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a prison takeover (Burke, 1995). Though unusual, if something like that were to happen, officials would be at an extreme disadvant...
Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...
challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...
It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...
guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...
when they heard the ringing of the bells, for they would associate this with being fed. In Brave New World, behaviorism takes the...
the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...
taking a life to save two hardly ever arises. How can these outlandish case studies and extreme concepts be applied to administrat...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...
in turn functions to accentuate the bodys passage through time. Myriad philosophers, psychologists and sociologists have at...
exactly? Wikipedia defines it as follows: " Extortion is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person obtains money, behaviour, ...
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives, which help maintain order and a sense of direction that otherwise woul...
the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...
correct them by illustrating how values are an integral component of personhood. Indeed, it can readily be argued how the concept...
problem is that in 1970, it was suggested that Nestle was profiting at the expense of third world mothers. While breast-feeding is...
have been utilized in both historical and contemporary politics: (a) The use of diplomacy and the formation of coalitions; (b) Vio...
Indeed, it seems that within the context of philosophy, there is a wrestling with religious thought, because it is from the rejec...
attacks were largely carried out by those fighting for their freedom from a corrupt system (the Russian Revolution) or for the fre...
can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...
critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...
solution. Rousseau was an individual who attempted to incorporate civil religion as that solution. One author tells us that "Rouss...
teachers beliefs, principles, convictions and interpretation of reality are all pertinent. They influence the students and so it i...
points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...
ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...