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Moral Defects and Virtues

be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...

Identity in the Novel as a Philosophical Exploration

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

Self Identity According to David Hume

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

Humanity According to David Hume and John Locke

that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...

David Hume and Immanuel Kant on Freedom of the Will

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

Man Philosophically Defined

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

Nature of Causation According to David Hume

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

Philosophers on Moral Theory

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

Artistic Similarities Jean Jacques Rousseau and Jacques Louis David

of color to drawing (2002). The economy of statement had been seen to be in line with keeping with the new severity of taste (20...

Thomas Youk's Assisted Suicide Aired on Television

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

The Greatest King of Israel

This essay responds to several issues concerning King David. What was the Davidic covenant. Since David sinned, why is he consider...

US Independence and the Ideology that Achieved It

This paper reviews the book 1776 by author David McCullough. No additional sources are listed. ...

Coach Carter/Hoosier, film comparison

when the teams losing streak continues. There is one boy in the high school, Jimmy (Maris Valainis) who is a superb player, with...

Works of David Carson

even know such a field as graphic art existed until he was 27 years of age and up until he became involved in art he was a profess...

David Auburn: "Proof"

obviously cannot be separated from the field of mathematics. How do the specific techniques and rigors of higher-order mathematic...

Jacques-Louis David

of this time was The Intervention of the Sabine Women (Olgas Gallery). And, interestingly enough, this was very political for it d...

Daily Life of the Ancient Romans (Book Review)

contrast the modern day with ancient times. If he does have an argument, it might be that people are not so different throughout h...

Four Commencement Speakers from American History

Americas historical experience with race, ethnicity, and/or gender. Who could be more appropriate for this task than one of our c...

Beck, Wright, Sowell, Berger, and Courtwright Idea Connection

attitudes and our approaches to society. With this simple illustration of Courtwrights work in mind we present similar ideas found...

A Review of Gabriel's Story

the April sky was not a thing of air and gas. Rather, it lay like a solid ceiling of slate, pressing the living down into the prai...

David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize Winning Play Turned Movie Glengarry Glen Ross

In five pages this paper discusses the 1992 film adaptation of David Mamet's play in terms of plot and performance....

A Review of Eyewitness to Power

A 5 page review of the book by David Gergen. 1 source....

Art Weinstein's Market Segmentation

In three pages this paper compares Market Segmentation by Art Weinstein with Theodore Levitt's The Marketing Imagination and David...

Theodore Levitt's Marketing Imagination

In three pages Levitt's text is compared with others on the subject such as Art Weinstein's Market Segmentation and David Ogilvy's...

The Abandonment of the Jews by David Wyman

In eight pages this text by David Wyman is analyzed in terms of a discussion of the opinions expressed by the author....

Thomas Nagel's 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

that conscious experience is common at many levels of animal life, and Nagel (1974) uses the assumption that non-human animal form...

Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas Hearings Analyzed

The case involving Clarence Thomas's alleged sexual harassment of Anita Hill in 1991 is the focus of this five page paper and incl...

Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas

could find. He entered his teen years in a state of rebellion, and left school when he was sixteen years old. He found work as a...

Medieval Perspectives on Religion by Keith Thomas and Eamon Duffy Compared

the other hand, is quite different. Duffy sees the magical element as part of an overall religious system that was flexible, vibra...

Compatibilism and David Hume

In seven pages this paper considers Hume's compatibilism philosophy and offers criticisms to examine how his position could be mod...