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Death Penalty Supporting Argument

In seven pages an argument that supports the death penalty as justified punishment in terms of retribution, deterrence, and infall...

Death in Aeschylus's Agamemnon 'Oresteia' and Flannery O'Connor's 'Wise Blood' 2

In two pages this essay examines how the theme of death is depicted in these two literary works....

Death in Jorge Manrique's 'Coplas'

different than the perspectives of the world at the time. Near the beginning of Manriques poem he states, "Let none be self-delud...

Guilt and Grief in The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

how to save her legs and he and Buckley become almost inseparable. However, in the background, Jack makes it clear that he still c...

Controversy: Death Penalty

in "cases involving a person who is convicted of multiple first-degree intentional homicides, if the homicides are vicious and the...

Against the Death Penalty

a moral or an ethic is right for it is a very personal reality. As such one can only persuade another to their side with the under...

Tragic Hero Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

First, is that the play should be of serious magnitude, and have an impact on many, many people (McClelland, 2001). The second fac...

Deterrence and the Death Penalty

the death penalty is rarely used and perhaps not used on a consistent basis involving particular crimes. Regardless, however, ther...

DEATH, DYING AND AMERICAN CULTURE: 1900-2010

all that terrific. What is wrong with this picture? Why would an elderly man put himself through such discomfort, simply to...

Capital Punishment: How Americans See It

DNA testing and the overturn of convictions, two thirds of Americans still support capital punishment ("The Death Penalty - Americ...

Machiavelli's Beliefs on Truth as a Princely Duty

a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...

Education in the Enlightenment vs. Classical Greek

patently incorrect assumption or definition. Socrates exercises in dialogue and thinking are not entirely negative and are certa...

Comparison Between John Locke and Plato

He saw the changing world and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, e...

Love in the Works of Plato and Isaac Bashevis Singer

This paper examines how love is conceptualized by Plato in Symposium when contrasted and compared with the views of Isaac Singer i...

Belief and Knowledge According to Plato

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

Symposium by Plato and the Concept of Love

that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...

Socrates, Human Nature, the 'Good Life,' and Plato's Gorgias

interlocutor" which is consistent with the importance he places on self-knowledge as a way to attain good and happiness. Callicles...

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...

Looking at Empiricism and Rationalism

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

Socrates and Machiavelli on Leadership

character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...

Christianity and Whether or not Belief in God Has Become Less Important Than Belief in Jesus Christ

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

Knowledge and Whether or Not Anything Can be Truly Known

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' and Plato's Crito

are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...

'Good Life' According to Socrates

interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or one-dimensiona...

Various Cultures and Views on Spirituality and Death

that deny death and try to defy it. In the United States for example a great deal of money is spent on prolonging life. Every minu...

Human Nature According to Saint Augustine and Plato

the individual and a definition of justice. There are three classes for the state to function properly: artisans, who are skilled ...

Socrates' Life and Philosophies

In fourteen pages this paper examines Socrates in an overview of his life and philosophical views regarding law, religion, reason ...

Polis Rule According to Aristotle and Plato

In ten pages this paper considers how Plato and Aristotle viewed the polis rulership concept. Eight sources are cited in the bibl...

Philosophers as Viewed by Friedrich Nietzsche

In four pages this paper examines how Plato and Socrates were philosophically viewed by Nietzsche. Two sources are cited in the b...

Social Functioning and the Role of Justice

In five pages the social role of justice is evaluated by employing the philosophical views of Plato and Immanuel Kant. Four sourc...