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Leadership and Self-Deception

A 5 page book review on Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute, which is a brief but prof...

Sartre's Vision Of The Human Condition

of making choices through free will despite the perpetual attempt to define their existence as being driven by determinism. ...

Human Modification And Enhancement

antagonistic issue of ownership is one that transcends virtually all boundaries of what might otherwise be considered a civilized ...

Brecht's "The Good Woman Of Setzuan" - Ideas For His Audience To Reflect Upon

other less dramatic but insidious forces, we are left with Shen Tes cry for help. Like most works of art, Brechts play does not o...

Fields of Philosophy

to discern between what is true and what is opinion has led humanity toward incredible advances in knowledge over the last several...

Buddha And Epicurus: 'Self' And The Root Of Human

is looked upon as a way of enhancing bodily awareness in its sensual expression, which in turn trigger an enhanced awareness of th...

Both Modern and Ancient Views of Beruit and Cairo

is still regarded as sacred ground. "The citys long journey across history started more than four millenia ago. Throughout the ag...

Infant Attachment: Theories

Piagets cognitive developmental theory is devised toward all stages of ones development, however, it is particular pertinent to ea...

Human Rights And The Use Of International Legal Institutions

upon this perpetual effort has been marred by those whose self-proposed mission is to make sure only certain people are privileged...

Octavio Paz/Diego Rivera

portrays him "wearing the local costume of the Cuernavaca region and carrying a sugarcane=cutters machete ("Agrarian Leader Zapata...

Massie Affair & Detective Fiction

PBS, tells the story of this despicable episode in the history of American jurisprudence. The saga of the Massie Affair begins in ...

Kant/Speculative Beginning of Human History

A 3 page reaction paper to Immanuel Kant’s 1786 text “Speculative Beginning of Human History,” which draws on the Judeo/Christian ...

The Problem with Trope Theory

one could say that what if one collects a number of red apples, but they are all different kinds. There are Macintosh, red Delicio...

Locke and Hume on Knowledge

do believe that knowledge comes from testing, such as in science, and has little to do with experience. This is because experience...

The Difference Between Human and Non-Human Animals

way they are like human beings who are mentally handicapped. Animals have souls and are loving and lovable, but they do not have t...

An Analysis of the Ideas of Hume and Ayer

classic volume, the philosopher demonstrates that people know the causes of events but that this knowledge is really perhaps based...

A Philosophical Look at Animal Testing

if cats and dogs and other animals are pets and viewed as members of the family, how can people experiment on them and then put th...

A Comparison of Kant's Enlightened Human Being with Nietzsche's Noble Human Being

human comparable with Kants ideas? For Nietzsche, the noble human being strives to be alone, to stand up for himself, to take on r...

Ideas about Peace and War

theories abound, and this idea actually seemingly did spark speculation about other black leaders deaths, it seems that at the ver...

The Extent to Which Assumptions are Used in the Decision Making Process

wet because a toddler had an "accident" or there is blood everywhere because someone was murdered. Clearly, the bed might have bee...

Carl L. Becker's Rejection of Popular Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

Cartesian Rationalism from a Critical Viewpoint

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

Examining Suicide from a Fresh Perspective

suicide ideation is often aligned with a lack of clear thinking. Thus, suicide should not be prohibited or encouraged, but rather ...

Iron Giant Cartoon, Humanity, Personal Choices, and the Philosophies of David Hume, William Blake, and John Locke

giant metal man falling into the sea. Hogarth is the only one that believes him and rushes away to search in likely places for the...

Nursing Model on Human to Human Relationship by Joyce Travelbee

how the quality of this relationship affects the therapeutic success of nursing interventions. Major concepts (adaptation) : Lite...

Hume and Descartes Compared

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...

Moral Responsibility, Determinism, and Free Will

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

Ten Years After the Second World War, Human Endurance and Human Cruelty

always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him something...

Case Study Analysis and the Philosophies of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...

Philosophers Compared and Contrasted

The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...