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away in the most inaccessible part of the abbeys labyrinthine library, where it remained for decades" (Essay on The Name of the Ro...

manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...

of veracity. This is because each segment of humanity is its own little universe and what is held to be truth in one section of th...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

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

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

However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...

Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...

to shake off these social controls and become the master rather than the slave. This, he argues, is the true justice of nature: la...

can help to guide the decision making and create a firm foundations that will help to ensure that the outcomes are the best possib...

"the agent ought to promote the self above other values" (Moseley, 2006). This is not as ugly as it sounds: it goes all the way ba...

In 6 pages this paper examines the contrasting worldviews featured in the detective works White Butterfly by Walter Mosley and The...

In seven pages this paper examines the conflict of man's struggles in accepting duties and responsibilities to the polis from the ...

Indeed, the issues behind ethics and morality are critical to defining what meaning truly represents. One who has addressed these...

In five pages with a hypothetical situation of people who have been shipwrecked seeking to set up their own island government thei...

In five pages universalistic and particularistic perspectives are employed in a discussion of African philosophical aspects as rel...

hearts of those he represented. It was Strauss ongoing quest to delve into the deepest recesses of German intellectuals and polit...

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

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

What constitutes good is considered from a philosophical perspective in five pages with the focus being on the philosophies of Pla...

This paper contrasts and compares how choice and evil were conceptualized by Aristotle and Saint Augustine. Eight sources are cit...

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

woman, then she was free to take back her dowry and return to her fathers house (Brians, 1998). While this sounds quite humanistic...

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

In six pages this report contrasts and compares the views of Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, and Plato on economic growth in terms of h...

In five pages this report examines what a 'social contract' means from the philosophical perspectives of Jean Jacques Rousseau and...

In this paper consisting of three pages an animal fable speech that mirrors the literary style of the novel features similar word ...

a moral fashion, it ceases to function in the proper manner and ceases to exert genuine authority over the individual. According ...

In eight pages this report contrasts and compares these philosophers' views regarding important philosophical concepts. Two sourc...