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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...

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...

Ain't I A Woman by Bell Hooks

same culture and social constraints that she includes as elements of her perspective on feminism. She was raised in a working cla...

The Integrity and Corruption of Nations: An Ethical Comparison

contrast, lacks a culture that is belligerently opposed to institutional transparency, but instead engages in a more traditionally...

Why Should One Choose Nursing?

relational dyads, and the part of a larger social collective. Family values, individual culture and social constructs all impact ...

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...

Plato, Francis Crick, and Leibniz on the Existence of God

being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...

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...

God, Nature, and Human Knowledge and the Philosophies of John Locke and Rene Descartes

what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...

Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus

Sisyphus himself perceives his condition....

Social Justice Issues

not just, but rapacious (1998). It is instead a theater of adaptive and predatory deception (1998). One can clearly see that Thras...

Philosophers on Life's Meaning

one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...

Liberty and Autonomy According to Immanuel Kant

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

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...

Overview of Karl Marx's Perceptions and Theories

In five pages such concepts as dialectic method, proletariat and bourgeois, and production's relations and means are discussed wit...

God's Existence and the Perspectives of David Hume, William Paley, Rene Descartes, and Augustine of Hippo

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...

Private Property and Philosophy

In seven pages this paper discusses private property in a discussion of social contract theory, the views of Rousseau, Hobbes, and...

Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and its Rivals by Ernest Gellner Reviewed

governmental structures on both sides of the Iron Curtain, believed that the downfall of communism was inevitable. Consider, for ...

Homosexuality According to John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

This paper discusses the societal impacts of homosexuality according to the philosophical perspectives of John Stuart Mill and Imm...

Politics, Private Property, and the Philosophy of John Locke

and the natural rights that inherently accompany such ownership. Within the realm of life exists inherent elements to ones existe...

Drug Legalization Philosophical Pros and Cons

In five pages the pros and cons of drug legalization are assessed from a philosophical perspective. Four sources are cited in the...

Freedom According to Michel Foucault

for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...