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AIDS education is something tied to a disease that has only surfaced at the end of the twentieth century and may have no relevance...
to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...
reason" (Schlumpf 59). In modern society, there are enormous pressures that tempt business people to take shortcuts in order to ...
where nothing detrimental occurs. In fact, Fast Company publishes ethical problems and lies that contributors send in on an annual...
power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...
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...
in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...
the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...
public opinion than when in opposition to it" (Mill 76). When assessing the notion of progress and how it related to Mills...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
in his infamous work On Liberty, he relays that idea. Joplins idea is quite a philosophical, intangible view of freedom as it sug...
it will occur; which leads to the Conclusion: "no action is free" (Cahn, 1971, 39). Hard determinism argues that these two premi...
human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...
achieve this level of human excellence by adhering to the fourteen axioms acts of Nicomachean Ethics, which included gentility, ho...
what he actually did. At the same time, it is not as if this philosopher threw out the basic tenets of reasoning. He did find it n...
difference plays a part in substance use and abuse. In other words, females are more inclined to be judged by their peers and pare...
the relationship of power structures (McGregor and Murnane, 2010). It is also an approach which is assumed to incorporate values a...
contrast, lacks a culture that is belligerently opposed to institutional transparency, but instead engages in a more traditionally...
the most heavily debated political and ideological programs in the history of the world. Established by Mao Tse-Tung as a reaction...
way of the World explains what a Junzi does when it comes to the dealings of this world Applying the third of Confucius philosop...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...
being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...
are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
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...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
the fetus. Pro-choice individuals often argue that the fetus is nothing more than a part of the womans body, with no more signific...
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...