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Social Philosophy, Distribution, and Production According to John Stuart Mill

contributions to ethical and social theory" (Anonymous John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, 2002; MILL.HTM). In his work "Principles of ...

Happiness and Wisdom in Philosophy

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

Skepticism and Knowledge According to John Locke

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

'Lying Promise' and Philosophy

lying promise is something that is said in order to achieve a favorable outcome. What if someone has a gun to the victims childs h...

Thoreau, Pieper, and Plato on What Philosophy Is

when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...

Romantic Period Artistic Beauty

ability to allow us the opportunity to interpret the rational through the concrete forms presented in art. Hegel believed that ...

Wartime and Ethical Considerations

the solider represents the state and the people are merely innocent bystanders. At the same time, during a draft, one could also a...

Hypothetical Scenario and an Application of the Philosophies of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant

the old mans money to the poor. While he fears being found out, when he is, the people not only forgive him, but elect him their n...

Skepticism Philosophy

(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...

God's Existence and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

Philosophy, Art and Literature During the Time of the Civil War

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and the Influence of Charles Darwin

notch to become a tale about the near-extinction of a species - that is, the family called the DUrbervilles - and how they attempt...

Alienation in The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Without the pressures of the capitalist system, Marx was of the opinion that work could make a valuable contribution to the labour...

Are Principles Chosen or Inherited?

the society and, subsequently, from the self. Sartres concept of alienation was certainly different from Marxs. Of course, Mar...

Reason and Religious Belief An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion by Michael L. Peterson

corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...

A Capital Punishment Analysis

according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...

Cesar Chavez, the Man, the Union Organizer, and the Minority Rights' Activist

told us we had to leave, or go to jail. My mother came out of the house crying, we children knew there was trouble, but we were c...

Requiring HIV Testing of Women Who Are Pregnant

even know that IV drug use is. Should such persons be subject to taking unnecessary tests, or rather, should the government trust ...

Philosophy of Mainstreaming

but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...

Considerations on France by Joseph de Maistre

his own mind is anarchy. "The churches are closed, or opened only for the noisy discussions and drunken revels of a frenzied peopl...

America's Civil War, Literature, and Art

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

People as The Ends and Means of Actions and the Theories of Rawls, Nozick, and Kant

through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...

Humanism and Educational Philosophy

done right and what potentially could go wrong, in the end one has to choose the model or models that most closely resemble ones o...

Twelve Step Meeting Philosophy

saying the above statement. The names change and the nature of the addiction changes with the substance, but the goal and reward ...

The Philosophy of Utilitariansim

on actions, then the argument would end there. Utilitarianism, therefore, is their effect on society and the world at large. Actio...

Philosophies of William David Ross

If we accept the premise, therefore, that science is capable of defining physiological death then we must ask ourselves how do we ...

Aristotle and Plato

theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...

'Will to Power' and the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

identifies Schopenhauers most distinctive contribution to philosophy as his "insistence that Will is more basic than thought to bo...

Philosophy Q and A

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

Radical Doubt in the Philosophy of Rene Descartes

philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...