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defines pornography, which is that they do not know what it is, but they know it when they see it (11). Similarly, it is not out o...

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

the universe, in which human beings are pictured a being at the top of the pyramid to one that sees life as an expanding circle th...

first of all, wherever friendship or community flourishes, justice doesnt - and when this fades, justice becomes more important. S...

writer/tutor reviews Staels text in chronological order, the student researching this topic may wish to contrast and compare the ...

natures regiment. As such, familiarity does not lend itself to unaccountability or being troublesome to understand. Why, then, w...

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...

certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

morning and be blown up on a bus or go to a discotheque and be killed in an explosion. These are not unusual scenarios there. For ...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

In five pages such concepts as dialectic method, proletariat and bourgeois, and production's relations and means are discussed wit...

In six pages this paper examines these two philosophical schools of knowledge with the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and...

which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...

permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...

In seven pages the texts Eternal Life? Life After Death As a Medical, Philosophical, and Theological Problem by Hans Hung and The...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

In five pages this report examines how Kant offered philosophical distinctions between right or the responsibilities of justice an...