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Ethics and Removing Medical Patients from Life Support

In 5 pages this ethical consideration discusses 3 philosophers' views on removing medical patients from life support. There are 5...

Politics, Morality, Law, and Saint Thomas Aquinas

In five pages this report considers how Aquinas differentiated between eternal law and natural law in a discussion that also inclu...

Life and Philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In five pages this research paper explores the early 19th century philosopher's life and approach to philosophy with emphasis bein...

Socrates' Arguments in Phaedo by Plato

soul has two principal parts. The first part of this argument is that nature inevitably follows a cyclical pattern. All vegetatio...

Individuality and Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Henry David Thoreau

respond to and voice his opinions regarding the political events and developments of his time in England, but with a vision for th...

Sentiment and Reason According to Adam Smith and Aristotle

existing moral standard. This fact should be kept in mind in understanding that for Aristotle whether a certain kind of behavior w...

Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy

In five pages this tutorial examines The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell in a discussion of the philosopher's employmen...

Personal Property Concepts of John Locke

In eight pages this report discusses John Locke's Second Treatise on Government in a consideration of the political philosopher's ...

Book 4 of Plato's Republic, 'Justice of the City'

what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...

Sublime Concept of Immanuel Kant

In five pages the Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant is discussed in a consideration of the philosopher's sublime concept. Fou...

Investigating and Defending Plato's Theory of Forms

In five pages this research paper analyzes the theory of forms developed by Plato and then provides a defense of the philosopher's...

Justice in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince and Plato's The Republic

he considered to be the most significant reason society is its own opposing force. According to Hobbes, subjects of the omnipoten...

Common Good and General Will According to Jean Jacques Rousseau

In six pages this paper examines Rousseau's The Social Contract and Discourses on Origins of Inequality in a consideration of the ...

Chapter Overview of On Liberty by J.S. Mill

evolving to take its place (Terchek 583). Mill pictured as this new culture as giving rise to the "higher types" of culture and o...

Kierkegaard on Human Nature

or that their lives are even close to resembling those of the first disciples?" (as qtd. in Galli, 2002, p.62). He poses a good qu...

Anti Innate Principle Argument of John Locke

that standard then the entire concept of innate knowledge cannot possibly be true. He further argues that those who say...

Comparing Theories of Thomas Hobbes and Polybius

to be held in such high esteem as to the exclusion of all other government. Yet, Hobbes did not have much faith in people and tho...

Forms Philosophy of Plato

to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...

Apperception Principle of Immanuel Kant

circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...

Education and John Locke

independence of judgment marked him throughout his life (1998). While Lockes contribution to the ideas of education is quite sign...

Comparative Analysis of David Hume and John Locke

only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...

Evaluating the Paradox of John Locke

that people do have a duty to God, which is coupled with a duty to obey their ruler (Honderich, 1995). At the same time, Locke say...

Animal Consciousness, Physicalism, and Personal Identity According to Nagel and Locke

the only species that truly does not understand the depth and intensity that animals possess in their special consciousness. When...

The Concept of Forms According to Plato and Aristotle

deep down, but on the surface they are essentially chained and shackled. They are in the dark about a lot of things because they c...

Rawls and Nozick on Equality

traditional theory of the social contract" (Rawls 514). According to Rawls, there should be a "veil of ignorance" in regards to ...

Building Blocks of Scientific Study

reality rather than the expectations of the experimenters (Wolf, 2002). The scientific method for determining the nature and cau...

How Alaskan Boarding Schools Hurt the Natives

linguistics for these groups? The answer seems to be a resounding yes. Stories come from thee facilities and concern children bein...

Business Plan for ABC Books

computers at a minimal cost, but as much as possible, keep them similar for the sake of simplicity. Additionally, when purchasing ...

Issues in Staff Development

principals expressed views and their actual observed behavior Holland and Weise found numerous discrepancies. First of all, the pr...

A look at Regan Books

that sometimes confessions come in this "what if" format but that is really besides the point. The point is that the organization ...