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The Argument from Queerness by John L. Mackie

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

Aquinas by F.C. Copleston

education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relati...

The Ethics of Belief by W.K. Clifford

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

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...

"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 ...

Saint Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274)

tutelage of Peter of Ireland to study logic and natural sciences (Kennedy, 2006; McKerny, 2002). It was there that he first met me...

Choosing a Philosopher

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

Marx and Weber and the Origins of Capitalism

if the Weber model is correct. Kilcullen points out that Weber "was perhaps the first great master of the major institutional fac...

Ethics, Justice, Love, Virtue and the Death Penalty

(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...

An Exploration of Consciousness

It is not the awareness, however, which overrides the ignorance, it is the cognition (Mohanty, 2001). Knowledge in this regard ca...

Bertrand Russell: The Value Of Philosophy

third wife and third child come a year apart between 1936 and 1937, while his next publication - A History of Western Philosophy -...

Fallacious, Informal Proof Argument Defending A Grade

a B by virtue of having the same answers as the student who actually did his own work on the final (Cohen, 2004)....

Love According to Soren Kierkegaard’s Works of Love

It is the spiritual and unconditional love for another person. The self, in essence, must be entirely removed from the equation. ...

"Faust" and "Madame Bovary"

who is, for a good many people, the most entertaining character in the play. Mephistopheles manipulates Faust so that he "loves an...

White Noise by DeLillo

information we get today, seems to argues such things as the benefits of something but the dangers of that same item. Today people...

The Arguments For Torture; Are They Right?

in order to extract the location. While it may be distasteful and unconstitutional, it can also be argued as necessary. The tortur...

Proslogion By Anselm Of Canterbury

his original conclusion that God exists, a being greater than can be conceived. Question: Is this a devotional work or a philoso...

The Pursuit of Happiness via Pleasure and Detachment

to end in failure. This paper will explore the pursuit of happiness in the context of the balance between two traditional extremes...

Father of Gospel, Thomas A. Dorsey

This essay presents a detailed overview of the career of Thomas A. Dorsey, the Father of Gospel Music. Also, the writer describes ...

Two Native American Narratives

This essay offers a comparison between Sherman Alexie's "The Trial of Thomas Builds-The-Fire" and "Turtle Lake" by Gloria Bird. Th...

GE and Change

Thomas Edison founded General Electric (GE) in 1878 in Menlo Park, New Jersey. He subsequently merged his company with another. Me...

Excalibur, A Cinematic Representation of Arthurian Legend

his sword and kneels commanding that his enemy should knight him. Overcome with Arthurs bravery, as the noble could just as easily...

Relationship between More and Rich in A Man for All Seasons

Robert Bolts play A Man for All Seasons dramatizes the human relationships and motivations that led to the execution of Sir Thomas...

Problems of Government, Thomas Jefferson

their independence from the greatest military power in the world at that time, the idea of a democracy that considered sovereignty...

The "Elegy" of Thomas Gray

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at Thomas Gray's "Elegy". Themes are analyzed through various discussion questions. Pap...

Is There a Population Problem?

This research paper discusses the positions espoused by classical economists Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo pertaini...

Updike and Thomas - Perspectives on Death

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at the works of John Updike and Dylan Thomas. Themes of death are contrasted between "...

"Coastal Scene with Shipping and Cattle" by Thomas Gainsborough

This essay provides analysis of Thomas Gainsborough's "Coastal Scene with Shipping and Cattle." describing its artistic characteri...

Enlightenment Arguments for and against Separation of Church and State

to petition the government for a redress of grievances" ("First Amendment")). The idea of the separation of church and state was i...

Maxine Hong Kingston/Warrior Woman

property rather than fellow human beings. Tourist information on St. Thomas indicates that St. Thomas Market Square is today a "...