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Insight on the Priesthood by Avery Dulles

In a paper consisting of seven pages Avery Dulles' text is analyzed in terms of the current issues he addresses as well as the way...

Categorical Imperative and Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper considers 3 formulations regarding a single categorical imperative as presented in this philosophical tre...

Analyzing Plato's 'Republic'

role of rhetoric within the political arena. Therefore, "Rhetoric is the expressed genre of the second grammatical person" (545)....

Brain Stem Transplant Questions

In five pages this paper questions the ethics of brain stem transplants in a consideration of an article on the subject and philos...

Definition of Black Philosophy

In five pages black philosophy is defined and a discussion of the validity of negritude is also included in the ways in which it m...

Slavery and The Social Contract of Jean Jacques Rousseau

In sixteen pages this paper discusses slavery within the context of Jean Jacques Rousseau's social philosophical treatise, The Soc...

Chapter 3 of From the Presocratics to the Present A Personal Odyssey by Daniel Kolak

In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...

Necessity of Evil in Philosophy

In seventeen pages this paper examines the philosophical concept of evil and then considers 'necessary evil' within the contexts o...

Education and Philosophy

In eight pages this paper discusses reconstructionism, progressivism, essentialism, and perennialism philosophical approaches to p...

Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche

concept of beauty, and or, justice. To be able to re-cognize these, one must have the memory of the idea which in an intellectual...

Books I, II, and III of Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

In a paper consisting of five pages the concepts of human good, the 'doctrine of the mean,' and 'phronesis' as presented in Books ...

Public Policy and Health Care

In twenty pages U.S. health care is examined within philosophical, legal, and historical contexts to evaluate the effects of vario...

Arguments Favoring the Demise of Hate Speech

In ten pages this research paper advocates an abridgement to the 1st Amendment that would prohibit hate speech in the U.S. with a ...

Law and Morality

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

John Locke's Theories and the Declaration of Independence

Reasonableness of Christianity, An Essay Concerning Toleration, and the Consequences of Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value...

Chapters Two and Four of Utilitarianism by J.S. Mill

regarded as being little more than attempting to keep a pig satisfied. Because man has the intellectual capacity for reason, he s...

Woman's Rights and Abortion

million are without water" (Jackson 20). All of these people are starving. In West Africa, the poverty is so severe that violenc...

Capital Punishment and the Philosophy of Thurgood Marshall

This 3 page paper gives a detailed analysis of Justice Thurgood Marshall's philosophical rejection of capital punishment,w hich he...

1934 and 1935 Long March of China

In five pages the march by the Chinese Communists over five thousand miles is examined in terms of philosophical considerations, c...

Comparison of Socrates, Alexander the Great, and Confucius

assignment to the highest post in the state which could be obtained by a commoner such as himself (Owen, 1997). In...

Legalism, Taoism, and Confucianism

In five pages Arthur Waley's text is applied to a discussion of Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism within the context of categoriz...

Zen Buddhism Philosophy, Suzuki Roshi, and Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper examines the philosophical similarities and differences between Suzuki Roshi's and Immanuel Kant's theorie...

'To Be is to Be Perceived' According to George Berkeley

In four page this paper examines Berkeley's philosophical concept as represented in his text Treatise Concerning the Principles of...

Thomas Hobbes and Plato II

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophical views of Hobbes and Plato regarding the state and democracy as re...

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

In five pages the pure reason ideal as depicted in this philosophical treatise by Immanuel Kant is analyzed. There are no other s...

Social Functioning and the Role of Justice

In five pages the social role of justice is evaluated by employing the philosophical views of Plato and Immanuel Kant. Four sourc...

Affliction and Waiting for God by Simone Weil

In six pages this paper examines affliction and its philosophical implications within the context of Simone Weil's Waiting for God...

Universal Natural Order

In three pages this paper argues in favor of a natural order to the universe from philosophical, social, and scientific viewpoints...

Cause and Effect Attacks of David Hume

In eight pages Hume's counter philosophical arguments to causality are examined with supporting evidence offered by Immanuel Kant ...

Views of Popper and Schlick on Metaphysics

In seven pages Popper's falsification and verification comparison along with Schlick's theory on verification are examined in this...