...
In five pages this paper applies the different philosophical perspectives of Machiavelli, Rousseau, and Kant in the retelling of t...
In eight pages this paper examines Socrates' philosophical views on self examination and the importance of motivation within the i...
In fifteen pages this paper examines the philosophies of the mind developed by Jaegwon Kim, Paul Churchland, and David Chalmers in...
This paper considers the nature of miracles from the philosophical perspectives of David Hume in 5 pages. Four sources are cited ...
the fetus. Pro-choice individuals often argue that the fetus is nothing more than a part of the womans body, with no more signific...
is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...
He and a group of utilitarians formed a small Utilitarian Society based on many of the writings of Bentham. His many works appeare...
that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...
"hoppers" and "superpredators" (Wagner, 2001). And during one week in California, youth committed heinous crimes including one 15-...
He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...
is anguish all the time, but there is also a sense of joy at the realization that one is inextricably bound with another. This sen...
world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...
political ends, one should do so through peace and peaceful activism, and not through violence. There were many other philosophica...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
In five pages this paper considers parental rights from philosophical and ethical vantage points. Four sources are cited in the b...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...
which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...
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...
while in society today, the concept is well accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and ...
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...
that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...
support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...