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LIFE STAGES AND CONCERNS OF CONFUCIUS

way of the World explains what a Junzi does when it comes to the dealings of this world Applying the third of Confucius philosop...

The Cultural Revolution and Educational Reform

the most heavily debated political and ideological programs in the history of the world. Established by Mao Tse-Tung as a reaction...

Policies of Birth Control in China

In eight pages the philosophical views of Pythagoras, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill are applied to an exploration of the bir...

Social Darwinism in American Thought by Richard Hofstadter

In five pages this paper presents an analysis of Richard Hofstadter's philosophical consideration of 19th century Social Darwinism...

Philosophical Views on Human History

In five pages this paper discusses society's development in relationship to humans in a consideration of the philosophical perspec...

Political Theory of Jewish Philosopher Moses Maimonides

the context of a modern society. Certainly, today Maimonides instruction to beat wives who neglect their wifely "duties" would not...

Reasons or Causes and Individual Actions

In fourteen pages the causality of people's actions and whether or not they are rooted in reasons are examined through social scie...

Ramanuja and Sankara Compared

In five pages two Indian Vedanta philosophical doctrines are examined in a comparative analysis. Six sources are cited in the bib...

Philosophy and the Concept of 'Good'

What constitutes good is considered from a philosophical perspective in five pages with the focus being on the philosophies of Pla...

Soul's Role in Plato's The Republic and Phaedo

In ten pages this research paper examines Plato's portrayal of the soul as being imprisoned and how it relates to a harmonious sta...

'Evil Genius' and Rene Descartes

significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...

German Middle Ages and Philosopher Leo Strauss

hearts of those he represented. It was Strauss ongoing quest to delve into the deepest recesses of German intellectuals and polit...

Unstoppable Knowledge Pursuit

In five pages this paper considers the philosophical views of David Hume and Socrates regarding Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation ...

Charles S. Peirce's Philosophical Perspective

demonstrate the method that the self employs to gain knowledge of the world. The first question has to do with whether or not th...

Interior Design and Minimalism

In fifteen pages this paper examines minimalist art's interior design extension and considers its Eastern philosophical relevance....

French Revolution and Napoleon

Rather, they wanted what they called "enlightened despots" like Empress Catherine of Russia or Joseph II of Habsburg (18). They th...

Evaluating On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because ...

Civil Disobedience and Philosophy

permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...

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...

Philosophical Views on Individual Good v. Community Good

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

Abolishing the Patent Monopoly

biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...

Overview of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

John Dewey and Richard Rorty Philosophical Parallels

our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

Christine Busalacchi and Euthanasia

that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...

Perceptions and Awareness of Aesthetics

our manner of interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or ...

Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Ethics

the realm of reality as researchers in the United Kingdom produced a cloned sheep and others at the University of Tennessee cloned...

A Review of Two Faces of Intention by Michael Bratman

There are many easily-identifiable situations in which an individual may have intention to act but cannot follow through with the ...

Mozart's Don Giovanni and the Themes of Enlightenment and Class Conflict

the text should fit the music, not the other way around. His opera, La Nozza de Figaro, while following the parameters of the comi...

Goodness and Philosophy

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

Civilization's Future, Women, and Liberty According to J.S. Mill

in order to protect society. Mill does advocate freedom to a great extent, but not to the extent that it hurts other members of th...