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in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...
other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...
which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...
with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...
In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...
considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...
Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...
We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...
should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...
to be happy, but to be happy he has to know what happiness is and how to achieve it (Alfarabi, p. 35). Here we come to the idea of...
AIDS education is something tied to a disease that has only surfaced at the end of the twentieth century and may have no relevance...
he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...
but philosophers also argue that private property rights are necessary (even when they seem unfair) "for the ethical development o...
to be "yes." Problems arise however when we try to make certain that we are expressing meanings unambiguously; Quine among others...
reason" (Schlumpf 59). In modern society, there are enormous pressures that tempt business people to take shortcuts in order to ...
a prison takeover (Burke, 1995). Though unusual, if something like that were to happen, officials would be at an extreme disadvant...
interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...
to break up that civilization into smaller units. The point being, love is doomed because society requires multiple, sanitized re...
the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...
once again began drawing air into his lungs illustrates how this is not necessarily a definitive component of being dead. As such...
the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...
(Saxonhouse, 1998). This is something thought not to lead to violence, but rather to a profound gentleness (Saxonhouse, 1998). In ...
persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...
a B by virtue of having the same answers as the student who actually did his own work on the final (Cohen, 2004)....
It is the spiritual and unconditional love for another person. The self, in essence, must be entirely removed from the equation. ...
in order to extract the location. While it may be distasteful and unconstitutional, it can also be argued as necessary. The tortur...