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Essays 631 - 660
and "advisors" were, in many ways, far more powerful than the aristocrat holding office. Machiavelli himself was such a creature ...
that created a chasm between the haves and the "have nots." With people working for the government, and each getting an equal stip...
individual who naturally believes in true equality and empowerment across the entire population. The reasons it becomes so confusi...
wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...
philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...
address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...
arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on his off hour...
the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...
challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...
the effects of "Original Sin" (Hundersmarck 133). While Machiavelli agreed with this stance, he did not do so because of theology....
and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
between the patient and physician (technology, caring and values) are always present but may differ in balance. In addition, the r...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
- while a religious man himself - strongly believed to reflect mankinds futile passion toward Gods plan and the failure to realize...
understanding. For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our kn...
third wife and third child come a year apart between 1936 and 1937, while his next publication - A History of Western Philosophy -...
the solider represents the state and the people are merely innocent bystanders. At the same time, during a draft, one could also a...
(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...
of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...
it was necessary to develop an account of human nature....
being destroyed, ironically enough, by the very systems designed to preserve them. In his book, he manages to leave no one in th...
Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Mill.htm). An advocate of this particular perspective, "Popper thought that both Mill and Comte were wrong...
academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...
human comparable with Kants ideas? For Nietzsche, the noble human being strives to be alone, to stand up for himself, to take on r...
Plato and Anselm . He talks about seeking truth and wisdom consistently throughout the text. For Augustine, "Truth is one, and Go...
been described as "hands across the color line" (Quarles 146), or a belie that, "In all things that are purely social we can be as...
that anyone of Jewish descent or faith were in terrible danger, yet they chose to stay, hoping that it would go away, or that God ...
chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...