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freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...

Introduction The issues surrounding abortion are complex to say the least. People are polarized on the issue...

significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

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

for Life," commenting that ...we must seriously despise instruction without vitality, knowledge which enervates activity, and his...

non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

based primarily on sex, and one partner ages poorly, the other partner may leave the relationship. In some way, if the relationshi...

IQ and has long been a widely used method, particularly with regard to gifted or educationally-challenged children. The results o...

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

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

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

In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...

In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

seem to be common sense. Because there are so many belief systems in a melting pot society, why not just let people decide their o...

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

lead to irrational ends (Lear, 1995). For Freud who used psychoanalysis to try and account for human irrationality it was determi...

taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...

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

in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...

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...

benevolent and living God who is infinite in a myriad of ways. Because God is deemed to be dead, Nietzsche sees it necessary fo...

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

actions should not merely be personal. We cannot rely on our actions and motives being righteous and fully ethical if we are doing...

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...