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Friendship Breakdown, Morality, and Logic

friends, but whose definition of "friendship" differs. For instance, person A strongly believes that trust is an essential element...

Peter Balakian's Black Dog of Fate

In eight pages an overview of the text's basic elements is presented along with an assessment of the 1914 Armenian genocide impact...

Contemporary Religion and Plato

In six pages this paper compares contemporary religious views with Plato's philosophical concepts with God's existence, morality, ...

Morality As Seen by Austustinians and Thomists

Thomists and Augustinians are concerned primarily with issues of morality. This paper examines the two theologies and how they vie...

Roman Catholic Church and Moral Theology

In nine pages this research paper considers the Catholic Church's current theological stance regarding morality. Four sources are...

Theban Plays of Sophocles and Themes of Morality and Fate

In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...

Political Rule and The Republic by Plato

In five pages this paper examines political rule in a consideration of knowledge, wisdom, and morality in Plato's The Republic. T...

Without God, Would Morality be Possible?

existence as fact. However, the existence of God still remains unproven; the Cosmological Argument has been raging for centuries a...

The Argument for Progressive Taxation

the people. For many individuals, the idea that resources should be redistributed, and that the very wealthy should be made to sh...

Benjamin Franklin and F. Scott Fitzgerald on the American Dream and Morality

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Franklin and Fitzgerald presented morality and the American Dream in a comparative analysis of...

Stem Cell Research: Argument Against

of medical advancement that purports to save lives, the necessary research requires the taking of other lives, which presents a di...

Robert McNamara/An Ethical Analysis

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

The Internet and Pornography

There has been much discussion on pornography and the Internet. The law is discussed in depth as well as the morality of allowing ...

Business Applicability and Common Morality

truth. Six very simple, very basic principles that people in general should be able to handle without too much difficulty. In re...

Costs and Morality of the Death Penalty

In five pages the cost of capital punishment is examined in terms of finance and morality. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Materialism and Ethics Links

In five pages the connection between devoid morality and material wealth is examined with the argument being that pursuit of mater...

Theoretical Application of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant's Philosophies

In six pages this paper examines how the morality theories of these philosophers can be practically applied. Two sources are cite...

Morals and Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper discusses morality in a consideration of Immanuel Kant's theories in an examination of the universal free...

A Consideration of the Question Why Should I be Moral?

In this four page essay the writer turns to the philosophies of August Comte for an answer to the enduring question of why moralit...

Philosophers on Morality

In six pages this paper examines morality as represented by utilitarianism and as conceptualized by philosophers including Carol G...

Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche

concept of beauty, and or, justice. To be able to re-cognize these, one must have the memory of the idea which in an intellectual...

'Good Life' and Personal Ethics

not to take action. Self-defense is one defense of murder that has not only moral acceptability in our culture, but also excuses ...

Euthanasia, Abortion, and Social Ethics

In six pages this paper analyzes chapters one and two from the Thomas Mappe and Jane Zembaty edited Social Ethics: Morality and So...

Medicinal Marijuana Use and Ethical Issues

is anecdotal. Nevertheless, for many physicians, it is hard to argue with the results they seem to see personally. In prescrib...

Euthanasia, Physician Assisted Suicide, and Ethics

In ten pages this paper considers the act of physician assisted suicide from a perspective of ethics and morality and determines t...

An Essay on Animal Rights 2

This issues involved with animal rights are considered in this essay of five pages and discusses the positions of activists Tom Re...

Industries and Effective Supervision Methods

In five pages this paper examines how corporate success and morality can be bolstered through methods of effective supervision. T...

Plato and Confucius on the State and Society

In eleven pages this research paper contrasts and compares Plato's and Confucius's perceptions on the ruling state and society wit...

Turbulence and Taoism Approaches

In six pages this research paper examines the feudal China origins of Taoism in a consideration of its principles, characteristics...

Characterization in Oliver Twist

Characterization is discussed in this Dickens piece. In fact, characterization is the subject of focus but morality is a subject i...