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Life Perceptions and How They Can be Impacted by Human Cruelty

inequalities. The progress is quite impressive among illiterates, the semiliterate, and the middle-class public that span every s...

Life and Contributions of B.F. Skinner

the head of behavioristic psychology. It is a scientific approach. In Skinners view, it is not individual decision-making that s...

Application of Plato's Metaphysical Tradition

In ten pages this paper applies the metaphysical tradition to an analysis of Existentialism and Basic Writings by Friedrich Nietzs...

Questions Regarding Plato's Dialogues Symposium and Phaedo

thought and action. There are times, however, when vice distracts these efforts and renders man vulnerable to a less ethical exis...

Absurdity and Humor in Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

In 7 pages this paper celebrates the humor contained within Catch 22 by Joseph Heller which puts life and war absurdities into a r...

Notion of Love or Precis in Plato's Arguments Presented in Phaedrus and Symposium

who, even for women, is feminine perforce" (Hoff, 1997, p. 215). Indeed, Platos Symposium exemplifies the need for virtue w...

Comparing Plato's Crito with Ibsen's Torvald

Tovald must deal with those of his subordinates. Despite his law background, he is employed as a bank manager and has a number of...

Meno and Plato's Arguments

they have experienced the fact that the truth simply is and is not an "issue" or understanding that can be discovered. "Meno" As ...

Righteousness versus Sin

days would come when God would make a new covenant that would offer "total" forgiveness (Jere. 31: 31-34). The writer of Hebrews ...

Ancient Literature on the Life's Meaning of Moral Order

Sophocles "Oedipus the King" Sophocles establishes a setting in which the twists and turns that ultimately led to the vision of ...

Plato's Writings and Security Disturbance

In five pages this paper examines how individual strength increases as a result of security disturbance according to the writings ...

Forms, Justice, and Plato's Philosophy

texts The Republic and Crito, Plato learned his lessons well. In both works, Plato theorizes what justice is through deductive re...

Weapons and Their Costs and Damage to Human Life

at taking 75 years and costing $50 billion. This is described very clearly in an article by Glenn Zorpette published in Scientific...

Social Revolution and Computer Technology

has been characterized by a constant stream of evolving products, innovative methods of production, and dynamic means of distribut...

Pathology of HIV

In nineteen pages this paper examines life stressors and immunity parameters as they relate to the pathology of the human immunode...

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...

My Antonia by Willa Cather and Structural Criticism

In six pages this paper discusses the first 5 books of this text in terms of its loose structure and how only the threads of civil...

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...

3 Thought Levels in Plato's Republic and Dante's Inferno

In five pages this paper discusses the connection between man's sins and the soul in this analysis of three levels of thought repr...

Suffering and the Human Condition

Four Noble Truths, is that all life is full of trouble and suffering. All religions recognize the validitiy of such a statement, a...

Modularity Theory

In seven pages this paper examines the text How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Gilovic...

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...

Review of Mike Krzyzewski's 'Leading With the Heart'

A 5 page paper that reviews the legendary Duke University basketball coaches strategies for basketball, business, and in life thro...

False Thinking According to Plato's Theatetus

Knowledge is true judgment. Socrates and Theatetus are talking about the nature of knowledge. Theatetus suggests that mathematic...

Abortion: Unborn Human Life by Patrick Lee

that this is necessarily the moment it became a human being worthy and deserving of life. In Lees work he notes that "The majori...

Kant: Good Will

"actions are morally right in virtue of their motives, which must derive more from duty than from inclination" (Kemerling, 2002) -...

Justifications for Selling Pharmaceutical Products at a Narrow Profit Margin

A problem has resulted surrounding the release of this drug, however, that could threaten XYZs profitability. The new drug is des...

Using Comedy To Explore Social Issues

great deal of the humor arises from the plays comic premise, which calls tends to suggest that the title of the work is something ...

Animal Testing and Ethics

have been made without the animals. Consider Dr. Thomas E. Starzl who was the first to succeed with kidney transplants (Americans ...

Plato's Contribution to Understanding Philosophy and Philosophers

academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...