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Essays 271 - 300

Utilitarianism and John Stuart Mill

this chapter, the highest normative principle involves the idea that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happ...

The Changing South and American Culture

colonial era provided this workforce. While, like the Northeast, the South was settled by highly religious people, these people ha...

Samuel Johnson's The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

something of value that could not be found at home, despite the fact that the home is paradise in many ways. "They go to Cairo ...

Happiness is a Serious Problem by Dennis Prager

1989). Competition is one of the many aspects upon which people base their happiness, a reality Prager (1999) says all but defeat...

Danielle Crittenden's What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us, Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman

these women are more often characterized by high stress levels and emotional insecurity about whether they have really made the ri...

Influences of Nature and Biography in the Works of Emily Dickinson

Dickinsons writing. While "no ordinance is seen" to those who are not participating in the war, it presence nevertheless is always...

Comparative Analysis of Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope

of land in the area and with whom Pope considered his family belonged. When Robert, Lord Petre had cut off a lock of Arabella Ferm...

Questions On Medical Ethics

further examined by comparing the moral reasoning with the stages laid down by Piaget, with more complex and mature reasoning only...

Happiness, Compassion and Religion

study showed that the emotions of "loving-kindness and compassion" could be encouraged and learned as sixteen "age-matched contro...

Poetic Analysis of Jane Kenyon's 'Happiness'

appreciate what it means to feel happy? The two most vivid images in this poem are religious in nature and are quite significant ...

Female Protagonists in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

In five pages each female character's questions about happiness are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources listed....

Sexual Fidelity

psychological health and issues of survival are best accomplished within social structures. The concept of sexual fidelity explo...

Life and the Search for Meaning

full potential in relationship to this peace and joy within themselves Powell, 1995; 3). In Mans Search for Meaning by Vikt...

Happiness for an Individual and the Determinants of Genetics

In five pages this paper discusses how one's happiness can be influenced by genetic factors that often determine an individual's b...

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt Summarized and Analyzed

In five pages this paper presents a summary of Frank McCourt's text and analyzes it in order to determine the meaning besides mise...

Closure in The Films Double Happiness and Breathless

The writer compares and contrasts the narratives and the issue of closure in the films Double Happiness and Breathless. The paper ...

Literature and Happiness Through Virtue

In five pages this paper discusses how happiness can be achieved through virtue as illustrated in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibil...

Philosophers on Happiness

In five pages the views of Sartre, Hegel, Marx, and Plato on happiness are examined in a comparative analysis of their writings. ...

Argument That Happiness Cannot Be Purchased with Money

he made suggestions that half of all consumption is wasteful (Lebergott as cited in Stabile 685). Veblen had good company as Adam...

'Right Action' and Utilitarianism of J.S. Mill

(4). As he explained in Utilitarianism, this pursuit of the greatest happiness is not based on mere human selfishness, but rather...

Happiness and the Existentialism of Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper examines what conditions the German philosopher established pertaining to the human need for happiness as...

God, Understanding Morality, and David Hume

In five pages David Hume's definition of morality as a sympathy concept is applied to his contention that moral views do not stem ...

Tolerance, Freedom of Speech, and J.S. Mill

in his views. Freedom of speech should be given precedent over the reaction which that speech may cause. This precept has been u...

Happiness Perspectives of Langdon Gilkey and Mary Gordon

She realizes that she will have to "invent an existence for myself" (Gordon 5). Isabel falls in love with a married man, and event...

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert in a Thesis of 2 Parts

In five pages this 2 part thesis on this novel first considers Charles Bovary's role in his wife's adultery and depression and the...

Gorgias by Plato, Justice and 'the Good Life'

In five pages this paper examines the dialogue between Socrates and Callicles regarding the arguments pertaining to happiness purs...

Society and Nature

This paper examines the concept that society has lost much of its humanity and happiness due to loosing touch with nature. This f...

Happiness and 21st Century Ethics

In three pages this paper considers the Dalai Lama's Ethics of the New Millennium as it pertains to happiness and how this may be ...

Happiness and Comfort, Beauty and Truth in Brave New World by Aldoux Huxley

This paper consists of six pages and focuses upon text chapters XVI and XVII which features a debate between John the Savage and M...

Chapter 5 'Equality and Impartiality' in Utilitarianism by J.S. Mill

In five pages this paper discusses this work's concluding paragraph in an analysis of its meaning regarding equality and happiness...