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be the case. This is because they want justice for their loved one. They do not want to see a murderer enjoy even another hour of ...

technique and what happens when there is no threat of punishment or promise of a reward (Brandenburg, 2006). When children are g...

prior to its implementation. The crime must have been extremely egregious to warrant the ultimate penalty. An important point is...

generally perceived as a human rights violation (Grant 1998). During the last decade, however, there has been a growing internatio...

isnt. It means that an aversive situation is taken away, which reinforces the person to perform whatever act is necessary (Boeree,...

This research paper presents an example paper of how a student might relate personal experience to the issues of just school pol...

fact very risky; that risk is one reason why many pension funds no longer invest in trusts, or keep that investment to a minimum (...

study. However, the researchers predicted that children would "evaluate the punishments differently for the moral and conventiona...

In five pages authority regarding criminal behavior punishment is considered within the contexts of philosophers Jean Jacques Rous...

In an essay consisting of five pages the three decades' long debate regarding corporal punishment is examined from both sides with...

core of humanitys lack of individualism and blind willingness to be part of what he referred to as "the herd." In Nietzsches opini...

souls of "the violent against themselves" (1194). To arrive at their destination, Dante and Virgil must travel across a "river of...

The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...

Indeed, it seems that within the context of philosophy, there is a wrestling with religious thought, because it is from the rejec...

In five pages this paper examines The Matrix and Blade Runner films in a discussion of how the philosophical concepts of Berkeley ...

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

later. In each, she focuses on what she regards as the two most significant values that must be preserved if social justice is to...

The paper is presented as an introduction to for a student studying finance. A number of different terms and concepts are defined...

time, in days, it takes a company to convert its resource inputs into cash flows - according to the above, GM has it over Toyota. ...

view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...

the public quite often. Yet, behind some of these more popular concepts are theoretical models that could prove important as well....

one may see it as quasi-scientific determinism. Yet, from a Western point of view, Buddhism is considered to be indeterministic (A...

exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

obviously see elements of the man who wrote the story, for Kafka is often considered to be an individual who deeply examined his w...

steeled and a heart trans- formed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility" (Nietzsche, p.129). One can see tha...

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...