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Contemporary Society and Classical Theory

tendencies within society and the fact that people are far too concerned with their own well being to fend for those who cannot fe...

Identity in the Novel as a Philosophical Exploration

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

Human Capital Valuing and Wal Mart, Ford, and Amazon.com

Human capital valuing and its problems are considered in a discussion of these three companies and human resource management polic...

Philosophers on Life's Meaning

one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...

WACC, NPV, and IRR Project Assessment

In five pages calculations for weighted average cost of capital, net present value, and internal rate of return are illustrated in...

A Comparison between the Puritans and the Cavaliers

and Cavaliers differ somewhat from those that are associated with Europe. What we most often remember in America is the differenc...

Decisions Involving Capital Structure

in the market conditions, or will come crashing to the floor. So, it would, one would argue, serve the company well if it were t...

Legal Positivism and the Philosophical Contribution of Hart

the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...

Humanist Philosophies of Immanuel Kant in Metaphysics Of Morals

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

Buddhism and Hinduism

Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...

Social Contributions of Philosophers

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

Knowledge Analysis by David Hume

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

Foreign Markets and the American Automobile Industry

meet the deadline (Jewett, 1998). The PNGV requires the Big 3 to work together in the research and development stages but then ap...

Science, Philosophy, and God's Existence

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

3 Corporate Case Studies on Financial Investment Losses

In eight pages the corporate losses of Proctor and Gamble, Sumitomo Corporation, and Long Term Capital Management Fund are examine...

Plato, Francis Crick, and Leibniz on the Existence of God

being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...

Charles Dickens' Hard Times

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 ...

The Existence Of God and Descartes' Argument

simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...

Philosophies of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Nietzsche

strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...

There is Never a Justification for Lying

lie to the police, and fabricate "evidence," in order to protect her daughter from possible harm? Or, should she allow her daughte...

Ethical Foundations Laid by Confucius and Immanuel Kant

have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...

2000 Case of Conjoined Twins and Legal Alternatives

II. Facts of the Case The case in question was presented to Lord Justice Ward, Lord Justice Brooke and Lord Justice Robert Wal...

Information and Globalization

well. Because of cultural and communication differences, there is much that can be lost between the language barriers which can m...

A Case Study of Avis Europe

This calculation is undertaken by looking at the long term liabilities, this is down by taking the total liabilities and deducting...

Philosophical Conjecture and Morality

exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives, which help maintain order and a sense of direction that otherwise woul...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Rene Descartes on Skepticism

He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...

AOL and Time Warner Company Financials

that of Control Video Corp (Alsop, 1997). The aim of the company at this time was to be an online company that specialised in the ...

Theories and Methods of Socrates and Plato

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

Joy Concept

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...

Overview of the United Kingdom Government's Private Finance Initiative

the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) (Timmins, 2000). In order to look at this we need to consider the concept and how it manifest...