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Justifying the Iraq War Philosophically

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

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...

AIDS in Africa and the Influence of Culture

the following paper examines AIDS and Africa from a predominantly anthropological perspective, looking at their culture as a means...

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...

Some Outdated Theories of Max Weber and Karl Marx

class will be able to violate the laws with impunity while members of the subject classes will be punished. * Persons are labeled...

Mechanical Philosophy's Changes and Important Elements

dominated by Aristotelianism (McMullen, 2002). Due to the dominance of Aristotelianism, the idea of mechanical philosophy did not...

Biography of Sir Christopher Wren

the inner circle, much like the royal physicians (Jardine, 2002). His sister married and her husband, Holder, became Christophers...

Austrian Economist Carl Menger

much is really not certain. Other economists who emerged prior to Menger contributed a great deal as well. Menger did try to sign...

Overview of Home Health Nursing Field

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...

Increased Tourism and Cost Benefit Analysis

the dollar value of the gains against the dollar value of the losses. If the value of the gains exceeds the value of the losses, ...

Swedish Astronomer Anders Celsius

star through them. He could then compare the magnitudes of the stars by the number of glass plates needed to extinguish the light ...

Republic by Plato and its Concepts

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

Ethical Views of the Movie Saving Private Ryan

the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...

Choreographers Charles Weidman and Alvin Ailey

which included Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman (Beginnings of Modern Dance, 2004). By the end of the 1920s, th...

Sidney Jourard's Psychological Theories

the layers are slowly and systematically peeled away, revealing increasingly more of the personality of the individual (Williams, ...

Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and the Feminist Movement

of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the family to go to school"( Cather 172)...

1956's Roth House

property and outside of that a berm of round river stones. Roundness is the theme that catches the eye on approach to The Roth Hou...

Big Bang Theory, Gravity, and the Universe

the infinite density that comprised all universal matter during the Big Bang were said to "break down irretrievably" (A Brief Hist...

Politics and Ethics

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

Revolution Justification Argued by John Locke

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...

Accounting Questions

costs. If we have a payment of 1,200 per concert and variable costs of 400 per concert this will mean there is a contribution of 8...

Aristotle and Plato on the Soul

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...

Libertarianism and Hard Determinism

it will occur; which leads to the Conclusion: "no action is free" (Cahn, 1971, 39). Hard determinism argues that these two premi...

Education, Knowledge, the Human Soul, and Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave'

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...

Knowledge According to Rene Descartes and John Locke

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

Happiness As Defined by Aristotle, Is It Still Relevant?

achieve this level of human excellence by adhering to the fourteen axioms acts of Nicomachean Ethics, which included gentility, ho...

Religion According to Martin Heidegger

between knowing a subject and that object of thought and he presents this as an artificial distinction in that the object that one...

European Settlement by the Vikings

not really gypsies or vagabonds. They settled. In fact, they are most known for colonization (Roberts, 1993). This may appear to b...

U.S. Navy Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper

technology that would be more accessible to everyone through a common language" (OHanlon, 2001)....