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Morality According to Kant and Mill

In five pages this paper offers a comparative analysis of the moral philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill. Four sour...

The Relations Between the British and Colonists Prior to Independence

This was in 1607. This colony was the first, and also demonstrated the way in which the problems due to problematic decision makin...

J. Baird Callicott and Environmental Ethics

necessity must be maintained by man but are not included in the overall schema of environmental ethics. This holds true because d...

Civil Liberties' Protection and the U.S. Bill of Rights

Thomas Jefferson this should be a task of the federal judiciary, James Madison also agreed that a system that utilised independent...

Comparative Analysis of Plato's, Hobbes' and Locke's Theories

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...

Symbolism and Theme in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native

supreme being. This attribution was fatalistic in that it meant that there was little hope for mankind overall, however. Man was...

2 Philosophical Questions Examined

the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...

Human Morality

correct, or is it morally superior to allow a twelve year old rape victim to have an abortion? The problem with morality is that i...

Human Understanding According to David Hume

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

America's Enlightenment and Pre Revolutionary War Periods

thought as Puritans came to America. Prior to the Revolution such ideals come through in writings by infamous Americans. For examp...

How to Prove That Love Exists

In five pages this paper tries to prove love exists by using Thomas Aquinas' 5 proofs of God's existence. One source is cited in ...

Concepts of Restraint and Freedom in Utopia by Thomas More

the society of sixteenth-century England. For example, the Utopian cities are all built on similar lines, at least as far as possi...

Reasons why 'Virgin Queen' Elizabeth I Never Married

This paper examines why Elizabeth I never wed Spain's Philip II, Robert Dudley, or Thomas Seymour in this historical overview cons...

Thomas Youk's Assisted Suicide Aired on Television

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

Agnosticism and Thomas Huxley

had not evolved gradually as Darwin asserted, but had been created by God at a specific time in pre-history and the species which ...

Expression, Morality, and the 'Ethics' of Pornography

dilemma. Smut? Or Artistic Expression? Pornography, which can encompass everything from finely developed...

Motown and Berry Gordy

Vegara, and "Urban Crisis" by Thomas Sugrue. Berry Gordy and Motown Berry Gordy is considered to be the father of Motown. "In ...

Ethical Theories of David Hume

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...

Ideologies of Machiavelli, Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle on Democratic Rule

of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...

Obligation and Impulse in Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

books in particular undergo a metamorphosis in regard to the way that they deal with the eternal conflict between impulse and obli...

Overview of Engineering Ethics

been utilized in the protection of public interest, especially when issues of safety can be impacted by widespread public response...

Joseph Ellis's Founding Brothers

he was likely proud of his accomplishments in law, but by and large, his primary contribution include two elements: the presidency...

Transatlantic Relations and the Impact of the Euro

With the new currency, there is fear that the EU will focus on trade over security issues. In the past, Europe has had a lot of pr...

Social Responsibility and Business

seems. It does not deny the existence of social responsibility, but places a very specialised perception on it stating that busine...

Equality Concept, Conflicting Ideology, and Thomas Jefferson

of true equality. Interestingly, both slavery and our early relations with Native Americans had an integral connection to t...

Consumerism Perspectives of Thomas Frank and Susan Strasser

the development and marketing of a product--Procter and Gambles Crisco, a solid vegetable shortening that went on the market in 19...

4 Questions on Philosophy, Hobbes and Peirce

power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...

Informally Examining Romantic Poets and Poetry

unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...

Nursing and Ethical Dilemmas

arise during this absence. Not only is this practice unacceptable professionally, but it is also problematic legalistically, as th...

Bayesian Logic and CoffeeTime's 'Borrow Information'

houses in closer proximity to the university or financial district turn a better profit than those in more outlying locations (whi...