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Self Identity Problems

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

Internet and Immorality

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

Animal Rights

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

Perfectly Virtuous Medieval City

to be happy, but to be happy he has to know what happiness is and how to achieve it (Alfarabi, p. 35). Here we come to the idea of...

Animal Rights Debate

She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...

Socrates and Immanuel Kant on Lying

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

Philosophical Analysis on the Illegality of Extortion

exactly? Wikipedia defines it as follows: " Extortion is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person obtains money, behaviour, ...

Justice, Murderers, Susan Glaspell's Trifles and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

Honesty and Ethics in Philosophy

commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...

Legal Profession and Ethics

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

"Ferris Bueller" and Four Ethical Traditions

when Jesus says that "He has not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it."4 Theologians argue over the correct interpretation ...

Seltzer's Serial Killers

that society, or the perpetrators parents, should not be blamed for any horrific acts. The offender is the only one that someone s...

Ethics in a System of Inquiry

can help to guide the decision making and create a firm foundations that will help to ensure that the outcomes are the best possib...

The Pre-Existent Divine Word Or Son Took On Human Nature

Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...

Strategic Human Resource Development

This 30 page paper looks at what is meant by Strategic Human Resource Development (SHRD), how it differences from human resource d...

The Evolution of Language

a variety of human factors have all served as a focus for study and research in a number of areas. Because language is one of th...

Philosophy Questions and Religion

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

Questions on Personal Philosophies Answered

Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...

Defending God's Existence Philosophically

In a paper consisting of eight pages the existence of God is predicated on philosophical as opposed to religious supporting argume...

Philosophy Topics

the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...

A Personal System of Philosophy

Even in the absence of hard and fast codes of ethics such as those that exist for some professions, there are certain basic guidel...

Kant/Speculative Beginning of Human History

A 3 page reaction paper to Immanuel Kant’s 1786 text “Speculative Beginning of Human History,” which draws on the Judeo/Christian ...

What Is the Objective of the Philosophical Investigation?

book by Scott Soames; he asks what 20th century analytic philosophy comes to, and reveals that "Soames thinks its two most importa...

Performance Assessment within the National Health Service (NHS)

performance assessments from a legal perspective, a professional perspective and an ethical perspective. 2. Performance Assessment...

Rousseau v. Wordsworth/Neo-Classical v. Romantic

offers reasonable, logical analysis in order to justify his political views that inequities in European society were not based on ...

Human Cloning from a Christian Perspective

order to consider the benefits, though, it is first necessary to relate existing arguments against human cloning. In particular, ...

Perspectives on Human Nature

the pagan world, sex was considered a divine gift and it carried none of the sense of sin and punishment that became associated wi...

HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

national. But once a company gets to the international level, things change a little bit. In addition to dealing with different ty...

Human Development And Hollywood's Perspective

will, jealousy and feelings of inadequacy that oftentimes stem from the inadequacy they felt during the previous stage. Moreover,...

Political and Economic Perspectives on Human Rights

In eight pages this research essay considers the UN's economic and political considerations regarding international human rights p...