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Perceptions and Awareness of Aesthetics

our manner of interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or ...

Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Ethics

the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...

A Review of Two Faces of Intention by Michael Bratman

There are many easily-identifiable situations in which an individual may have intention to act but cannot follow through with the ...

First Person Narrative of a 'Bad' Day

certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...

Rene Descartes and David Hume on Knowledge

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

Symposium of Plato and the Concept of Objectified Love

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

Evolution of Women's Roles in the Islamic Tradition

in 7th century Arabia" (Time, 2001; 50). For example, while many pagan societies of the time buried unwanted female infants alive,...

Is There Ever a Justification for Terrorism?

morning and be blown up on a bus or go to a discotheque and be killed in an explosion. These are not unusual scenarios there. For ...

Philosophical Concept Known as 'the Great Chain of Being'

of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...

Philosophy of Socrates

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...

David Hume's 'Miraculous' Philosophy

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

Philosophical Dilemmas of Mind and Body

horrible situations such as one that would deem them a "vegetable" do have some thinking capacity perhaps. Yet, is a disembodied m...

Mind, Time, and Space According to Critique on Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

Plato and Singer

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

Nursing's Philosophical Issues

course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...

Sun Tzu's The Art of War Analyzed

consider that if an entity, such as a nation, is to grow and become prosperous there will be enemies and as such perhaps war is es...

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 ...

Philosophical Works of J.S. Mill

contradictory, which is why he is so controversial. One can take the meaning of Mills writings to suggest that individuality rules...

Freedom According to Michel Foucault

for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...

Death Penalty Social and Philosophical Justifications

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

Justice, Politics, and Knowledge According to Hobbes and Plato

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

The Ethics of Belief by W.K. Clifford

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

Overview of Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

Complexities of Self Philosophy, Language, and Consciousness

must recognize that the consciousness (cit) is a separate phenomena which is present regardless of the presence or absence of stim...

Hindu Tradition and Human Beings

is the Purusha and thus an infinite being. He only has to liberate himself from the bondage of Maya to realise himself" (Indian Re...

Civil Disobedience and Philosophy

permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...

Evaluating On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...

Justice, Philosophy, and Ethics of Health Care Rationing

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...

Philosophical Views on Individual Good v. Community Good

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

Abolishing the Patent Monopoly

biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...