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worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...
biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
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...
which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
the "moral" issues which have been registered in regards to two or more human sharing the same genetic code (DNA). This cannot pro...
to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...
the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...
in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...
dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...
the text should fit the music, not the other way around. His opera, La Nozza de Figaro, while following the parameters of the comi...
our manner of interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or ...
and Anaximenes (Is Philosophy Possible?). However, there were a great many others who contributed to the mainstream of postulate...
In five pages this research paper considers Hume's philosophical text in an overview of its structure and main points. Six source...
Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
tendencies within society and the fact that people are far too concerned with their own well being to fend for those who cannot fe...
Many contend that while God is all good, man has free will and brings the suffering on himself. At the same time, animals cannot r...
was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...
personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...
as action vs. inaction, doer vs. writer and philosopher, and primitivism vs. modernism. The erudite English narrator of Zorba the...
This paper examines the true meaning of the very vague word, good. The author points out that the word has two separate and unique...
How evil evolved in Christian beliefs is the focus of this paper consisting of ten pages and how evil has changed in terms of soci...
In five pages a philosophical explanation of world events is attempted and the Pakistani position following the World Trade Center...
bits of philosophy. For example, transcendental meditation is thought by some westerners as being a way one opens the door to the ...