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The Legalization of Gambling: Its Social Impact and the Reasons for Its Continuation Paper Outline

Psychological and Family Studies ii) The Responsibility of the State on Compulsive Gambling iii) Studies from Gamblers Anonymous...

Mandatory HIV Testing for Pregnant Women

transmission of this disease (Chow, 2005, p. 38). In other words there is no disagreement over the positive benefits of HIV screen...

Nursing Professionalism

it is also something that people must essentially be trained for, go to school for, and seek out as a career, at least for much of...

Illegal Immigrants

wages, building various products Americans use. They are not simply field workers, and yet their role as field workers is relied u...

Treatment of Women/17th Century New England

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

Comparative Analysis of David Hume and John Locke

only from a scientific standpoint but from a philosophical and political standpoint as well. British philosopher John Lock...

Does Meditations Represent a Contradictory Rene Descartes?

that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...

Kierkegaard on Human Nature

or that their lives are even close to resembling those of the first disciples?" (as qtd. in Galli, 2002, p.62). He poses a good qu...

Apperception Principle of Immanuel Kant

circumstances or the surrounding empirical conditions (158). Kant goes on to elaborate on this point but concludes with an interes...

Analyzing David Hume's Essay 'Miracles'

other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...

Anti Innate Principle Argument of John Locke

that standard then the entire concept of innate knowledge cannot possibly be true. He further argues that those who say...

Philosophers Compared and Contrasted

The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...

Israel Lobby, Article Summation

as well as many politicians, who regard the creation of the Israeli state as the "fulfillment of biblical prophecy" (Mearsheimer a...

Quiz Show, John Turturro's Performance

This essay presents an argument that John Turturro's performance as Herbert Stempel is crucial to this film's structure and plot. ...

"Human Freedom and the Self" by Roderick Chisholm: An Argumentative Essay

Professor Chisholm's argument and counterargument are presented in a paper of 6 pages that ultimately supports the philosopher's c...

Animal Consciousness, Physicalism, and Personal Identity According to Nagel and Locke

the only species that truly does not understand the depth and intensity that animals possess in their special consciousness. When...

Aristotle's Concepts of Excellence and Happiness

being within society: "the proper excellence or virtue of man will be the habit or trained faculty that makes a man good and makes...

Property as Defined by Edmund Burke and John Locke

to hold property" (Child, 1990, p. 578). For him, it was an inherent and instinctive part of human nature. In Chapter 5, "Of Pro...

Plato's Examination of the Soul

In a paper that consists of eight pages Plato's interpretation of the soul and its parts are explored along with a discussion of t...

Ethics and Biogenetics

to heart disease and diabetes (Webster, 1999). Thanks to biogenetics, in fact, researchers can grow human cells in the laboratory ...

Contrasting and Comparison of the Virtue Philosophical Perspectives of Aristotle and Confucius

correct them by illustrating how values are an integral component of personhood. Indeed, it can readily be argued how the concept...

State Views of Aristotle and John Locke

in which truth is believed to derive chiefly from experience" (Nichols, 2003, p. 20). In order to explore his general theory, it p...

Carl L. Becker's Rejection of Popular Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

Explaining the Difference in Human Nature Theories of Saint Augustine and Plato

important characteristics of Platos concept revolve around freedom of will and ones existence. People have the power to control t...

Spiritual Growth and Soren Kierkegaard

between ethics and religion.4 Because this seems whimsical at best and cumbersome, even nonsensical at worst, Im very glad to hea...

Rationalism and the Concepts of Rene Descartes and David Hume

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

Differing Views of Tragedy by Assorted Philosophers

of the tragedy is that it is connected with the heros activities and it emphasizes human vulnerability (2005). To Aristotle, trage...

Is Utilitarianism a Coherent Position to Take in Ethics?

the greatest number." We can see if that makes sense in regard to a coherent position in ethics, as De George explains it. Lets l...

Peirce and Hume on Skepticism

director of our own narrative, but we can never say for certain how the story will end. Although we make plans, and try to foresee...

Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Marx on Equality and Liberty

Marx, the freedom was not in the ability to acquire wealth, or the opportunities, but rather in equality. It was the ability to li...