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to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...

Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...

and Cavaliers differ somewhat from those that are associated with Europe. What we most often remember in America is the differenc...

one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

lie to the police, and fabricate "evidence," in order to protect her daughter from possible harm? Or, should she allow her daughte...

have anticipated the degradation that would take place toward the trees, grass and animals, all of whom are just as integral to th...

II. Facts of the Case The case in question was presented to Lord Justice Ward, Lord Justice Brooke and Lord Justice Robert Wal...

not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...

tendencies within society and the fact that people are far too concerned with their own well being to fend for those who cannot fe...

Many contend that while God is all good, man has free will and brings the suffering on himself. At the same time, animals cannot r...

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

In sixteen pages this paper discusses slavery within the context of Jean Jacques Rousseau's social philosophical treatise, The Soc...

Plato's Euthyphro is employed in this paper consisting of eight pages in order to explore the roots of godly piety and this tutori...

In five pages this paper questions the ethics of brain stem transplants in a consideration of an article on the subject and philos...

In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...

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

In this six page consideration of life after death various philosophical arguments are examined in an attempt to draw a definitive...

bits of philosophy. For example, transcendental meditation is thought by some westerners as being a way one opens the door to the ...

In five pages this paper examines the philosophical debate regarding determinism versus free will with the use of the texts Donald...

In five pages Hume's attack on the self or personal identity is discussed as represented in A Treatise of Human Nature and also co...

In five pages the drug testing issue is examined in terms of various social and philosophical ramifications. Nine sources are cit...

In six pages this paper examines Plato's Gorgias which describes a philosophical dialogue between the title character and Socrates...

In this paper consisting of seven pages a better understanding of such abuses as Amadou Diallo's murder by NYPD officers is provid...

In eight pages this paper examines realism and antirealism concepts, theories, and the impact of scientific, economic, ethical, an...

In three pages this paper discusses David Hume's philosophical belief that causation laid the foundation for rational belief with ...

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