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Essays 541 - 570
the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation" (Jeremy Bentham, 2006). This simple co...
of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgement and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest me...
the Republic. Take pornography as an example. Plato argued that objectionable ideas can upset the understanding (Johnston). Femini...
of sex and love. Harraway explores technology from a feminist perspective, from the perspective of how man and machine can blend ...
perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...
human senses can be mislead. This is seen when there are individuals close and far away, with the difference in size seen by the e...
In five pages similarities and simplicity are examined in a comparison of the concepts espoused by this trio of political philosop...
here, but Platos position that it is necessary to experience a thing in order to have knowledge of it informs the reading of The R...
collect itself (1966). As the modern world has been conditioned to this sort of thinking, it has now become problematic to imagin...
Mad Love, Breton attempts to accomplish the impossible - to textually recreate the basic emotions of passion and desire, which mov...
discover) the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, propositions about the future seem problematic. If a...
the amount of knowledge that anyone has very little to do with doing things that are wrong. Now, understandably, we can see wher...
may appear as a primary concept, it has been met with great hostility, with critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is...
his or her own singular importance. "The ethical is the universal, and as such it is again the divine. One has therefore a right ...
the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....
as this being the basis of the way than man will then behave as a result of the toughs Hobbes attention turns to human nature. C...
In seven pages Aristotle's theories regarding metaphysics as described in his text are examined in terms of the ways one is chall...
be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others" (Mill PG). Thus,...
In five pages this paper examines concepts featured in 'Myth of the Cave' and The Apology and also considers 'The Death of Ivan Il...
in the Peloponnesian War, which ended in a resounding defeat for Athens in 404 B.C. (Levinson ix-x). While it can be assumed that...
student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...
is it essential for human flourishing? The online edition of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary [http://www.merriam-webster.com] defin...
1) Opportunities need to be open to all, regardless of background, birth or social class; 2) The best decisions for society...
This 3 page paper provides an overview of Rawls' 'A Theory of Justice," as well as a popular rebuttal from philosopher Amartya Sen...
values rapid change and constant novelty, Zaras speed and clever marketing of scarcity were highly effective. Recruitm...
comments made for and against the use of spanking. Definition Corporal Punishment Corporal punishment is "the intentional inflic...
that man must first display characteristics that are shaped by his own masculine perspective. Machiavelli considered the nature o...
influential thinkers of the ancient age. Despite their obvious inter-related lives, they still had significantly differing opinio...