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course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...

in his account when he passed away. The email provider Yahoo claimed that due to a terms of service agreement, they could not allo...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...

defines pornography, which is that they do not know what it is, but they know it when they see it (11). Similarly, it is not out o...

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

consider that if an entity, such as a nation, is to grow and become prosperous there will be enemies and as such perhaps war is es...

education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relati...

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

while in society today, the concept is well accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and ...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...

considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

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

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

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

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

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

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...