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What is Real, Nonfoundationalism, Dualism, and Materialism

In five pages this report examines these concepts from the perspectives of Democritus, Rene Descartes, and Aristotle. Six sources...

Philosophers and Their Weak and Strong Theories

In six pages this paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various philosophical theories with the utilitarianism of John S...

Business and Ethics

In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Rand, Mills, Kant, Aristotle, and Socrates in a consideration whether or not...

A Review of Human Knowledge Classical And Contemporary Approaches

rA 5 page review of the book by Paul K Moser. Traditional philosophic constructs of knowledge is contrasted with contemporary con...

Medical Ethics Cases

In a paper consisting of twenty five pages medical care and options are examined in terms of decision complexities that surround t...

Hume, Kant, and Aristotle

In five pages this essay discusses David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle by contrasting and comparing their philosophies regard...

Perspectives of Aquinas, Aristotle, and Plato on Economic Growth and Human Welfare

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

The Good Life From an Aristotelian Perspective

In six pages a representation of what Aristotle regarded as the 'good life' is expressed in a speech. Twelve sources are cited in...

Friendship as Viewed by Aristotle and Epicurus

This paper examines the philosophies of friendship as portrayed by Epicurus and Aristotle. The author compares and contrasts the ...

Thomas Hobbes and Aristotle on Human Nature

the civilization that had sprung up, flourished for centuries, and now stood on the brink of massive change in his native land of ...

Why Hamlet Would Have Been Loved by Aristotle

In six pages Hamlet, his mother Gertrude and stepfather Claudius are analyzed within the criteria Aristotle established regarding ...

Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle on Virtue

subdivided into passions and reason (Yu 323). So, too, was his moral character, which explained how man could exist as both a soc...

Justifying Moral Claims

In seven pages whether or not moral claims can be justified is examined philosophically with an integration of views from Foucault...

Politics, Labor, and American Citizens

In nine pages this paper examines the philosophies of Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Gompers, Frederick Douglass, Plato, and Aristotl...

Tragic Figure of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In 5 pages the concept of tragic hero as defined by Aristotle is examined within th context of the novel by Gustave Flaubert and c...

The Tragic Hero of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Sclarlet Letter is analyzed for the presence of a tragic hero. Using Aristotle standards the author of ...

The Existence Of God and Descartes' Argument

simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...

Philosophers on Religious Ethics

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...

Philosophy and the Relationship Between the Body and the Mind

of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...

Aristotle and Plato on Human Nature and Love

Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...

Aristotle and Plato

theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...

Analysis of Tom Tykwer's 1999 Film Run Lola Run

as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...

Preemptive War and Moral Considerations

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

Aristotle and Sebastian de Grazia on Leisure

In fact, he suggests that work is done for the "sake of leisure" (267). More completely, Aristotle believed that it is important ...

Civilization and Progress

Olympic Games that the Greeks initiated. On the other hand, most of the Greek citizens were obliged to labor for the purpos...

Inability to Ever Justify Cheating

to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...

Are Principles Chosen or Inherited?

the society and, subsequently, from the self. Sartres concept of alienation was certainly different from Marxs. Of course, Mar...

Dennis Bonnette's Origin Of The Human Species

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...

Nature Concept

and the construction company wants to get on with their job of building whatever. Henry David Thoreau, in Walden Pond, written i...

Moral Theories of Aristotle and John Stuart Mill

In five pages this paper discusses Aristotle and J.S. Mill in a contrast and comparison of their moral philosophies. Two sources ...