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Essays 361 - 390
negative aspect to this competition, or that they would sabotage one anothers efforts out of jealousy....
In nine pages these philosophers are considered regarding their perspectives on human nature and how this helped to shape their re...
In seven pages juvenile crime is considered in terms of family quality of life, delinquiency, responses to juvenile crime, and pro...
In 6 pages this paper examines how these philosophers regarded national law and the social contracts of man in a comparison and co...
for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...
punishment as a type of punishment which is painful and inflicted intentionally, usually by hitting or striking a child as a physi...
would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images" (Plato, 1969. p. 409). He then likens the philosopher to a prisoner who ...
"...no man will benefit from his profession unless he is paid as well" (Plato, 2003, p.28). One can easily see that Plato does not...
theories: " ...such theorists viewed criminals not as evil persons who engaged in wrong acts but as individuals who had a criminal...
of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgement and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest me...
What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...
living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...
morality that originated in its modern form with Jeremy Bentham -- utilitarianism. Mill believed that an action should be judged b...
In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...
acquainted with the roots of their philosophical knowledge when, one might surmise, it came to postulating the myriad circumstance...
good gifts to their friends and family but often do not have the expenses which would allow them to do so. However, people may use...
all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...
worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...
is the act of lying. Suppose one is held hostage in a similar situation as the one described, but the victim does not have to do a...
are told, when will others in the same position known if they are being told the truth, or will they assume the worse, harming hum...
other words, relativity really does not have a place in this line of thinking. Kant did to some extent however distinguish betwee...
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...
Therefore, Kant reasons, perception of this permanent is possible only through a thing outside me" (Kant 245, B275). What makes K...
theoretically more justifiable in such an instance, how do we deal with other situations of killing? How do we justify killing wh...
how one determines the parameters of moral law is what he refers to as the "categorical imperative." It offers a valuable framewo...
"a priori" as they are "evident through thinking alone and not based on sense experience" (Gensler, 2002). "A priori" ethics are n...
but when exampled it becomes clear. For instance, one ought to respect human life. If one respects the life of another, then they ...
exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...
distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...
Clouds by Aristophanes. Reasonably, Socrates points out that the character in the play speaks nonsense and should not be confused...