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world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...
that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...
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...
2002, p.PG). The author explains that the things Occidentalists hate about the West are not just the ones that inspire hatred ; so...
the fetus. Pro-choice individuals often argue that the fetus is nothing more than a part of the womans body, with no more signific...
political ends, one should do so through peace and peaceful activism, and not through violence. There were many other philosophica...
lie to the police, and fabricate "evidence," in order to protect her daughter from possible harm? Or, should she allow her daughte...
have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...
and Cavaliers differ somewhat from those that are associated with Europe. What we most often remember in America is the differenc...
tendencies within society and the fact that people are far too concerned with their own well being to fend for those who cannot fe...
Many contend that while God is all good, man has free will and brings the suffering on himself. At the same time, animals cannot r...
are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...
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 ...
(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...
Barbour, time is merely an illusion (Anonymous, 2000). In his ruminations on time, Augustine contemplates the subjectivity of tim...
In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...
In five pages this paper examines Kant's philosophical considerations of religion from a moral perspective. Five sources are cite...
and Anaximenes (Is Philosophy Possible?). However, there were a great many others who contributed to the mainstream of postulate...
In five pages a philosophical explanation of world events is attempted and the Pakistani position following the World Trade Center...
as action vs. inaction, doer vs. writer and philosopher, and primitivism vs. modernism. The erudite English narrator of Zorba the...
not just, but rapacious (1998). It is instead a theater of adaptive and predatory deception (1998). One can clearly see that Thras...