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of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

"hoppers" and "superpredators" (Wagner, 2001). And during one week in California, youth committed heinous crimes including one 15-...

keep it alive" (Christian Answers to Moral Problems, 2002). Furthermore, in their article entitled "Letting Handicapped ...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...

There are many easily-identifiable situations in which an individual may have intention to act but cannot follow through with the ...

support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...

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...

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

must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...

Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...

the time, today people are faced with decisions and can decide to be honest or face dire consequences. Journalists today sometimes...

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)...

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

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

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

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

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...

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

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

Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, not in the realm...

is fair to accommodate golfers who have disabilities because they gain an unfair advantage. However, such beliefs can be detriment...

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...

in his infamous work On Liberty, he relays that idea. Joplins idea is quite a philosophical, intangible view of freedom as it sug...

public opinion than when in opposition to it" (Mill 76). When assessing the notion of progress and how it related to Mills...