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Concepts of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

is the part of a wise man to believe them no further than right reason makes that which they say appear credible." In other words...

Stanley Cavell and the Truth of Skepticism by Fergus Kerr

natures regiment. As such, familiarity does not lend itself to unaccountability or being troublesome to understand. Why, then, w...

Sidney Jourard's Psychological Theories

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

Overview of Home Health Nursing Field

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

Religion and Philosophical Problems

solution. Rousseau was an individual who attempted to incorporate civil religion as that solution. One author tells us that "Rouss...

A Coroporate Morality Case Study

the company as well as its profitability is important to him. Ellis will likely want to go for the deal but the situation does get...

A Corporate Morality Case Study

the company as well as its profitability is important to him. Ellis will likely want to go for the deal but the situation does get...

Ethics and Business

new. The result was the death of the brand, all ferries were gradually changed to P&O ferries, the name of the parent company, but...

Perception and Logic in Philosophy

conclusions. Most logical claims can be refuted. Thus, logic in some way is not much better than perception. At least, one can say...

Expansion of Paper on Nursing Delegation and Shared Governance

of the patient (beneficence); * does not perform functions that can do harm to the patient (non-malficence); * practice fairness...

Ethics and Biogenetics

to heart disease and diabetes (Webster, 1999). Thanks to biogenetics, in fact, researchers can grow human cells in the laboratory ...

Boeing Company and Theories of Ethics

2004). John Stuart Mills, in his book Utilitarianism, further stated that not all forms of pleasure were of equal value (Free-Defi...

Practical Ethics by Peter Singer

the universe, in which human beings are pictured a being at the top of the pyramid to one that sees life as an expanding circle th...

Plato and John Stuart Mill on Social Freedom

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

Badwar's Inverse Proportionality Criticism in 'The Circumstance of Justice'

first of all, wherever friendship or community flourishes, justice doesnt - and when this fades, justice becomes more important. S...

On Germany by Madame Germaine de Stael

writer/tutor reviews Staels text in chronological order, the student researching this topic may wish to contrast and compare the ...

St. Anselm's Ontological Argument from Philosophical Perspectives

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

Comparison of Aristotle and Plato's Views with Sophist Perspectives

What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...

Great Philosophers and Contemporary Leadership

of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...

Knowing Truth That Has Not Been Proven

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

First Person Narrative of a 'Bad' Day

certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...

Rene Descartes and David Hume on Knowledge

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

Symposium of Plato and the Concept of Objectified Love

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

Is There Ever a Justification for Terrorism?

morning and be blown up on a bus or go to a discotheque and be killed in an explosion. These are not unusual scenarios there. For ...

Philosophy of George Berkeley

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

Philosophical Dilemmas of Mind and Body

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

Plato and Singer

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

Mind, Time, and Space According to Critique on Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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

Philosophical Concept Known as 'the Great Chain of Being'

of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...

Philosophy of Socrates

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...