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In seven pages this paper discusses private property in a discussion of social contract theory, the views of Rousseau, Hobbes, and...
a relatively ordinary life: parents were moderate middle class He was able to complete school and did go away to college to stud...
the many delights of civilization, and thus showing Enkidu this type of pleasure is important (PG). Enkidu himself however sees i...
This research paper addresses eight specific quetions, offering answers, concerning issues that pertain to Kant, Mill and Aristotl...
texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...
what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...
This paper examines the true meaning of the very vague word, good. The author points out that the word has two separate and unique...
In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...
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...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...
but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...
In twenty pages this paper examines Great Britain's post compulsory education from political, cultural, and socioeconomic perspect...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...
world, one would find the "ideal tree of which all trees which we see are copies, the ideal house and ideas of all other objects i...
the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...
contributions to ethical and social theory" (Anonymous John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, 2002; MILL.HTM). In his work "Principles of ...
of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...
Camus relates the substance of the Greek myth and how Sisyphus was condemned to endlessly roll a rock up a hill in the underworld,...
(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...
that Piaget didnt recognize that children could learn from their environment, however. Indeed, Piagets work reinforced the common...
considered his philosophy to be heresy. Abbey (2004) notes that the work which gained Diderot the charge of disseminating pornogr...
lived in a society where multifetal pregnancy reduction was a socially acceptable alternative to the numerous fetuses produced by ...