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Death Penalty Social and Philosophical Justifications

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

Capital Punishment and American Political Changes

be the greater injustice. It can be contended that Socrates was correct, that the death penalty is an important tool for insuring...

Special Education Concepts

is fair to accommodate golfers who have disabilities because they gain an unfair advantage. However, such beliefs can be detriment...

Concepts of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

is the part of a wise man to believe them no further than right reason makes that which they say appear credible." In other words...

Ideology of NAEYC and Educational Place of DAP

meaningless activities of play, for example, could have a tremendous impact on the development of the child. He identified four c...

Overview of Home Health Nursing Field

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...

Sidney Jourard's Psychological Theories

the layers are slowly and systematically peeled away, revealing increasingly more of the personality of the individual (Williams, ...

Plato and John Stuart Mill on Social Freedom

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...

Badwar's Inverse Proportionality Criticism in 'The Circumstance of Justice'

first of all, wherever friendship or community flourishes, justice doesnt - and when this fades, justice becomes more important. S...

On Germany by Madame Germaine de Stael

writer/tutor reviews Staels text in chronological order, the student researching this topic may wish to contrast and compare the ...

Stanley Cavell and the Truth of Skepticism by Fergus Kerr

natures regiment. As such, familiarity does not lend itself to unaccountability or being troublesome to understand. Why, then, w...

St. Anselm's Ontological Argument from Philosophical Perspectives

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

Practical Ethics by Peter Singer

the universe, in which human beings are pictured a being at the top of the pyramid to one that sees life as an expanding circle th...

Religion and Philosophical Problems

solution. Rousseau was an individual who attempted to incorporate civil religion as that solution. One author tells us that "Rouss...

Boeing Company and Theories of Ethics

2004). John Stuart Mills, in his book Utilitarianism, further stated that not all forms of pleasure were of equal value (Free-Defi...

A Coroporate Morality Case Study

the company as well as its profitability is important to him. Ellis will likely want to go for the deal but the situation does get...

A Corporate Morality Case Study

the company as well as its profitability is important to him. Ellis will likely want to go for the deal but the situation does get...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Global Changes and Cultural Diversity

to treat everyone equally which may mean a policy of affirmative action. One has to recognize race, and then level the playing fie...

Karl Marx's 1844 Manuscripts Ideas

while in society today, the concept is well accepted, Marx prompts one to question the ethics of capitalism. When all is said and ...

Evaluation of an Article on Plato's Republic and Communist Concepts

is a case for communism at least for the lower classes. The supporting premises for that conclusion have already been noted and ge...

Rene Descartes' Contributions

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Philosopher David Hume's Ideologies

considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume

In five pages this research paper considers Hume's philosophical text in an overview of its structure and main points. Six source...

Basic Element Ideologies of Philosophy

and Anaximenes (Is Philosophy Possible?). However, there were a great many others who contributed to the mainstream of postulate...

Knowledge Theories Empiricism and Rationalism

In six pages this paper examines these two philosophical schools of knowledge with the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and...

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder and Philosophical Education

In nineteen pages this paper discusses the philosophical education of teenager Sophie Amundsen in Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder'...