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Philosophy and False Relativism

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...

Nursing and Ethical Values

who consistently place the needs of others above their own. The individuals who do this seemingly so naturally often can be diffi...

Political Theory of Jewish Philosopher Moses Maimonides

the context of a modern society. Certainly, today Maimonides instruction to beat wives who neglect their wifely "duties" would not...

Reasons or Causes and Individual Actions

In fourteen pages the causality of people's actions and whether or not they are rooted in reasons are examined through social scie...

Philosophy and the Concept of 'Good'

What constitutes good is considered from a philosophical perspective in five pages with the focus being on the philosophies of Pla...

German Middle Ages and Philosopher Leo Strauss

hearts of those he represented. It was Strauss ongoing quest to delve into the deepest recesses of German intellectuals and polit...

The Integrity and Corruption of Nations: An Ethical Comparison

contrast, lacks a culture that is belligerently opposed to institutional transparency, but instead engages in a more traditionally...

Slashing Home Health Care and Ethics

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

Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Ethics

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

A Review of Two Faces of Intention by Michael Bratman

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

Student Question on a Person's Obligation to Obey Community Law

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

African Philosophy Bantu

In five pages universalistic and particularistic perspectives are employed in a discussion of African philosophical aspects as rel...

Humanity, Values, and Valuing

Indeed, the issues behind ethics and morality are critical to defining what meaning truly represents. One who has addressed these...

Community and Inequality According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke

a moral fashion, it ceases to function in the proper manner and ceases to exert genuine authority over the individual. According ...

"Ferris Bueller" and Four Ethical Traditions

when Jesus says that "He has not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it."4 Theologians argue over the correct interpretation ...

Seltzer's Serial Killers

that society, or the perpetrators parents, should not be blamed for any horrific acts. The offender is the only one that someone s...

Philosophers on International Relations

donor for their present child in need of a transplant (1990). To Kant, that was wrong and while other segments of society would be...

Different Views of the Same Story

In five pages this paper applies the different philosophical perspectives of Machiavelli, Rousseau, and Kant in the retelling of t...

Religious Perspectives of Thomas Aquinas and David Hume

In five pages this paper contrasts the philosophical perspectives of David Hume and Thomas Aquinas regarding religion and ultimate...

Philosophical Comparison of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophical perspectives of Mill and Kant in terms of the similarities and di...

A Human Mind Inquiry

Thomas Reid's philosophical perspectives are examined in this paper consisting of nine pages in terms of perceptual senses, visual...

American Poverty and Philosophy

The poor in America are considered in a paper consisting of five pages in which various ethical philosophical perspectives includi...

Issues Pertaining to Economic Philosophy

This research paper examines eight questions that pertain to issues concerning economic philosophy. The topics addressed include t...

Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and its Rivals by Ernest Gellner Reviewed

governmental structures on both sides of the Iron Curtain, believed that the downfall of communism was inevitable. Consider, for ...

Homosexuality According to John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant

This paper discusses the societal impacts of homosexuality according to the philosophical perspectives of John Stuart Mill and Imm...

Politics, Private Property, and the Philosophy of John Locke

and the natural rights that inherently accompany such ownership. Within the realm of life exists inherent elements to ones existe...

Ethics and the Practice of Organ Trafficking

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

Value Theory of Immanuel Kant

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...

Justice, Politics, and Knowledge According to Hobbes and Plato

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

The Argument from Queerness by John L. Mackie

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