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biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...

our manner of interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or ...

the text should fit the music, not the other way around. His opera, La Nozza de Figaro, while following the parameters of the comi...

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

to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...

worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

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

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

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...

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...

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...