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Questions on Aristotle and Hobbes

Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...

Philosophical View of 'Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka

In seven pages this paper provides an existential philosophical examination of the story and discusses how it reflects the time pe...

Sense Certainty According to Georg Hegel

sense of direction that otherwise would merely drift in subconscious thought, which also helps to apply a modicum of understanding...

Overview of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge

42,800 as classified as other races (Pearlstien). Approximately 100,700 people (Pearlstien), of several races, were from Hispanic ...

1934 and 1935 Long March of China

In five pages the march by the Chinese Communists over five thousand miles is examined in terms of philosophical considerations, c...

Comparison of Socrates, Alexander the Great, and Confucius

assignment to the highest post in the state which could be obtained by a commoner such as himself (Owen, 1997). In...

Legalism, Taoism, and Confucianism

In five pages Arthur Waley's text is applied to a discussion of Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism within the context of categoriz...

Zen Buddhism Philosophy, Suzuki Roshi, and Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper examines the philosophical similarities and differences between Suzuki Roshi's and Immanuel Kant's theorie...

Capital Punishment and the Philosophy of Thurgood Marshall

This 3 page paper gives a detailed analysis of Justice Thurgood Marshall's philosophical rejection of capital punishment,w hich he...

Shaping Business Ethics Philosophically

In this paper consisting of seven pages balance in terms of community interest and self interest are explored as are potential con...

Public Policy and Health Care

In twenty pages U.S. health care is examined within philosophical, legal, and historical contexts to evaluate the effects of vario...

John Locke's Theories and the Declaration of Independence

Reasonableness of Christianity, An Essay Concerning Toleration, and the Consequences of Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value...

Evil and Philosophy II

In six pages this paper discusses evil in the world in a consideration of philosophical perspectives offered in the Bible, Night b...

Arguments Favoring the Demise of Hate Speech

In ten pages this research paper advocates an abridgement to the 1st Amendment that would prohibit hate speech in the U.S. with a ...

Law and Morality

In six pages this paper examines the philosophical attempts to reconcile morality and law in a consideration of such theorists as ...

Philosophical Views on Human Sexuality

In six pages the philosophical perspectives of Epicurus and Socrates among others are applied to a human sexuality interpretation....

Necessity of Evil in Philosophy

In seventeen pages this paper examines the philosophical concept of evil and then considers 'necessary evil' within the contexts o...

Education and Philosophy

In eight pages this paper discusses reconstructionism, progressivism, essentialism, and perennialism philosophical approaches to p...

Ethical Objectivism and Ethical Relativism Concepts

In five pages this paper examines ethical objectivism and ethical relativism from a philosophical perspective. Two sources are ci...

Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche

concept of beauty, and or, justice. To be able to re-cognize these, one must have the memory of the idea which in an intellectual...

Kantian Ethics Applied to the Abortion Issue

the nineteenth century, abortion was seen as the only recourse for women who had become pregnant due to being lured into the bed o...

John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant's Philosophies

In five pages this paper contrasts the philosophical perspectives of Immanuel Kant with John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism. There ...

Kantian Philosophical Perspective on Social Welfare

At the same time, Kant would argue that even if the final result of a mans moral choice is not positive, this does not negate his ...

Books I, II, and III of Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

In a paper consisting of five pages the concepts of human good, the 'doctrine of the mean,' and 'phronesis' as presented in Books ...

Chapters Two and Four of Utilitarianism by J.S. Mill

regarded as being little more than attempting to keep a pig satisfied. Because man has the intellectual capacity for reason, he s...

The ‘Philosophy’ of Massage Therapy

long and interesting historical evolution, and its origins are largely responsible for the reluctance of allopathic medical profes...

Allegory, Philosophy, and Faith in Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

In four pages Lewis's text is examined in terms of its religious purpose with the argument presented that the Garden of Eden serve...

Ain't I A Woman by Bell Hooks

same culture and social constraints that she includes as elements of her perspective on feminism. She was raised in a working cla...

Romantic and Enlightenment Eras

In ten pages this paper considers these literary and philosophical movements in a discussion of such works as She Stoops to Conque...

Wrong Conclusion in Paradise Lost by John Milton?

In six pages this paper discusses how another conclusion would have fared in a philosophical analysis of Paradise Lost by John Mil...