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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...

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

II. Facts of the Case The case in question was presented to Lord Justice Ward, Lord Justice Brooke and Lord Justice Robert Wal...

and Cavaliers differ somewhat from those that are associated with Europe. What we most often remember in America is the differenc...

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...

In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...

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

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

of the group. Some groups, as in organization, are sometimes referred to as parties, Weber seems to state. Mostly, parties aim fo...

of the Catholic Church. MacIntyre introduces his principal thesis in Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by pointing out that form...

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

In five pages society's incorporation of religion is discussed in terms of several philosophical views that include mainstream rel...

does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...

lie to the police, and fabricate "evidence," in order to protect her daughter from possible harm? Or, should she allow her daughte...

have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...

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...