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Essays 271 - 300
involves a critical evaluation of values and desires, and to act in accordance with them after careful reflection. Valuing a pers...
Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...
In seven pages this paper provides an existential philosophical examination of the story and discusses how it reflects the time pe...
sense of direction that otherwise would merely drift in subconscious thought, which also helps to apply a modicum of understanding...
with the profits generated from their production of greater importance than the care and welfare of the animals (505). During the...
Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...
possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...
of wildlife and marine life are being endangered as well. Business must make a better effort to solve pollution problems not simp...
and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...
one may see it as quasi-scientific determinism. Yet, from a Western point of view, Buddhism is considered to be indeterministic (A...
world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...
political ends, one should do so through peace and peaceful activism, and not through violence. There were many other philosophica...
and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
the "moral" issues which have been registered in regards to two or more human sharing the same genetic code (DNA). This cannot pro...
to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...
the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...
in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...
dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...
which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...
In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...
is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...
with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...
to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...
while in society today, the concept is well accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and ...
the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...
biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...