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Exploring the Concept of An Ideal Society

In five pages the ideal society is pondered from different angles that include democratic and capitalist systems modifications wit...

Williams' Is and Ought

only in the perception of the one who desires it....

World Knowledge and the Mind

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

Victorian Critic and Poet Matthew Arnold

noted for acerbity or harshness in his work; even though he was in many respects critical of the way in which contemporary society...

Thomas Paine and Ralph Waldo Emerson

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophies of Thomas Paine and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Three sources are cited...

Buddhism and Hinduism

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

Nature Concept

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

Are Principles Chosen or Inherited?

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

Contemporary Machiavellianism

and "advisors" were, in many ways, far more powerful than the aristocrat holding office. Machiavelli himself was such a creature ...

Life and Concepts of Karl Marx

that created a chasm between the haves and the "have nots." With people working for the government, and each getting an equal stip...

Philosophical Comparison of Benjamin Franklin and Henry David Thoreau

challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...

Medical Practicing on Newly Dead Bodies and Ethics

that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...

Effecting Societal ChangeTwo Approaches to Societal Change: Elshtain's “Democracy on Trial” and West's “Race Matters”

address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...

Moral Responsibility, Determinism, and Free Will

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

Medicine and Culture: Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England, West Germany, and France by Lynn Payer

between the patient and physician (technology, caring and values) are always present but may differ in balance. In addition, the r...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

Position Paper on Drugs Legalization

arguments these days is that one would not want a physician operating on one when the physician is using marijuana on his off hour...

Social Contributions of Immanuel Kant

the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...

Understanding What it Means to be a Social Justice Educator

individual who naturally believes in true equality and empowerment across the entire population. The reasons it becomes so confusi...

Worldly Circumstance and Moral Worth

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

New Architectural Urbanism of Rob and Leon Krier

that they are reconstructions of a world that never quite existed...but whose beauty...seductiveness, lies precisely in that mixtu...

Overview of the TX Dept. of Criminal Justice

2002). The Department does not only hire correctional officers. There are a vast array of jobs that include: Correctional Officer...

21st Century and Henry David Thoreau

States and among philosophers in general. While this background was largely unnecessary from the perspective of many of the retre...

Liberal Democratic and Radical Political Schools of Thought Compared

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

'The Aurora of Autumn and the Plain Sense of Things' by Wallace Stevens and 'Wasteland' by T.S. Eliot Compared and Contrasted

to is none other than that of the Romantic period. The person who considered himself a romantic, too, would question some of life...

Shusaku Endo's Deep River

just like their travel mates. As the plot unfolds, however, we find that these four have much more in common than they would care...

Capitalism The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand

1986). Rands "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" (1986) was first published in 1962 and exemplified many of her philosophies of...

Art According to Plato and Aristotle

However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...

Man's Greatest Good and Values

philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...