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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...

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

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

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

the consequences of human action" (Kemerling, 2001). What Kant is saying is that even if we make a choice to take some sort of act...

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

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

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

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

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

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

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

dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depe...

2004b). They can be used for self-directed study, small group study, projects, experiments or in many other ways (NCREL, 2004b). ...

The time of Piaget was a time when new awareness was also coming to the specific condition of children, as they were seen as separ...

that knowledge is something that grows throughout childhood and it is not linear (Silverthorn, 1999). His theories focused on how ...

further examined by comparing the moral reasoning with the stages laid down by Piaget, with more complex and mature reasoning only...

have been that Epaphroditus had been Pauls companion and assistant during one of his visits to that city (Heeren). However, while ...

that rules, in and of themselves, are not sacred or absolute (Crain, 2009). For example, if a child hears a scenario in which one ...

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

a familiar kind of Socratic dialogue about justice, just as the Euthyphro is about piety and the Meno is about virtue. The Republi...

The identity concept is explored in this analysis of The Maids, a play by Jean Genet in a paper consisting of seven pages....

a moral fashion, it ceases to function in the proper manner and ceases to exert genuine authority over the individual. According ...

In five pages this report examines the permissibility of social inequality according to philosophers Jean Jacques Rousseau and Joh...

In two pages Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau is analyzed. There are no other sources cited....

In six pages political freedom in Guatemala is analyzed with the assistance of the philosophy of Jean Jacques Rousseau and the wri...

de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...

In four pages this paper analyzes the 2 prefaces' argument and their necessity. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...

In this essay consisting of 5 pages, the long letter written by St. Paul for instructional purposes is considered as reflection of...