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Essays 451 - 480
should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...
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...
to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...
In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...
that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...
while in society today, the concept is well accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and ...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...
which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...
other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
trade. Barbaric pursuits held no interest, and the Chinese certainly knew their medicine and culture were vastly superior. ...
social order and how it was best managed. The founder of this school of though; Confucius, also known as Kong Zi or Master Kong, l...
2002). It is the dominant religion in India and Nepal Dating back to prehistoric times, it is no surprise that Hinduism has had a...
the ability to learn nursings technical complexities and already have full command of ethical values to the point that the can act...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...
Republic, 2002). Therefore, according to this theory, knowledge of anything and understanding of anything comes from examination ...
Indeed, one might readily surmise that Plato believed man was a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our igno...
is characterized in a particular way; Sartre argues that "conflict is the original meaning of being-for- others." (Baron, 2002, PG...
that conscious experience is common at many levels of animal life, and Nagel (1974) uses the assumption that non-human animal form...
and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...
of wildlife and marine life are being endangered as well. Business must make a better effort to solve pollution problems not simp...
one may see it as quasi-scientific determinism. Yet, from a Western point of view, Buddhism is considered to be indeterministic (A...
sense of direction that otherwise would merely drift in subconscious thought, which also helps to apply a modicum of understanding...
with the profits generated from their production of greater importance than the care and welfare of the animals (505). During the...
Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...
problems in the industry. Yet, while it is arguable as to the degree of safety problems inherent in the industry, it is safe to sa...