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Philosophers Compared

if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...

Eternal Happiness and God

In ten pages free will and God are analyzed in this philosophical essay with a critical examination of theories by Hume, Kierkegaa...

God's Existence 'First Cause' Argument Invalidation

In nine pages this paper presents the 'First Cause' concept and analytically proves it to be invalid with references made to the t...

Man's Soul and God Contemplated in Philosophy Essays

In three pages philosophers Hume, Descartes, and Aristotle are applied to the concepts of man's nature, the existence of God, and ...

Human Dignity According to the UN Declaration on Human Rights, Confucius, Judaism, and Veritatis Splendor

What is the ethical significance of those who are still not given the opportunity to earn a decent wage or eat a balanced meal eac...

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...

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...

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...

Endangered Species and Environment: Human Caused, Human Moral Obligations

the amphibians that are fortunate enough to survive will be battling against humans for natural resources. IV. The Amazon Basin A...

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...

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...

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...

Human Development Index and the Human Development Program of the United Nations

included many notables who would go on to be awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science (Mendez, 2002). Harry S. Truma...

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...

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...

Literature and Philosophical Themes

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

Humans' Routes to the Americas, Theories and Controversies

as walking, so the theory is that he entered North America using the shortest and easiest route which would have been the land mas...

Connection Between HRM and Human Resource Development

both external and internal; the use of organizational teams and cross functional teams; an emphasis on problem solving using teams...

Distress by Greg Egan and Human Values

ordinary life, one can take the comments at face value, or use them as somewhat of a springboard for further thought or discussion...

Erik Erikson

attended to by his mother (Boeree, 2002). When Erikson was three his mother, of Jewish heritage, married Dr. Theodor Homberger an...

Existence of Natural Rights

In five pages the existence of natural rights is considered within the context of John Locke's concepts and as they are manifested...

Plato and Euripides on Human Nature

wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...

Industrial Relations and HRM

(Silva, 1997). In todays organization development literature, we consistently find the word strategic - strategic planning, strate...

HCI Overview Human-Computer Interface

no date). This analogy becomes even more accurate, according to Dennehy, if one images that the stranger driving the car has poor ...

Comparing Human Learning and Reasoning Capacity to Artificial Intelligence

all: will machines one day outsmart their makers, and what consequences will this reap for the human race? When one considers the...

The Protection of Human Rights in the UK

when an examination is undertaken of the way in which human rights are protected, the value of independent organisations such as A...