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Philosophers on Religious Ethics

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...

Adoption Issues Including Searches and Reunions for Adopted Children and Adoption Parents

adoptions directly with foreign governments or have agencies working on their behalf. Independent adoptions bypass adoption agenci...

English Words Borrowed from Italian

years. Some of these include gondola, cameo, arsenal, regatta, fresco, studio, vendetta, broccoli, motto, piano, opera, grotto, vi...

Linkage Between Chapter Ten of Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

seventeenth century in his impressive text of nearly 800 pages entitled, Religion and the Decline of Magic. Thomas demonstrated h...

Views by Plato and Socrates That No One Knowingly Commits Wrong

the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...

Aristotle and Plato on Human Nature and Love

Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...

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...

Characterization in the General Prologue of Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

the "decorum of natural, as well as social, order," is preserved (Williams 31). The description of the Knight in the General Prolo...

Article Review of Andy Serwer's 'Dirty Rotten Numbers'

haves and the have-nots. Brokers are selling off any stock shares where there is even the slightest question about accounting meth...

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...

Woody Allen's 1977 Film Annie Hall and Its Ill Fated Love Affair

comedy has been a staple of American movies since movies were first created. There is an undeniable connection that exists betwee...

Modernist Literature and Virginia Woolf

narrative practice. Woolfs essay "Modern Fiction" remains one of the main stays when describing writing using the modernist approa...

2 Interpretations of Gender in Islam

come from western society and not conform to the lifestyle of the Muslims there. Not wearing veils was seen as immoral (1969). If ...

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche and Symposium by Plato

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

Plato and Aristophanes on Moderation

essential to the happiness of a man - having something worth living for is as important as having something worth dying for (Bloom...

Beckett: Waiting for Godot

fits well with the argument of another who states that Becketts play belongs to the Theater of the Absurd: "This implies that it i...

Anton Shammas and Being a Palestinian in America

of that pool of your created, acquired and invented memories" (Shammas 24). A.s Palestinian father belonged with the roughly 800,...

Types of Operating Systems on the Internet

contributing to its enhancement of abilities. It is beginning to become mainstream in that several large PC manufacturers - most ...

Sociological Issues in "Will & Grace"

the culture, which means that sociologically we are still not ready to look at gay men and lesbians as people first; instead, ``we...

Article Analysis/Teacher Quality

screening, are not strongly correlated with student achievement increases. The last point made by Goldhaber and Anthony (2004) ...

Human Nature According to Saint Augustine and Plato

the individual and a definition of justice. There are three classes for the state to function properly: artisans, who are skilled ...

Canadian Policy and Racism

the effect was similar in that the vast majority of immigrants arriving in Canada prior to the 1960s were from the British Isle o...

Thomas Aquinas and Plato on Justice

virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...

Traditional Japanese Footwear Geta and Zori

some traditions are simply not embraced. The zori is also known as the flip flop (Kim, 2003). Obviously, the Zori is rather sophis...

Socrates and Plato on Wisdom

because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...

China and Islamic Art

areas of the Middle East as well as regions of Africa, Europe, and Asia (Islamic Art). Another author notes that, "The interchange...

'Good Life' According to Socrates

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

Social Control and the 'Noble Lie' of Plato

stratification of society. The rulers tell the populace that the divisions between one social group and another are because of div...

Justifying the Iraq War Philosophically

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

Beauty Concepts of Aristotle and Plato

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...