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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...

permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...

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...

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