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Forms According to Aristotle and Plato

In five pages this essay distinguishes between how forms were conceptualized by Plato and his student Aristotle with Aristotle bei...

Concept of Divisibility According to Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

fond of reminding us that the state of nature is an analytic, metaphorical, and rhetorical device - stressing individualist, const...

Existence of God According to Rene Descartes

In six pages the proof Descartes offered that God exists is considered but other relevant issues such as why he would have been mo...

God's Existence According to Rene Descartes

In five pages this report examines Descartes' First Philosophy regarding nature and God's existence as featured in his First Medit...

Economic Recession and Government Intervention According to the Policies of Milton Friedman and John Maynard Keynes

be greater demand and this would have the effect of lowering unemployment and reversing the progression of the recession. The debt...

Miracles According to David Hume

This paper considers the nature of miracles from the philosophical perspectives of David Hume in 5 pages. Four sources are cited ...

Liberalism Shift in America According to Eric Foner

In seven pages this paper examines Eric Foner's views on the shift from republicanism to liberalism in the United States. Five so...

Female Sexuality According to Kingston and Wolf

This paper examines articles by Maxine H. Kingston and Naomi Wolf, and discusses how society reacts to female sexuality. This fiv...

Love According to Andrew Marvell and John Donne

In five pages love as represented by Andrew Marvell in his poem 'The Definition of Love' is compared and contrasted with the poem ...

Body and Soul According to Socrates

In five pages this essay examines the mind and soul dichotomy as conceptualized by Socrates and represented by Plato in Apology an...

Political Authority versus Individual Freedom According to John Locke

In five pages this paper examines these conflicting concepts as represented in Second Treatise of Government by John Locke. There...

Utilitarianism According to Philosophy Professor Bernard Williams

In six pages this paper considers the views of Professor Bernard Williams, who is Cambridge University's Knightbridge Professor of...

Asceticism According to Matthew Arnold and Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold and On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich ...

Property Ownership Rights According to Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke

is clearly stated. Locke see that all land was commonly owned and the property of all of mankind, and as such there is a natural s...

Individualism, Society, and Political Ideology According to Alexis de Tocqueville, Edmund Burke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau

In six pages this paper examines how individualism, society, and political ideology are perceived by this trio of sociopolitical p...

Political Parties and Government Powers According to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison

In five pages this paper discusses a fictional debate between three of the U.S. Founding Fathers regarding government powers and a...

Feminism According to Allan Johnson

A paper containing five pages considers how within the pages of The Gender Knot Johnson defines feminism. There are no other bibl...

Women's Rights According to Edmund Burke and Mary Wollenstonecraft

were discounted. It seemed to be an alien concept to the philosophical thinkers of the eighteenth century that the freedoms that ...

Women and Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville

Stuart Mill (that is, if they had been contemporaries). Both men believed that the greatest threat posed by democratic rule was in...

Citizenship According to Plato and Aristotle

here, but Platos position that it is necessary to experience a thing in order to have knowledge of it informs the reading of The R...

Ethics According to John Stuart Mill and Mo Tzu

did not invent the principle of utility (which goes back to Plato) however, he was the first to devise a comprehensive theory base...

Race, Gender, and Class According to Georg Simmel and Max Weber

made up of fundamental interactions between individuals and that the unification of men has led to social laws that further define...

Democratic Rule According to Niccolo Machiavelli, Aristotle, and Plato

influential thinkers of the ancient age. Despite their obvious inter-related lives, they still had significantly differing opinio...

Self Discovery According to Henrik Ibsen and Samuel Beckett

eye-opening realization that throughout her life, the men that ruled over her, first her father and then her husband, never actual...

Justice According to Thucydides and Plato

has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...

Psychology as Science According to Wilhelm Wundt

capabilities and personality. Wundt and Change It has been argued that the contribution of Willhelm Wundt to the establishment ...

Human Understanding According to David Hume

determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...

Love According to Immanuel Kant and David Hume

rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...

Abortion According to Utilitarianism and Kantian Ethics

(Larue, 1998). This value determination was given a moral rationalization and basis through interpretations of scripture and relig...

Morality According to Kant and Mill

In five pages this paper offers a comparative analysis of the moral philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill. Four sour...