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Essays 1471 - 1500

Unity, Being, and Becoming According to the Philosophers

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

Comparing Synoptic Gospels with Plato's The Republic A COMPARISON OF: THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO AND THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS

knowledge which is only knowable and obtainable without the aide of the senses. Secondly, the Synoptic Gospels speak as Christ b...

Euthanasia and Medical Ethics

such morality, we render ourselves essentially useless. In other words, Lachs contends that it is one thing to expound about the ...

'The World's Oldest Profession' as a Degradation of Women

degrading 5. Throughout history we have evidence of right versus wrong; of morality versus immorality 6. In this way, it...

Anthony Rotundo's American Manhood

be a norm, whether one is discussing a Marmot or a Human. However, that being said, of course, there is a lot more going on in the...

Australia and Socialism

Yet its implied here. In most western nations (especially democratic and somewhat socialist nations), its implied that when a popu...

Johnson, Plantinga, and Hicks on Soul Making and Free Will

man defines himself as moral, good, and soulful (Hick). God has defined a purpose for humanity that is essential to mans forma...

Analyzing the Orientalism of Edward Said

their own power and superiority. There was no real learning about the culture on the part of the Westerners, but rather a sense o...

Overview of Homeopathic Medicine

a natural and interactive manner, while at the same time working toward prevention. While the Medical Association has typically h...

Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto

Nerdinger (1999) states that the fact that the Workers Club was modeled on the Doges Palace in Venice -- "albeit with Doris column...

Tom Morris's If Aristotle Ran General Motors

happens, people fail to achieve happiness and feel only increased levels of stress (Morris, 1997). If businesses incorporated Ar...

The Social Role of Women and Auguste Comte

the basis for an advanced society" (p. 229). She quotes from Comtes Cours de philosophie positive (published in 1855) and explains...

False Advertising and Ethical Issues

(Romans & Kiernan, 2002). Of course, that is debatable. Opinion enters the picture, but if a claim can be proven false, then one c...

A Review of Staffing the World

are quite remarkable. The company was founded in Detroit in 1946 by William Russell Kelly (1905 - 1998) and was known as...

US' Diminishing Democracy

freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...

Legislation According to Jean Jacques Rousseau

In five pages this paper discusses how legislation is represented in the philosophy of Jean Jacques Rousseau. Five sources are ci...

Marxist Class Concept and Overdetermination

In seven pages this paper examines the overdetermination theory in a consideration of the Marxist class concept with the division ...

American and European Naturalism

In five pages this paper examines naturalism and its impact upon the culture, art, and philosophy of the United States and Europe....

Enlightenment and Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican and Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year

In ten pages this research paper compares these works and how they encompass the Enlightenment philosophy. There are no other sou...

Epistemology and Rene Descartes

In five pages this essay discusses how rational foundationalism is explored by Descartes in his Meditations on the First Philosoph...

Causation and the Philosophical Differences Between David Hume and Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper discusses causation and knowledge in a consideration of the differences between the philosophies of David ...

Deciding How to Do the 'Right Thing'

In seven pages this paper examines morality and doing the right thing within the context of the fifteenth chapter of Bowie et al's...

Juvenile Justice and Morality

In six pages this research paper examines whether or not it is ethical to try juvenile offenders charged with violent offenses as ...

Section IX of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

Psychosocial Theories of Erik Erikson

in Eriksons stages. Each has two names: Trust vs. Mistrust; Autonomy vs. Shame; Initiative vs. Guilt; Industry vs. Inferiority; Id...

Religion and the Perspectives of Karl Marx

existence will continue and the thing that people are most afraid of-death-is something that is comprehended as tolerable. Death b...

Walter Kaufmann's Hegel, Text and Commentary

to discover the absolute. When you have arrived at the journeys end then you have achieved absolute knowledge. In order to attain...

Aristotle and John Stuart Mill on Virtue

is not that everyone just does what they think is right or what society tells them is right, but they sense that something good co...

Confucianism, Islam, Kinship Responsibilities and Moral Codes

particularly interesting examination of the variation that exists even in the face of a transcending moral code can be made with a...

Justice Conceptual Inquiry

"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...