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Law and Morality

In six pages this paper examines the philosophical attempts to reconcile morality and law in a consideration of such theorists as ...

Ain't I A Woman by Bell Hooks

same culture and social constraints that she includes as elements of her perspective on feminism. She was raised in a working cla...

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...

Justice, Murderers, Susan Glaspell's Trifles and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

Socrates' Life and Contributions to Philosophy

(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...

Socrates and Immanuel Kant on Lying

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

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...

Philosophical Discussion Questions

as a bridge so that people with different understandings can nevertheless come to understand and appreciate one anothers views. ...

The Vancouver Riots of 2011 - A Hobbesian Perspective

with one another and with figures of authority in order to maximize the best interests of each individual. When left without a cen...

Human Nature - The Philosophical Perspective

view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...

The Pursuit of Happiness via Pleasure and Detachment

to end in failure. This paper will explore the pursuit of happiness in the context of the balance between two traditional extremes...

An Overview of Philosophical Egocentrism

"endowed with special grace or powers" (Christian, 2008). It is easy to understand how such claims are perpetuated and reinforced:...

Politics and Ethics - A Philosophical Overview

to explore the views of human nature of Plato and other thinkers, as well as how these views were expressed in governmental form. ...

Research Design: Protest and Dialectical Materialism

however, the experience of individuals living under such regimes in the past may well be useful for understanding and interpreting...

Philsophical Issues

ethical theory that supports killing off twice as many people to save half as many because you like them better. That is unethica...

Philosophical Beliefs of Malcolm X

In eight pages this paper examines Malcolm X in a consideration of his philosophical principles. Three sources are cited in the b...

Virtues, Morals, and Ethics of Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky Scandal

In ten pages various philosophical methods are applied to the Monica Lewinsky scandal in terms of what might offer the best instru...

Ethics and Policy Regarding the Workplace and AIDS

In a paper consisting of eight pages ethical policy concerns are applied to AIDS and the workplace with liberal philosophical view...

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...

Augustine, Plato, and Anthropology

In five pages the ways in which anthropology is reflected in the philosophical works of Augustine and Plato are examined. Five so...

American Poverty and Philosophy

The poor in America are considered in a paper consisting of five pages in which various ethical philosophical perspectives includi...

Heaven and Chinese Humanism

In seven pages the various Chinese philosophical approaches to heaven are considered in an examination of Confucius, Mo Zi, Zhuang...

A Human Mind Inquiry

Thomas Reid's philosophical perspectives are examined in this paper consisting of nine pages in terms of perceptual senses, visual...

2000 U.S. Presidential Election

In seventeen pages this paper examines how the media portrayed candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore with an illustration of philo...

Issues Pertaining to Economic Philosophy

This research paper examines eight questions that pertain to issues concerning economic philosophy. The topics addressed include t...

Antoine de Saint Exupery's The Little Prince and Its Philosophical Aspects

In five pages this report discusses personal desire understanding and freedom as metaphorically depicted in Antoine de Saint Exupe...

Happiness According to Immanuel Kant and Aristotle

ethical relativism is to examine the wide and varying societal rules that bind one to ones cultural existence. Indeed, it is impo...

Death and Philosophical Perspectives

In 10 pages death is examined from the philosophical perspectives of Foucault, Heidegger, Nietzsche, modern deconstructionalism, a...