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the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

the "moral" issues which have been registered in regards to two or more human sharing the same genetic code (DNA). This cannot pro...

support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...

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...

the fetus. Pro-choice individuals often argue that the fetus is nothing more than a part of the womans body, with no more signific...

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

Moltmann's ideas are used to incite discussion on time and space issues in this paper of fourteen pages with time defined and the ...

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

political ends, one should do so through peace and peaceful activism, and not through violence. There were many other philosophica...

well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...

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...

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

himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

trade. Barbaric pursuits held no interest, and the Chinese certainly knew their medicine and culture were vastly superior. ...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...

who consistently place the needs of others above their own. The individuals who do this seemingly so naturally often can be diffi...

social order and how it was best managed. The founder of this school of though; Confucius, also known as Kong Zi or Master Kong, l...