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

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

the difference between being able to browse in a bookstore, with no restraint, and being told what one can read or say or think. ...

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

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...

looked at in the context of history and of the study of philosophy. II. Metaphysics Metaphysics is an abstract part of philos...

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

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

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

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

in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...

in which genetic information will be used by insurance companies and employers in order to discriminate. It is discrimination that...

penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself" ...

being antithetical to their interests, but rather looked upon government as an instrument for promoting and protecting the interes...

shoppers. What is proposed is a nuisance law, with a nuisance being defined as something that contributes nothing to the social go...

action should be judged in terms of whether or not that act brings the "greatest good" to the "greatest number" (Frost, 1962, p. 9...

what the concept of rights truly meant to the populace as a whole, with his general consensus reflecting the respect for and appre...

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

altar, they represent Jesus human and divine natures. Believers are also called to be the light of the world. In the Smoking Flame...

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

behind such behavior it simply cannot be condoned, inasmuch as society cannot be defined as a scientific expression when it routin...

He did not believe in intervention unless necessary and in that way, there is a similarity. Mills defense of social liberty, and...

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...

In six pages this paper examines the just society quest as philosophically considered by John Stuart Mill in 'On Liberty,' Jean Ja...

that lying is not only necessary in some circumstances, but one may go beyond the few exceptions and see good in the lie. It is ce...

In six pages this paper contrasts the utilitarian concept of John Stuart Mill with the true happiness theory of Aristotle. Five s...

In six pages this paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various philosophical theories with the utilitarianism of John S...

The correlation between social and economic power and the perception of gender is something which has been addressed by various hi...