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Essays 1321 - 1350

Literature and Laughter

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

Chinese Legalism and Confucianism

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...

Taoism, Confucianism, and Hinduism,

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

Character Sketch of Othello

of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...

Race According to Charles R. Lawrence and John Stuart Mill

anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....

A Card Game and Dinner Party with Guests Locke, Sartre, Nietzsche, Descartes, Maimonides, and Averroes

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

The Development of Utilitarianism

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

Reviewing the Issues of Euthanasia

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

John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism Chapter 4

He and a group of utilitarians formed a small Utilitarian Society based on many of the writings of Bentham. His many works appeare...

Pros and Cons of Abortion

the fetus. Pro-choice individuals often argue that the fetus is nothing more than a part of the womans body, with no more signific...

Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon on Realism and Idealism

to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...

Theology in an Exploration of Space and Time

Moltmann's ideas are used to incite discussion on time and space issues in this paper of fourteen pages with time defined and the ...

The Social Contract and Autonomy

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

Bhagavad Gita Use by Mahatma Gandhi

political ends, one should do so through peace and peaceful activism, and not through violence. There were many other philosophica...

Moral Responsibility, Determinism, and Free Will

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

Cloning Argument of Mary Warnock

the "moral" issues which have been registered in regards to two or more human sharing the same genetic code (DNA). This cannot pro...

3 Classical Philosophies and Animal Rights

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

Justice, Philosophy, and Ethics of Health Care Rationing

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...

Aristotle on Virtue

one is virtuous, and that their actions are virtuous, but that might be illusive. Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right o...

Philosophy, Ethics, and 'Doing the Right Thing'

agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...

Thomas Aquinas' Work

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

Civilization's Future, Women, and Liberty According to J.S. Mill

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...

Global Changes and Cultural Diversity

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

Euthanasia and Ethics

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

Karl Marx's 1844 Manuscripts Ideas

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

Abolishing the Patent Monopoly

biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...

Overview of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

Christine Busalacchi and Euthanasia

that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...

Analyzing David Hume's Essay 'Miracles'

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...

Aristotle on Pride

who think that they are worthy of great things, but they are really unworthy of them, and that is pure vanity (PG). He goes on t...