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4 Questions on Philosophy, Hobbes and Peirce

power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...

Morality and Legality in Business Ethics

in the past. Andersens crime (and it is a crime) was obstruction of justice, when it came to shredding the Enron documents. If you...

Philosophy and Morality

a certain set of circumstances, and that would not be acceptable as a moral guide. B) Consider a new law that requires people wit...

Thucydides v. Plato in Defining the Good Life

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

Evaluating the Dualism of Rene Descartes

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

Justice, Murderers, Susan Glaspell's Trifles and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

Socrates' Life and Contributions to Philosophy

(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...

Insights and Concepts Regarding Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

steeled and a heart trans- formed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility" (Nietzsche, p.129). One can see tha...

Western Philosophy and the Middle Ages

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

Knowledge According to Rene Descartes and John Locke

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

Developing a Personal Education Philosophy

the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...

Philosophy and Barker's The Ghost Road and Du Maurier's Rebecca

In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...

Honesty and Ethics in Philosophy

commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...

Greek Culture and the Evolution of Science

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse and The Trial by Franz Kafka

obviously see elements of the man who wrote the story, for Kafka is often considered to be an individual who deeply examined his w...

Legal Profession and Ethics

the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...

"Ferris Bueller" and Four Ethical Traditions

when Jesus says that "He has not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it."4 Theologians argue over the correct interpretation ...

An Exploration of Consciousness

It is not the awareness, however, which overrides the ignorance, it is the cognition (Mohanty, 2001). Knowledge in this regard ca...

Bertrand Russell: The Value Of Philosophy

third wife and third child come a year apart between 1936 and 1937, while his next publication - A History of Western Philosophy -...

Ethics, Justice, Love, Virtue and the Death Penalty

(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...

Marx and Weber and the Origins of Capitalism

if the Weber model is correct. Kilcullen points out that Weber "was perhaps the first great master of the major institutional fac...

Seltzer's Serial Killers

that society, or the perpetrators parents, should not be blamed for any horrific acts. The offender is the only one that someone s...

Choosing a Philosopher

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

Descartes and "The Matrix"

essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...

The Arguments For Torture; Are They Right?

in order to extract the location. While it may be distasteful and unconstitutional, it can also be argued as necessary. The tortur...

Proslogion By Anselm Of Canterbury

his original conclusion that God exists, a being greater than can be conceived. Question: Is this a devotional work or a philoso...

Business Ethics and Moral Issue

reason" (Schlumpf 59). In modern society, there are enormous pressures that tempt business people to take shortcuts in order to ...

"Faust" and "Madame Bovary"

who is, for a good many people, the most entertaining character in the play. Mephistopheles manipulates Faust so that he "loves an...

Morality in The Scarlet Letter

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

White Noise by DeLillo

information we get today, seems to argues such things as the benefits of something but the dangers of that same item. Today people...