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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...

Legal Profession and Ethics

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

Philosophy and Barker's The Ghost Road and Du Maurier's Rebecca

In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...

Developing a Personal Education Philosophy

the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...

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...

Love Theories

to break up that civilization into smaller units. The point being, love is doomed because society requires multiple, sanitized re...

Dying and Death Readings

he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...

'Good Life' According to Socrates

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

An Ethical Model for Teaching

AIDS education is something tied to a disease that has only surfaced at the end of the twentieth century and may have no relevance...

Ethics, Justice, Love, Virtue and the Death Penalty

(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...

"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 ...

Choosing a Philosopher

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

Ethical Views of the Movie Saving Private Ryan

the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...

Republic by Plato and its Concepts

importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...

Politics and Ethics

who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...

Aristotle and Plato on the Soul

human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...

Knowledge According to Rene Descartes and John Locke

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

Thucydides v. Plato in Defining the Good Life

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

Affliction and Waiting for God by Simone Weil

In six pages this paper examines affliction and its philosophical implications within the context of Simone Weil's Waiting for God...

A Sovereign Philosophical View

In twenty pages the relationship that exists between natural law ans sovereignty is examined through such philosophical perspectiv...

Philosophy of Marxism

In five pages this paper examines historical materialism, alienation, and other philosophical concepts as they are featured in The...

The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

In five pages knowledge in terms of concept, foundation, and actual application as perceived by Russell is examined within the con...

Clifford, Karl Popper, Insufficient Evidence, and the O.J. Simpson Case

In five pages this paper examines Clifford's claim that insufficient evidence leads to lack of believability in a discussion that ...

Chapters Two and Four of Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

regarded as being little more than attempting to keep a pig satisfied. Because man has the intellectual capacity for reason, he s...

Mary Follett and Deming's Philosophies of Management

In ten pages this paper examines these two management theorists in a comparative analysis of philosophical differences and similar...

Society's Impoverished

In five pages this paper examines how society views its impoverished classes from religious, philosophical, political, and economi...

Carol Hanisch's 'The Personal is Political'

In seven pages this paper examines this slogan in a consideration of its organizational as well as philosophical ramifications. F...

Political Theory of Jewish Philosopher Moses Maimonides

the context of a modern society. Certainly, today Maimonides instruction to beat wives who neglect their wifely "duties" would not...

Reasons or Causes and Individual Actions

In fourteen pages the causality of people's actions and whether or not they are rooted in reasons are examined through social scie...

Ramanuja and Sankara Compared

In five pages two Indian Vedanta philosophical doctrines are examined in a comparative analysis. Six sources are cited in the bib...