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away in the most inaccessible part of the abbeys labyrinthine library, where it remained for decades" (Essay on The Name of the Ro...

with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...

action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...

and nurses often object to actively participating in active euthanasia on the basis of their professional codes which explicitly p...

social order and how it was best managed. The founder of this school of though; Confucius, also known as Kong Zi or Master Kong, l...

2002). It is the dominant religion in India and Nepal Dating back to prehistoric times, it is no surprise that Hinduism has had a...

to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...

trade. Barbaric pursuits held no interest, and the Chinese certainly knew their medicine and culture were vastly superior. ...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

of fate. In the process, our sympathy is aroused" (The tragic hero). Within this definition, tragedy also is included in that it ...

We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

on which the man can stand (and is therefore the crown of the virtues) because Aristotle believed that a man who demonstrated prid...

dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...

defines pornography, which is that they do not know what it is, but they know it when they see it (11). Similarly, it is not out o...

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...

while in society today, the concept is well accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and ...

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...

were to consider what is most important in society, most would point to causation. One tries to get to the cause of ones drinking,...

with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...

not make up an ethical life. Rather, he based his ideas on his own ideas concerning reason, but he did so within the context of hi...

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...

and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...