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'Pursuit of Happiness' According to Thomas Jefferson

In six pages this paper discusses how the 'pursuit of happiness' was used and interpreted by Thomas Jefferson. Three sources are ...

The Distinction Between Persons and the Principles of Utilitarianism

causes them to prefer intellectual pleasures over sensual ones. He continues in his thinking to assume that the principle of utili...

'Pursuit of Happiness' According to John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau

the law of property and of inequality" (04.htm). While Locke essentially agreed with Rousseau that in a natural state, humanity l...

Plato and the Path to Happiness

In five pages this report examines 2 questions on happiness in a consideration of Plato's works regarding the relationship between...

Electronics, Utilitarianism, and Happiness

In two pages this essay examines the acquisition of happiness through electronic means and also considers what the father of Utili...

Society and Technology in Blade Runner

The issue of the 'right to happiness' is discussed within the context of the Blade Runner film and its presentation of freedoms, s...

The Kiss Sculpture by Rodin

In five pages this sculpture is analyzed from the perspectives of passion, aesthetics, and form. Six sources are cited in the bib...

Gambling Legalization

is an honored profession in England and most other parts of the world..... Not the U.S.A....Ive never understood what I was doing ...

Happiness and Virtue According to Boethius

reversals of fortune, illness, accidents and other events which contribute to their unhappiness. At the same time, the "evil m...

Extroverts vs. Introverts/Who Is Happiest?

to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, an introvert is someone whose personality is "characterized by introversion," that is, a...

What Happy People Know, Dan Baker

the truth that the world isnt perfect, and acting on what feeds happiness. Baker defines happy people as fighters, who unde...

Philosophical Contributions of Ibn Sina

a fictitious narrative (Marenbon 40). His texts successfully incorporated quantitative and qualitative perspectives (Nasr and Raz...

Is Man Inherently Good or Evil?

(Spinks, 2003). Spinks (2003) writes: "Nietzsches immoral philosophy seeks to overcome the reactive morality of good and evil impo...

Philosophy Approaches

what is real and what is perceived, and the one is not dependent on the other. Naturalism states that it is the laws of nature whi...

Will the Dragon Rise Again? Reviewed

In three pages this paper discusses China's post Confucianism cultural and philosophical transitions within the context of this bo...

Analysis of the Happiness Concept of Saint Thomas Aquinas

wrote, "The very fact that the human being is rational necessitates its being characterized by free decision [liberum arbitrium]" ...

Nature of the Soul and the Theories in Phaedo by Plato

must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...

Philosophical Essay Applications

defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...

Pursuing and Improving the Soul According to Socrates

control of the United States and establish a dictatorship. Most women in Gilead are infertile after repeated exposure to pesticide...

Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals and the Categorical Imperative of Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper considers 3 of Kant's formulations regarding a lone categorical imperative as presented in his philosophi...

Wives Who Tire of or Become Bored with Their Mates

In five pages this paper examines why wives grow tired of their husbands and leave them in an application of a philosophical argum...

Forms, Immortal Soul, and Defining Virtue in Phaedo and Meno by Plato

different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...

Taoism and Lao Tzu

mean "The Way and its Power" (Rasmussen, 2002). The philosophy which would result did so in direct response to a number of social...

Comparative Analysis of Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope

of land in the area and with whom Pope considered his family belonged. When Robert, Lord Petre had cut off a lock of Arabella Ferm...

Sexual Fidelity

psychological health and issues of survival are best accomplished within social structures. The concept of sexual fidelity explo...

Women's Search for Independence in 3 Works: Finding Happiness

This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...

Towards Universal Happiness: Issues, Insights/Perspectives, Prospects and Challenges in Business Ethics

and respect diversity within the corporate environment, but not leveraging it in order to gain commercially at the cost of others....

Labyrinth, Happiness, and Perspective Ideological Shifts

voice to the grown up man that the young boy has become. He laments the fact that the labyrinths of life became difficult and stai...

Happiness Perspectives of Langdon Gilkey and Mary Gordon

She realizes that she will have to "invent an existence for myself" (Gordon 5). Isabel falls in love with a married man, and event...

Human Happiness and Capitalism

war between government and the people ends when freedoms are expanded. For example, in a communist government, individuals cannot ...