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A Review of Two Faces of Intention by Michael Bratman

There are many easily-identifiable situations in which an individual may have intention to act but cannot follow through with the ...

Student Question on a Person's Obligation to Obey Community Law

support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...

Music Philosophy

well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...

Adult Punishment for Murderous Teens

"hoppers" and "superpredators" (Wagner, 2001). And during one week in California, youth committed heinous crimes including one 15-...

Analyzing the Letting Handicapped Babies Die Article

keep it alive" (Christian Answers to Moral Problems, 2002). Furthermore, in their article entitled "Letting Handicapped ...

Nursing and Ethical Values

who consistently place the needs of others above their own. The individuals who do this seemingly so naturally often can be diffi...

Cloning and the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...

Philosophy and False Relativism

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

Philosophical Views on Individual Good v. Community Good

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

Complexities of Self Philosophy, Language, and Consciousness

must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...

Justice, Politics, and Knowledge According to Hobbes and Plato

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons and the Moral Questions It Raises

the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke's 'Social Contract' Perspectives

In five pages this report examines what a 'social contract' means from the philosophical perspectives of Jean Jacques Rousseau and...

A Speech Inspired by Anna Sewell's Black Beauty

In this paper consisting of three pages an animal fable speech that mirrors the literary style of the novel features similar word ...

Clifford, Karl Popper, Insufficient Evidence, and the O.J. Simpson Case

In five pages this paper examines Clifford's claim that insufficient evidence leads to lack of believability in a discussion that ...

Philosophical Views on Human History

In five pages this paper discusses society's development in relationship to humans in a consideration of the philosophical perspec...

Political Theory of Jewish Philosopher Moses Maimonides

the context of a modern society. Certainly, today Maimonides instruction to beat wives who neglect their wifely "duties" would not...

Reasons or Causes and Individual Actions

In fourteen pages the causality of people's actions and whether or not they are rooted in reasons are examined through social scie...

Philosophy and the Concept of 'Good'

What constitutes good is considered from a philosophical perspective in five pages with the focus being on the philosophies of Pla...

German Middle Ages and Philosopher Leo Strauss

hearts of those he represented. It was Strauss ongoing quest to delve into the deepest recesses of German intellectuals and polit...

Alcoholic Patients and Liver Transplantation

In ten pages this paper discusses the access to liver transplants for patients who are recovering alcoholics from the philosophica...

Analysis of God's Existence

In eight pages this research paper considers philosophical perspectives regarding God's existence and includes David Hume's opposi...

Material Substance According to David Hume, George Berkeley, and John Locke

In five pages material substance concepts are considered in this contrasting and comparison of three philosophical perspectives wi...

Hegelian Dialectic and Karl Marx

In seven pages this paper examines how the Hegelian dialectic is viewed by Karl Marx in a comparison of philosophical perspectives...

A Sovereign Philosophical View

In twenty pages the relationship that exists between natural law ans sovereignty is examined through such philosophical perspectiv...

Human Nature According to Edmund Burke and Karl Marx

In six pages this paper discusses human nature from the philosophical perspectives of Karl Marx and Edmund Burke in a consideratio...

Humanity, Values, and Valuing

Indeed, the issues behind ethics and morality are critical to defining what meaning truly represents. One who has addressed these...

Community and Inequality According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke

a moral fashion, it ceases to function in the proper manner and ceases to exert genuine authority over the individual. According ...

Euthanasia or PAS

himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...

Shaping Business Ethics Philosophically

In this paper consisting of seven pages balance in terms of community interest and self interest are explored as are potential con...