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of his better known works "The Social Contract", he discusses issues involved in radical or republican thought regarding the human...

Woody Guthries and Henry Fondas careers, and many current land- and water-use policies in the western United States. Ideas, even b...

yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

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...

much like ourselves. As this suggests, Socrates means to make it clear that this allegory has relevance to the realities of everyd...

In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...

of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...

divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...

With the new currency, there is fear that the EU will focus on trade over security issues. In the past, Europe has had a lot of pr...

the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...

what no republic may dare" (1784). Interestingly, about five years after the writing of this piece the French would take the heads...

power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...

sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...

people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...

is the part of a wise man to believe them no further than right reason makes that which they say appear credible." In other words...

he is good and honest, the covenant will be kept. If not, then it is more likely than not that it will be broken. Hobbes (1651) ...

Man has a natural propensity for conflict and human beings form societies not out of their desire for complicit, but out of a fear...

seem to be common sense. Because there are so many belief systems in a melting pot society, why not just let people decide their o...

In looking at the greatest good we may argue that there are many people that have benefited from the use of the internet,...

In six pages this paper examines good will and reason from the conceptual philosophical perspective of Immanuel Kant with argument...

humans should be moral we often think of the works of those major philosophers who adamantly supported morality. We look to great...

In ten pages this paper discusses goodness through the concepts of John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant and discusses how in assista...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...

that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...

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...

delve further into the subject matter and ask how reason transcends experience. Clearly, while elevating experience above reason, ...

as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...

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