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Legal Positivism and the Philosophical Contribution of Hart

the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...

Philosophical Conjecture and Morality

exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives, which help maintain order and a sense of direction that otherwise woul...

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder and Philosophical Education

In nineteen pages this paper discusses the philosophical education of teenager Sophie Amundsen in Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder'...

Journeys and Their Philosophical Meaning in 'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

student who is writing about this topic should consider the ways in which the each author develops the philosophical journey of ea...

2 Philosophical Questions Examined

the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...

Brave New World Philosophical Analysis

when they heard the ringing of the bells, for they would associate this with being fed. In Brave New World, behaviorism takes the...

Philosophical Concepts

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

Ethics From Teleological and Deontological Philosophical Perspectives

taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...

Contemporary Slavery and Philosophical Concepts

the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...

Philosophical Comparison of Benjamin Franklin and Henry David Thoreau

challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...

Taoism, Buddhism, and Zen's Basic Philosophical Differences

Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...

John Dewey and Richard Rorty Philosophical Parallels

our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

David Hume's Philosophical Arguments on the Global Presence of Evil

guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

Literature and Philosophical Themes

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

Philosophical Problems of Cartesian Circle

It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...

Comparative Analysis of Virtue and Vice

top the list. The Catholic Church is often quoted as having said, "Give me a child until he is seven and he will always be Catholi...

Ethics of Capital Punishment Case Study

The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...

Slashing Home Health Care and Ethics

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

Mozart's Don Giovanni and the Themes of Enlightenment and Class Conflict

the text should fit the music, not the other way around. His opera, La Nozza de Figaro, while following the parameters of the comi...

Perceptions and Awareness of Aesthetics

our manner of interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or ...

Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Ethics

the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...

A Review of Two Faces of Intention by Michael Bratman

There are many easily-identifiable situations in which an individual may have intention to act but cannot follow through with the ...

God's Existence Arguments

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

Analysis of Domestic and Global Terrorism

In eight pages this paper analyzes global and domestic terrorism from the perspective of the United States in a consideration of p...

Plato's Answer to the Question 'Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?:'

Republic, 2002). Therefore, according to this theory, knowledge of anything and understanding of anything comes from examination ...

Poverty and the Views of Plato

Indeed, one might readily surmise that Plato believed man was a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our igno...

Essence is Preceded by Existence

is characterized in a particular way; Sartre argues that "conflict is the original meaning of being-for- others." (Baron, 2002, PG...

Thomas Nagel's 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

that conscious experience is common at many levels of animal life, and Nagel (1974) uses the assumption that non-human animal form...

Meditations on First Philosophy and Systemic Doubt of Rene Descartes

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