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Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant

Challenge, then, for Kant, would come from the inherent process that man experiences as he moves away from nature and into a socie...

Epistemology's Philosophical Definitions

knowledge by comparing the encoding of conceptually related co-occurrences with the encoding of conceptually unrelated co-occurren...

Ethical Views on Euthanasia

In five pages a nursing perspective is presented in this ethical consideration of euthanasia and its related issues with reference...

Child Pornography on the Web

criminals - the children? While we might guess that a child would develop a sensitivity around his own sexuality, what often seem...

Democracy Supporter John Locke

In six pages this paper discusses how Locke's political philosophies may be regarded as advocacy for democracy in a consideration ...

Philosophical Perspectives of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

In ten pages this trio of philosophers and their philosophies are contrasted and compared. Ten sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Legal and Racial Perspectives Pertaining to the KKK

throwback from the days of slavery when whites wrongly ruled blacks. I. DEVELOPMENT OF THE KKK To understand the Klans mot...

Descartes and Heidegger in Samuel Beckett's Rockaby

In five pages this paper discusses how the philosophies of Descartes and Heidegger manifest themselves in this short story by Samu...

Utopian Political Philosophy Criticism in The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

In seven pages this paper examines Chapter XV of The Prince in a consideration of how it criticizes the political philosophy descr...

Enlightenment Philosophy and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

existence. Thus, he sees himself as something more than a victim. He simply has a less desirable fate than some of his peers. Yet,...

Truth, Absolute or Relative

In five pages this report discusses philosophy in a consideration of whether or not truth can be regarded as absolute or relative....

MacIntyre's Perspectives on Habermas, Foucault, Nietzsche, and Aristotle

In seven pages MacIntyre's perspectives on these men and their philosophies are discussed as presented in After Virtue. Four sour...

Duty, Morality, and Immanuel Kant

critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is nothing more than a veiled continuation of social domination. Distin...

Scientific Theories of Thomas Kuhn

break through by inventing a new paradigm are] almost always...either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they chan...

Reality Concept and Rene Descartes' Philosophy

until midmorning began as a result of his ill health (Gaukroger, 1997). The education he received here, which lasted until 1612 se...

The History of Wal-Mart

branched out from its Arkansan roots (Wal-Mart (a)). The corporation opened its home office and first distribution center in the n...

Scientific Philosophies, Realism, and Antirealism

Therefore, realities for these individuals would logically be at a variance. Francis Bacon, considered the father of modern scie...

Rousseau on Sexual Equality

This essay examines the writing of French philosophy Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The writer specifically examines Rousseau's discourse ...

Rousseau and Equality Between the Sexes

This research pasper discusses the work of Jean-Jacque Rousseau and how his political philosophy was one of the guiding elements ...

Only Technology is Necessary and Philosophy is Irrelevant

and that at each stage--as people invent new ways to communicate and manage information-we become in fact a different species. The...

Material Things' Existence and Proof from John Locke and Rene Descartes

In ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...

Personal Belief in God and the Theories of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Soren Kierkegaard

In five pages this report presents the philosophies of these men regarding their personal beliefs about God in a first person narr...

Abortion and the Philosophies of David Hume and Aristotle

In a report consisting of eight pages abortion is examined within the context of David Hume's utilitarian philosophy and Aristotle...

Human Soul, Event Causes, and the Philosophies of David Hume and Immanuel Kant

In five pages this report examines the assertion that there is a separation of the body and soul and that each event is attributed...

Competition for Christianity

In a paper consisting of 5 pages works such as 'Notes from the Underground' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 'Brave New World' by Aldous Hux...

Twenty First Century Philosophy

representation of the need to break free, the Enlightenment of the twenty-first century will, too, represent a philosophic movemen...

Simone de Beauvoir's Feminist Philosophy and Theories

maintained that gender was more social and psychological than biological. In other words, girls grow up to be feminine largely bec...

Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

In five pages this paper examines Heidegger's philosophy as represented in Being and Time in his analysis of Dasein. There is 1 s...

Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron, George Orwell's 1984, and Egalitarianism

In a paper consisting of 7 pages these texts are compared in terms of their egalitarian philosophies and considers whether or not ...

Concepts of Saint Thomas Aquinas

has likely already noted that . Bracken (1996) suggests that what is missing from Aquinass argument is a distinction between per...