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to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...

after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...

chap6f.html). We note that with deontology, "If, in the nature of action, a contradiction is found, then that is the rational ...

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

reason (Kants Ethics, 2003). In his famous, Critique of Pure Reason, Kant "sought to answer the skepticism of empiricists like Hu...

The central issue has nothing to do with the sex of the individuals. The case is not affected by the fact that they are two...

enjoyment of what is good, not in the pride that he alone is enjoying it, to the exclusion of others. He who thinks himself more ...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...

words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...

the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...

Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...

and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...

of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...

do not assert any observation sentences (Yancy, 1995). And in fact, science and philosophy truly have a lot in common. Both scient...

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 ...

see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

work on the dual nature of man, which puts him firmly in the camp of philosophers. But he also had a tremendous influence on psych...

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...