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Animal Consciousness, Physicalism, and Personal Identity According to Nagel and Locke

the only species that truly does not understand the depth and intensity that animals possess in their special consciousness. When...

Developing a Position Argument for an Academic Audience A position argument for an academic audience

should also be noted that persuasion is not synonymous with dogmatism: the speaker must acknowledge that opposing viewpoints exist...

An Ethical Argument on the Abortion Issue

that school. He points out that the insight that Aristotle provides in "On the Soul" and "On the Generation of Animals" serves as...

Poverty Articles by Paul Collier and David Dollar and David Slater and Morag Bell Reviewed

if we look at where the aid is going is currently giving the greatest poverty relief to the South East Asian area and the least to...

Poverty Causes

higher median income than native-born citizens" (Young, 2005). Young does admit that most people, if born into the culture of pov...

Free Will Debate

the point that it was not uncommon for others to counter such philosophies, inasmuch as those who conversed with him held staunchl...

Synthesis, Analysis of 3 Public Policy Articles

which specifically examined why theories pertaining to foreign policy change had received little scholar attention. Holsti focused...

The Positive Aspects of Monopolies

they do not need to (Gisser, 1999). This meant some monopolies would end up lagging behind technologically other similar industrie...

Saying Goodbye to Debate Class

chore. It is these assignments that have held the greatest lessons, however. These assignments that superficially seem so ...

The Death Penalty

and Pojman quotes Kant at length in stating: "There is no similarity between life, however wretched it may be, and death, hence ...

Epistemology Naturalized by W.V. Quine Critically Analyzed

Therefore, according to Quine, "Epistemology, or something like it, simply falls into place as a chapter of psychology and hence o...

Value Theory of Immanuel Kant

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...

Ethics and the Practice of Organ Trafficking

well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...

Tort Reform Arguments Both For and Against

both pain and suffering and punitive damages. Hofmann (2003) believes that the Presidents: "... call for the reform of medical mal...

Twenty First Century Gun Control

gun control is that the existence, or presence, of guns in a private citizens home leads to more violence. Statistics have often i...

Locke and Rousseau and the Impossibility of Teaching Intelligence

basis of this essay (1995). He maintains the blank state hypothesis, believing that people are born with minds akin to a blank, wh...

Rogerian Argument in Support of Gay Marriages

of marriage and those who are against same-sex marriages argue that this issue will only serve to erode the institution even furth...

Peter Singer's Practical Ethics Analyzed

for this thesis by first indicating that if we have concern for other humans that is non-dependent on their abilities, race or int...

A Business Ethics Case Study

going through a predecessors files, he discovers a secret internal report about the companys new drug Colstop. This drug, introduc...

Critical Thinking Questions and Argument Techniques

To date there has been no argument that sinks in with her, and we are nearly to the point of giving up. My own inability to criti...

Badwar's Inverse Proportionality Criticism in 'The Circumstance of Justice'

first of all, wherever friendship or community flourishes, justice doesnt - and when this fades, justice becomes more important. S...

Constructivist Views on Conventional Programs of Rehabilitation

is the cause of all of his other problems. While labeling alcoholism as a disease for example has changed the perspective a bit, i...

Reason, Good Will, and the Concepts of Immanuel Kant

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

Prostitution - A Utilitarian Perspective

that its legalization would produce the benefits of a safer society, increased tax revenue, and the empowerment of the individuals...

Feminist Analysis and Antigone

violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...

Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman

her text Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft takes direct exception with the story of creation in the Book of ...

Democratic Governance and Maintaining Morality

This research paper/essay presents an argument that maintains that it is necessary to go beyond a perspective that focuses solely ...

Onosko's View on RTT, A Letter to the Editor

This paper consists of a hypothetical letter to the editor that relates to Joe Onosko's 2011 article, which offers arguments that ...

Homer's Iliad, A Political Perspective

This paper discusses the argument between Achilles and Agamemnon from a political perspective. Three pages in length, two sources ...

Legal Issues and E-Commerce

law is relatively simple. However, copyright law is complex, especially when applied to the Internet. II. Copyright Laws and Pro...