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to end in failure. This paper will explore the pursuit of happiness in the context of the balance between two traditional extremes...
In five pages this paper examines the Bourdieu and Kant philosophical views represented in these texts by Barker and Du Maurier. ...
the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...
achieve this level of human excellence by adhering to the fourteen axioms acts of Nicomachean Ethics, which included gentility, ho...
it will occur; which leads to the Conclusion: "no action is free" (Cahn, 1971, 39). Hard determinism argues that these two premi...
who will eventually hold office and decide what to pursue in respect to issues like abortion, stem cell research and capital punis...
human being for a short span of time. The cave allegory is quite well known and has been used by many to interpret Platos philosop...
the topic of education. He says, "Next, said I, compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as t...
importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...
the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...
what he actually did. At the same time, it is not as if this philosopher threw out the basic tenets of reasoning. He did find it n...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
holds that terms such as "good" and "right" are defined on the basis of which behavior provides the greatest benefit to the larges...
in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...
where nothing detrimental occurs. In fact, Fast Company publishes ethical problems and lies that contributors send in on an annual...
power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...
what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...
exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transcendence then exceeds all human capacity. This concept is not foreign to the re...
however, the experience of individuals living under such regimes in the past may well be useful for understanding and interpreting...
ethical theory that supports killing off twice as many people to save half as many because you like them better. That is unethica...
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at the moral obligations of pharmaceutical companies. Philosophical arguments are made t...
In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at MLK and Gandhi. Philosophical differences are emphasized. Paper uses three sources....
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Murders in the Rue Morgue". The story is analyzed for its philosophical stance on ...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at lawful explanations in archaeology. A philosophical counter-argument is developed. P...
This paper explores the ways the ancient views of religion changed in response to the philosophical schools. There are three sour...
Ethical violations and philosophical theories in the case of PharmaCARE, a fictitious pharmaceutical firm. There are 8 sources lis...
In five pages this paper examines the philosophical debate regarding determinism versus free will with the use of the texts Donald...
In this six page consideration of life after death various philosophical arguments are examined in an attempt to draw a definitive...
bits of philosophy. For example, transcendental meditation is thought by some westerners as being a way one opens the door to the ...
In five pages Hume's attack on the self or personal identity is discussed as represented in A Treatise of Human Nature and also co...