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William Godwin's Idealism

In eight pages the idealistic philosophy of William Godwin is examined. Four sources are listed in the bibliography....

World Knowledge and the Mind

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

Victorian Critic and Poet Matthew Arnold

noted for acerbity or harshness in his work; even though he was in many respects critical of the way in which contemporary society...

Thomas Paine and Ralph Waldo Emerson

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophies of Thomas Paine and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Three sources are cited...

Buddhism and Hinduism

Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...

Comparing Buddhism and Christianity

01B). As a people, Christians are bound by the convictions that they are to possess honesty, respectfulness, charity, kindness an...

Ethical Theories of David Hume

for others, such as Bentham and Mill. One of the positions for which Hume is famous is that we cannot derive ought from is, in oth...

Saint Thomas Aquinas on Knowledge

professor is a good example of the difference between intellectual knowledge and sense knowledge. To take that a step beyond, and ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray Characters' Approach to Art and Life

and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...

Crime Deterrence Through Harsher Punishment

these facts: * Homicide rates increased sharply beginning about 1965 or 1966. The number of executions plummeted from 47 in 1962 t...

Marx, Machiavelli, and Hobbes

that man must first display characteristics that are shaped by his own masculine perspective. Machiavelli considered the nature o...

Mary Aswell Doll's Curriculum Philosophies in Like Letters in Running Water

of such works. On further consideration, in fact, the role of these authors in revealing the relationship between men and women w...

Mohandas K. Ghandi's Religious Philosophy

truth and freedom through non-violence. Non violence is the most beautiful gift mankind has received since the existing of civiliz...

Ethics and Advertising

In a paper that contains eight pages the motive for the existence of advertising through profit and persuasion are examined within...

Three Philosophies in Contrast

do was make sure students could read and write properly and have the skills necessary to access they type of knowledge that was ou...

Evil Resistance

which is violence. In regarding the worlds political climate today, we are meeting this challenge correctly: with violence. The ...

Nursing Philosophies of Betty Newman and Jean Watson

their roles. As a result, there is a need to temper the actions of the nurse in the carative environment with a recognition of th...

Artists and the Modernism of Andy Warhol, Helen Frankenthaler, and Jackson Pollock

movement, and the unofficial capital of the international avant-garde. This was as much of a shock to American artists as it was t...

Social Responsibility, Ethics, Sports, and Philosophy

of medicine, law, and theology has been expanded tremendously, however. Now there are professionals in practically every field an...

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 ...

Combating Philosophies and the U.S. Civil War

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

Goodness of Government According to Niccolo Machiavelli and Aristotle

theory is brought forth numerous times throughout Aristotles well-read and well-quoted Nichomachean Ethics. Aristotles vie...

Are Principles Chosen or Inherited?

the society and, subsequently, from the self. Sartres concept of alienation was certainly different from Marxs. Of course, Mar...

Nature Concept

and the construction company wants to get on with their job of building whatever. Henry David Thoreau, in Walden Pond, written i...

Philosophy According to Rene Descartes and Plato

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

People as The Ends and Means of Actions and the Theories of Rawls, Nozick, and Kant

through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...

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...

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...