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Abortion: An Argumentative Essay

the demands of the world. Side #2: Pro-Life The utilitarian perspective defines the need for autonomy in decision-making, a...

Mankind and the Environment - Exploitation or Stewardship

present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (WECD, 1987). This approach clearly indica...

The Philosphy of God

a perfect idea has to have been placed in the human mind by a perfect being or God, which is equivalent to Descartes Third Meditat...

Sochi Olympics, Conspiracy Theory

This essay concerns an argument that presents a conspiracy theory, which pertains to the twin suicide bombings that occurred one m...

Pro-Choice Argument

This essay offers an argument that supports the pro-choice position in the abortion debate. The stance of the opposing pro-life po...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...

Thoreau, Walden

of the soil" (Thoreau 326). In one of most famous lines in his text, Thoreau writes that "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desp...

US Society and the Death Penalty Argument

Penalty, 2002). Society has changed considerably since the 14th century BCE, and it is evident that the way in which our so...

Stereotyping and Emotions in the Construction of an Argument

street until one of the bolder residents stepped from his home and planted himself directly into their path. "Just what are the l...

'Self' Argument of Nagel

functions to accentuate the bodys passage through time. The inherent relationship that exists between self and the elements...

Epicurean Concepts of 'Ataraxia' and Aristotelian Concepts of 'Human Good,' 'The Best Good,' and 'Function Argument'

positive reinforcement, for the happiest people are also those who are feeling well and living prosperous lives. These are not me...

3 Point Supporting Argument for Gun Control

bloodshed and terror of such despicable crimes comes the most obvious of questions: Why are kids killing each other? In an ideal ...

Ontological Argument on God's Existence by Rene Descartes

is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...

Aristotle's Alternatives to Plato's Arguments

also be allowed to have their own private property. In Aristotles belief, man is inherently born sinful. Because of this ...

An Argument in Favor of Owners Maintaining Staff Employees

Customers expect a certain standard of service. If labour is cut here it may either be form the waiting staff. If there are less w...

Argument in Favor of Stem Cell Research Legalization

Where the governmentally funded research companies are now stalled while the debate rages, privatized groups sponsored by large co...

St. Anselm's Ontological Argument from Philosophical Perspectives

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...

Argument Against Sanctioning Gay Marriage

homosexuality was not a lifestyle in the eighteenth century. Rather, having sex with someone of the same gender was something that...

Anti Abortion's Normative Argument

all abortions in the United States. The abortion rate of Black women is three times that of White women." Anti-abortion activist...

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...

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...

Dead Sea Scrolls Arguments

In five pages this paper discusses the Dead Sea Scrolls that contain documents regarding a radical sect of Judaism that opposed th...

John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Book IX and Eve and Satan's Argument

In 8 pages the ninth book of 'Paradise Lost' examines the thematic importance of this argument between Satan and Eve. Eight sourc...

An Analyogin in the Abortion Argument Prsented in 'People-Seeds'

to to prevent it. She utilizes the analogy of fine-meshed screened windows to suggests birth control measures utilized by those t...

Arguments of John Stuart Mill in On Liberty

that appraisal in terms of wrong, immoral, or wicked is appropriate: only in this area that deterrence and retribution as they ope...

Norman Hampson's Arguments on the French Revolution

In six pages this paper discusses Norman Hampson's arguments on the French Revolution. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....

Notion of Love or Precis in Plato's Arguments Presented in Phaedrus and Symposium

who, even for women, is feminine perforce" (Hoff, 1997, p. 215). Indeed, Platos Symposium exemplifies the need for virtue w...

Moral Arguments on Euthanasia

potential for legal action against them. The idea of taking ones own life is also deemed as suicide (Pope John Paul II PG, Conwel...

Argument as Art

In eight pages this paper discusses the communication art form of argument in a discussion of the theories of Van Eemeren, Gilbert...

Secession For and Against Arguments

This paper consists of five pages and addresses newly elected U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on the issue of secession and recomme...