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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...

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...

Montesquieu, Hobbes, and Spinoza on Political Theory

to whether or not people need law, or whether or not they can regulate society themselves. The idea of anarchy is supported by som...

Modern Leadership and Classic Political Theory

as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...

Chapter 3 of From the Presocratics to the Present A Personal Odyssey by Daniel Kolak

In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...

Overview of Natural Law

In six pages the theoretical perspectives of Cicero, Hobbes, and Aquinas are contrasted and compared as they relate to natural law...

Private Property and Philosophy

In seven pages this paper discusses private property in a discussion of social contract theory, the views of Rousseau, Hobbes, and...

Organization of Human Society

This paper examines human society organization in this overview of social institutions, pluralism and elitism differences, case an...

Hobbes and Mao's Absolute Sovereignty

of education during Maos command proved extremely difficult to achieve, inasmuch as the entire education system crumbled and the w...

Questions on Aristotle and Hobbes

Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...

The Effects of Society on Human Behavior

This paper addresses various literary works relating to human behavior and society. The author discusses George Orwell's work Sho...

Age 18 or 21

There is some controversy over the ages 18 and 21. For instance, in some states a person who is 18 can order an alcoholic beverag...

Application of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

grounds of incompatibility with the purpose of the treaty and opposed the treaty unless this reservation was withdrawn. State 2 al...

Religious Profiling Or Reasonable Outreach?

or social sect are potential perpetrators merely by association. This reflects the harm principle of this situation, inasmuch as ...

Thoreau/Nature Essays

imposed boundaries. He asks, "What sort of a country is that where the huckleberry fields are private property? When I pass such f...

Bernard & Krieger/Knowledge & Power

removed, "the phenomena will no longer appear" (Bernard 55). As this illustrates, Bernards goal in his research was integrate the ...

United States' Marketing of Sainsbury's

will have to deal with. The core competence of Wal-Mart is to being good quality ranges to the consumers at good prices. The com...

United States’ Involvement in the Vietnam War

involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...

The United States’ Deteriorating Relationship with Iran

the Shah enters the U.S. for medical treatment; Khomeini demands that he return to stand trial, and takes 52 Americans hostage (Ch...

United States' Continuing Support of Israel

West Bank combined (Zunes, 1996). Yet, Congress designates approximately one-fifth or more of its annual foreign budget for Israe...

Gulf States' Soccer League Planning

countries, which is also a motivation for the undertaking of such a project. The second aspect is then how this can be planned and...

United States' Defense Industry and Knowledge Management

projects which are "sponsored by functional proponents" (1999, p.23). Using online methods does help the defense industry to trans...

State of Doing or State of Being and Depression

with environmental factors (Field, 2002). This could indicate an interaction of being and doing, or indicate a predisposition to...

Laws Concerning Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) And Euthanasia: New York State And Florida State

transpired. Florida statutes 765.309, 458.326 and 782.08 all prohibit euthanasia, with the first statute explicitly stating that ...

The United States - A Reluctant Welfare State

the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...

United States' and Its Citizens Reputation Enhancement

With the use of a scoring system and a sample of non US citizens it is found that the most negative perception exists in the non C...

Washington State's Eurasian watermilfoil

all of the bodies of water within the state of Washington. Preliminary research and studies suggest that a combination of factors...

Student Questions on State and Federal Judiciary Systems of the United States

al, 1998). These case will concern the interpretation of the law in important constitutional issues and the applications of feder...

United States' Intermediation Sectors

the process. The goals of intermediation are varied. Sometimes they involve specialization in production. For example, in the au...

'If I Were President of the United States'

of the most important issues on the presidents desk today, and likely to be on the presidents desk tomorrow and for some time to c...