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Women's Rights in On Liberty and The Subjection of Women by J.S. Mill

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

Philosophers on Life's Meaning

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

A Comparison between the Puritans and the Cavaliers

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

Identity in the Novel as a Philosophical Exploration

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

Liberty and Autonomy According to Immanuel Kant

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

Social Contributions of Philosophers

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

Knowledge Analysis by David Hume

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

Legal Positivism and the Philosophical Contribution of Hart

the idea that there are reasons for implementing law beyond the idea of just maintaining law and order. Other supporters of positi...

Contemporary Society and Classical Theory

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

Comparison of Gould and Bacon

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...

Philosophical Conjecture and Morality

exist myriad philosophies by which people live their lives, which help maintain order and a sense of direction that otherwise woul...

There is Never a Justification for Lying

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

2000 Case of Conjoined Twins and Legal Alternatives

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

Existence of Traditional Family Values

values that were presented to us in the middle of the 20th century. And, according to many, family values "is a code name devised ...

Ethical Foundations Laid by Confucius and Immanuel Kant

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

Philosophies of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Nietzsche

strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...

Perspectives on Universality

(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...

Charles Dickens' Hard Times

does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...

Overview of Perception

are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...

Theories and Methods of Socrates and Plato

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

Martin Luther King Jr. and Rene Descartes on Skepticism

He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...

Euthanasia or PAS

himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...

A Card Game and Dinner Party with Guests Locke, Sartre, Nietzsche, Descartes, Maimonides, and Averroes

with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...

The Government According to Aristotle

that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...

Adult Punishment for Murderous Teens

"hoppers" and "superpredators" (Wagner, 2001). And during one week in California, youth committed heinous crimes including one 15-...

Race According to Charles R. Lawrence and John Stuart Mill

anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....

Socratic Philosophy and Plato

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

The Social Contract and Autonomy

world, few governments would allow either situation to exist. Yet, it would be troubling for anyone to be completely dominated by ...

Theology in an Exploration of Space and Time

Moltmann's ideas are used to incite discussion on time and space issues in this paper of fourteen pages with time defined and the ...

Music Philosophy

well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...