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

manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...

In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

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

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...

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

seem to be common sense. Because there are so many belief systems in a melting pot society, why not just let people decide their o...

In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...

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

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

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

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

significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...

here on Earth. This of course, did not go over well with the Church who was used to organizing everyones life on Earth. Reason, th...

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

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

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

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...

delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...

ideals clearly possessed an understanding that many people had no "maturity" and no real understanding of enlightenment. Kings mis...

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

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

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...