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Essays 1951 - 1980

Lewis Mumford, A Life by Donald Miller

gave the commencement speech at his daughters graduation from Radcliffe, he concisely summed up the essence of what he found to be...

Moral Philosophy and Evolutionary Theory

for existence in which the fittest members of a varying population survive, reproduce, and pass on their traits to the next genera...

Information Technology Responsibilities and Professional Ethics

Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...

Existence and the Philosophies of Simon de Beauvoir, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Rawls, and William James

were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...

Skeptical Human Understanding of David Hume

that the object of thought is capable of being. Hume understands that, quite simplistically, the soul is simply . . . the soul. ...

Case Study on Making Ethical Decisions

hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Andrew, but it can be assured that there is...

Introduction to Major Philosophers and Their Philosophies

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

Transcendental Unity

This research paper examines Kant's philosophy of transcendental deduction, with a specific focus on the transcendental unity of a...

Humanism and Educational Philosophy

done right and what potentially could go wrong, in the end one has to choose the model or models that most closely resemble ones o...

'The Aurora of Autumn and the Plain Sense of Things' by Wallace Stevens and 'Wasteland' by T.S. Eliot Compared and Contrasted

to is none other than that of the Romantic period. The person who considered himself a romantic, too, would question some of life...

Philosophy of Idealism

the mind" then "no physical thing exists outside the mind" (McGreal 252). Third, primary qualities such as solidity, extension, sh...

Considerations on France by Joseph de Maistre

his own mind is anarchy. "The churches are closed, or opened only for the noisy discussions and drunken revels of a frenzied peopl...

America's Civil War, Literature, and Art

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

Philosophy, Art and Literature During the Time of the Civil War

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

Alienation in The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Without the pressures of the capitalist system, Marx was of the opinion that work could make a valuable contribution to the labour...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and the Influence of Charles Darwin

notch to become a tale about the near-extinction of a species - that is, the family called the DUrbervilles - and how they attempt...

A Capital Punishment Analysis

according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...

Cesar Chavez, the Man, the Union Organizer, and the Minority Rights' Activist

told us we had to leave, or go to jail. My mother came out of the house crying, we children knew there was trouble, but we were c...

Requiring HIV Testing of Women Who Are Pregnant

even know that IV drug use is. Should such persons be subject to taking unnecessary tests, or rather, should the government trust ...

David Hume, Atheism, and Immorality

This paper written in a letter style consists of five pages and examines the contention that David Hum was an atheist and then con...

Purpose and Meanings of Western Philosophy

This research essay considers Western philosophy in an overview of purpose and meanings consisting of five pages and includes an a...

Theories of Henrik Ibsen and Soren Kierkegaard

This paper examines concepts of paradox and passion, women's social position, and individual autonomy in the philosophy of Soren K...

Combination of Economic and Political Themes in 'The Communist Manifesto'

in 5 pages, this essay combines the very themes that were considered within the contexts of the Industrial Revolution and the Fre...

The Philosophy of Money by Georg Simmel

acquire otherwise. While people must join the labor force in order to accumulate money, Simmel was of the opinion that they did s...

Knowledge of the World Theory of David Hume

In five pages this paper examines David Hume's philosophy regarding knowledge and how it is based upon immediate perceptual experi...

Structural Engineering and Ethics

In seventeen pages the collapses of several structural buildings in Asia are discussed in a consideration of design ethics and com...

Film The Battle of Algiers

an organization led by the people of French Algeria in opposition to the racist imperial control of the French. The FNL sought an...

Components of the Philosophy of David Hume

In five pages this paper discusses the religious existence of man and the causal relationships theory as they pertain to the philo...

Holistic Approach to the Philosophy of Nursing

In five pages this paper discusses how nursing philosophy can be holistically applied. Five sources are cited in the bibliography...

Educational Philosophies of Rene Descartes

In five pages Descartes' philosophies regarding education are discussed and whether or not there is any evidence of them in the co...