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The topic of abortion never fails to be surrounded by controversy. Most think that this is...

Abortion is a hotly contested controversy in the United States. There is a very long history of abortion. Ancient and medieval civ...

the nineteenth century, abortion was seen as the only recourse for women who had become pregnant due to being lured into the bed o...

In seven pages this paper considers Hume's compatibilism philosophy and offers criticisms to examine how his position could be mod...

for others, such as Bentham and Mill. One of the positions for which Hume is famous is that we cannot derive ought from is, in oth...

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

In this paper consisting of seven pages the ethical issues that continue to fuel the abortion fiery controversy are presented in t...

pressures to reduce public spending and a general social trend for individual to increase their personal responsibility. The issu...

In a paper consisting of five pages the functionalist theory of George Homan is applied to an abortion clinic ethnographic analysi...

The abortion debate is characterized by two camps of argument. These camps are the...

to be called "transcendentalism" (5). The individuals who wrote about this faculty referred to it by different names -- e.g., "sp...

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

This essay responds to several issues concerning King David. What was the Davidic covenant. Since David sinned, why is he consider...

In six pages this paper discusses how Hume critiques man's knowledge regarding causal relationships which is based on the philosop...

In five pages both philosophical arguments regarding moral judgment are compared along with a consideration of why each would disa...

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

Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...

other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...

considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...

guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...

there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

(Anonymous The Philosophy of Ren? Descartes, 2002; phildescartes1.htm). In 1629 settled himself in Holland, a place which appar...

function can be said to be literal. In other words, what is inferred in immediately testable and will hold true for every person. ...

logically be at a variance. So, for the person uttering the statement about the validity of the solidness of the chair, it may ver...

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...