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Free Will and Determinism in Buddhism

one may see it as quasi-scientific determinism. Yet, from a Western point of view, Buddhism is considered to be indeterministic (A...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Life After Death According to Philosophers Heidegger, Ducasse, and Scheler

In this six page consideration of life after death various philosophical arguments are examined in an attempt to draw a definitive...

Peace is Every Step by Hanh

bits of philosophy. For example, transcendental meditation is thought by some westerners as being a way one opens the door to the ...

Debate Regarding Determinism versus Free Will

In five pages this paper examines the philosophical debate regarding determinism versus free will with the use of the texts Donald...

George Berkeley's Philosophical Dialogues

In seven pages this paper examines the 3 Hylas and Philonous dialogues and what they reveal about immaterialism and the philosophi...

Community and Inequality According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke

a moral fashion, it ceases to function in the proper manner and ceases to exert genuine authority over the individual. According ...

Overview of Drug Testing

In five pages the drug testing issue is examined in terms of various social and philosophical ramifications. Nine sources are cit...

Chapter 3 of From the Presocratics to the Present A Personal Odyssey by Daniel Kolak

In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...

Attack on Personal Identity by David Hume and Karl Popper's Response

In five pages Hume's attack on the self or personal identity is discussed as represented in A Treatise of Human Nature and also co...

Dialogue Between Gorgias and Socrates

In six pages this paper examines Plato's Gorgias which describes a philosophical dialogue between the title character and Socrates...

Political Philosophy Debate on the Abuse of Authority

In this paper consisting of seven pages a better understanding of such abuses as Amadou Diallo's murder by NYPD officers is provid...

Realism and Antirealism Concepts and Theories

In eight pages this paper examines realism and antirealism concepts, theories, and the impact of scientific, economic, ethical, an...

Morality and Ethics

consider the fact that when one stretches his ethical judgment and attempts to justify an immoral act, it can be argued that there...

Implications of Fertility Drug Usage

In five pages the medical ethics, theological, and philosophical issues associated with fertility drug usage are explored. Fourte...

1789 Objectives for King Louis the Sixteenth

In five pages a philosophical advisor writes to the French King in 1788 with recommendations for the next year and urges greater c...

Philosophical Perspectives

In 9 pages and 2 parts this paper examines religion, myth, and philosophical contradictions and then also discusses the 4 elements...

Thomas Hobbes and Aristotle on Human Nature

the civilization that had sprung up, flourished for centuries, and now stood on the brink of massive change in his native land of ...

Bertrand Russell on the Arguments of John Locke and Rene Descartes

In six pages this report assess which philosophical argument Bertrand Russell would support in an examination of Russell's Problem...

Coaching and Philosophy

In eleven pages this paper discussed athletic coaching and the application of various philosophical ideas. Two sources are cited ...

Contemporary Thinking and the Influence of Existentialism, Romanticism, and the Enlightenment

In five pages this report explores how the schools of philosophical thought that characterized the Enlightenment have influenced c...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke's 'Social Contract' Perspectives

In five pages this report examines what a 'social contract' means from the philosophical perspectives of Jean Jacques Rousseau and...

Jean Jacques Rousseau's Political and Philosophical Zenith Reached in The Social Contract

This report discusses Rousseau's writing of The Social Contract and what it reflects about his political philosophical development...

David Hume on Causation and Rational Belief

In three pages this paper discusses David Hume's philosophical belief that causation laid the foundation for rational belief with ...

A Speech Inspired by Anna Sewell's Black Beauty

In this paper consisting of three pages an animal fable speech that mirrors the literary style of the novel features similar word ...

Watership Down by Richard Adams and Home

In eight pages this paper considers how home is transferred from a physical to philosophical sense in this postmodern novel. Ther...

Philosophical Comparison of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophical perspectives of Mill and Kant in terms of the similarities and di...

'Political Moralists' and Morality as Viewed by Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper examines the concept of 'political moralist' and how it does not apply to Kant's philosophical ideas rega...

19th Century and Science's Triumph

probably the concept most applicable here. This concept is essentially the philosophy of history according to Marx. Historical mat...

Philosophical and Social Contexts of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

themselves against mans authority. It is important for the student to consider the fact that while one might understand the motiv...