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

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...

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...

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

the "moral" issues which have been registered in regards to two or more human sharing the same genetic code (DNA). This cannot pro...

to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...

our lives, in a psychological effort to cause us to purchase the product. In effect, the message is if you buy this product your ...

It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...

Republic, 2002). Therefore, according to this theory, knowledge of anything and understanding of anything comes from examination ...

Indeed, one might readily surmise that Plato believed man was a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our igno...

is characterized in a particular way; Sartre argues that "conflict is the original meaning of being-for- others." (Baron, 2002, PG...

that conscious experience is common at many levels of animal life, and Nagel (1974) uses the assumption that non-human animal form...

trade. Barbaric pursuits held no interest, and the Chinese certainly knew their medicine and culture were vastly superior. ...

to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...

guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...

the ability to learn nursings technical complexities and already have full command of ethical values to the point that the can act...

social order and how it was best managed. The founder of this school of though; Confucius, also known as Kong Zi or Master Kong, l...

2002). It is the dominant religion in India and Nepal Dating back to prehistoric times, it is no surprise that Hinduism has had a...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...

by severe degeneration of the Central Nervous System, a degeneration which most often manifests prior to the age of three but whic...

our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

management and water companies can now use GATS to challenge local (as well as national and provincial) water and land use regulat...

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...