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Contemporary Slavery and Philosophical Concepts

the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...

Music Philosophy

well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...

Perspectives on Universality

(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...

Liberty and Autonomy According to Immanuel Kant

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

Plato, Francis Crick, and Leibniz on the Existence of God

being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...

Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and its Rivals by Ernest Gellner Reviewed

governmental structures on both sides of the Iron Curtain, believed that the downfall of communism was inevitable. Consider, for ...

Homosexuality According to John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

This paper discusses the societal impacts of homosexuality according to the philosophical perspectives of John Stuart Mill and Imm...

Drug Legalization Philosophical Pros and Cons

In five pages the pros and cons of drug legalization are assessed from a philosophical perspective. Four sources are cited in the...

Social Justice Issues

not just, but rapacious (1998). It is instead a theater of adaptive and predatory deception (1998). One can clearly see that Thras...

God's Existence and the Perspectives of David Hume, William Paley, Rene Descartes, and Augustine of Hippo

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...

Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone According to Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper examines Kant's philosophical considerations of religion from a moral perspective. Five sources are cite...

Overview of Karl Marx's Perceptions and Theories

In five pages such concepts as dialectic method, proletariat and bourgeois, and production's relations and means are discussed wit...

Philosophers on Life's Meaning

one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...

Perspectives on Time

Barbour, time is merely an illusion (Anonymous, 2000). In his ruminations on time, Augustine contemplates the subjectivity of tim...

God, Nature, and Human Knowledge and the Philosophies of John Locke and Rene Descartes

what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...

Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus

Sisyphus himself perceives his condition....

Philosophical Views on Individual Good v. Community Good

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

Slashing Home Health Care and Ethics

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Ethics

the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...

A Review of Two Faces of Intention by Michael Bratman

There are many easily-identifiable situations in which an individual may have intention to act but cannot follow through with the ...

Student Question on a Person's Obligation to Obey Community Law

support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...

"Ferris Bueller" and Four Ethical Traditions

when Jesus says that "He has not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it."4 Theologians argue over the correct interpretation ...

Seltzer's Serial Killers

that society, or the perpetrators parents, should not be blamed for any horrific acts. The offender is the only one that someone s...

Ethics in a System of Inquiry

can help to guide the decision making and create a firm foundations that will help to ensure that the outcomes are the best possib...

The Vancouver Riots of 2011 - A Hobbesian Perspective

with one another and with figures of authority in order to maximize the best interests of each individual. When left without a cen...

Applying the Concept of the Truth to Organizational Research

The writer looks at how the concept of the truth is perceived and the role of the truth in research. The concept of the truth is e...

Why Should One Choose Nursing?

relational dyads, and the part of a larger social collective. Family values, individual culture and social constructs all impact ...

The Integrity and Corruption of Nations: An Ethical Comparison

contrast, lacks a culture that is belligerently opposed to institutional transparency, but instead engages in a more traditionally...

Argumentative Essay on the Personal Decision of Abortion

involves a critical evaluation of values and desires, and to act in accordance with them after careful reflection. Valuing a pers...

Quine's "On What There Is"

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...