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Euthanasia or PAS

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

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...

Applying the Concept of the Truth to Organizational Research

The writer looks at how the concept of the truth is perceived and the role of the truth in research. The concept of the truth is e...

Quine's "On What There Is"

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

Slashing Home Health Care and Ethics

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Ethics

the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...

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...

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...

Special Education Concepts

is fair to accommodate golfers who have disabilities because they gain an unfair advantage. However, such beliefs can be detriment...

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...

Ethical Objectivism and Ethical Relativism Concepts

In five pages this paper examines ethical objectivism and ethical relativism from a philosophical perspective. Two sources are ci...

Kantian Ethics Applied to the Abortion Issue

the nineteenth century, abortion was seen as the only recourse for women who had become pregnant due to being lured into the bed o...

John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant's Philosophies

In five pages this paper contrasts the philosophical perspectives of Immanuel Kant with John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism. There ...

Evil and Philosophy II

In six pages this paper discusses evil in the world in a consideration of philosophical perspectives offered in the Bible, Night b...

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 ...

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...

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...

Knowledge According to Rene Descartes and John Locke

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...