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In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the radically different gun control views of presidential candidates Texas Gov. Ge...
In this paper consisting of twenty pages questions regarding such influential philosophers as Robert Nozick, Mary Daly, the Stoics...
This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...
This paper provides a summary and discussion of the text in 5 pages. There are no other sources listed in the bibliography....
In five pages the statement 'Democracy is not a mechanical device, it is, rather, a living organism that can only flourish in cert...
else can be expected but that creatures (angelic, human, and the rest) are also one as emanating from God. Dont say "creating" si...
Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...
In five pages this paper discusses human nature and the origins of inequality as viewed by philosophers Karl Marx and Jean Jacques...
In this paper consisting of seven pages a better understanding of such abuses as Amadou Diallo's murder by NYPD officers is provid...
own regions. For example, in New York it is legal for a woman to remove her shirt on a public, city street but few do so as they r...
In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...
In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...
in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...
dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...
of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...
the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...
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...
constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...
(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...
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...