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through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...
to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
the reader into the oppressive world of slavery. Indeed, it was the authors desire to bring attention to the injustices faced by ...
In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...
theory is brought forth numerous times throughout Aristotles well-read and well-quoted Nichomachean Ethics. Aristotles vie...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
notch to become a tale about the near-extinction of a species - that is, the family called the DUrbervilles - and how they attempt...
Without the pressures of the capitalist system, Marx was of the opinion that work could make a valuable contribution to the labour...
will a universal law" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can ...
In eight pages this paper examines war reporting with the emphasis upon Afghanistan terrorism in a consideration of how the media ...
the society and, subsequently, from the self. Sartres concept of alienation was certainly different from Marxs. Of course, Mar...
corporate, organized around a concept of ultimate reality" (9). The reality conjured by these beliefs, actions and experiences ca...
according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...
told us we had to leave, or go to jail. My mother came out of the house crying, we children knew there was trouble, but we were c...
even know that IV drug use is. Should such persons be subject to taking unnecessary tests, or rather, should the government trust ...
but in those areas where the student was lagging a remediation course was offered in-house for the student. This seems logical, si...
a toxic substance. When corporations repeatedly break the rules regarding environmental protection, it says in a very loud voice ...
In five pages this paper discusses the philosophies of Locke and Berkeley featured in The Matrix film as they pertain to the mater...
determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...
are intellectuals. There is an eclectic group and this sets the stage for many ideas to be broached. There are several external al...
the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...
is not a description of Washington, D.C., in the late 20th century but representative of early 16th century Italy. "The Prince" ...
In contrast to the views of genic selectionists, then, developmental systems theory has been proposed as a way of incororating and...
said that one can easily recognize in an educated mind the ability to entertain a thought without accepting it; Aristotle taught t...
In five pages this paper examines pessimism and whether or not optimism exists in this philosophical consideration of Voltaire, Sc...
01B). As a people, Christians are bound by the convictions that they are to possess honesty, respectfulness, charity, kindness an...
what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...
for others, such as Bentham and Mill. One of the positions for which Hume is famous is that we cannot derive ought from is, in oth...