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Functionalism and Representationalism

the role it plays, in the cognitive system of which it is a part (Levin, 2004). Functionalism is an opinion about the nature of m...

Animal Rights Debate

She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...

Nursing Ethics

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

Death Definition That is Currently Accepted

once again began drawing air into his lungs illustrates how this is not necessarily a definitive component of being dead. As such...

Socrates and Immanuel Kant on Lying

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

Philosophy and Logos

persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...

Perfectly Virtuous Medieval City

to be happy, but to be happy he has to know what happiness is and how to achieve it (Alfarabi, p. 35). Here we come to the idea of...

Love Theories

to break up that civilization into smaller units. The point being, love is doomed because society requires multiple, sanitized re...

Dying and Death Readings

he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...

Thought without Language

to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...

Business Ethics and Moral Issue

reason" (Schlumpf 59). In modern society, there are enormous pressures that tempt business people to take shortcuts in order to ...

The Government According to Aristotle

that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...

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...

Occidentalism Article by Margalit and Burma and Global Hatred of Western Culture

2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...

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...

Theories and Methods of Socrates and Plato

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Rene Descartes on Skepticism

He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...

Joy Concept

is anguish all the time, but there is also a sense of joy at the realization that one is inextricably bound with another. This sen...

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 ...

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...

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...

Euthanasia or PAS

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

Overview of Perception

are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...

Philosophies of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Nietzsche

strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...

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...

Charles Dickens' Hard Times

does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...

Perspectives on Universality

(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...