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Philosophical Perspectives on Personal Identity

Irish bishop, feared that the philosophies and science of his era were constituting a threat to Christian faith, due to their prom...

Letter to the Editor and Utilitarian Philosophy

In two pages this paper is structured as a letter to the editor and considers capital punishment form a utilitarian philosophical ...

Developing Professional Identity

New therapists or counselors will continue to develop who they are through additional study, discussions, and most of all, experie...

What is Identity Theory

Social psychologists have identified at least four types of identity theories. This paper discusses two of them, identity as in pe...

Organized Crime

the society was used to having it and thus would not simply sit quite while it was illegal. But, Prohibition is a good example of ...

Faith

in this case the history of religions, any particular "religion" does not seem to mean a great deal. Faith is a very personal issu...

Attack on Personal Identity by David Hume and Karl Popper's Response

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...

Self Identity Problems

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

Schools of Philosophy as Used in Nursing

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

Argumentative Essay on the Personal Decision of Abortion

involves a critical evaluation of values and desires, and to act in accordance with them after careful reflection. Valuing a pers...

Animal Consciousness, Physicalism, and Personal Identity According to Nagel and Locke

the only species that truly does not understand the depth and intensity that animals possess in their special consciousness. When...

Special Education Concepts

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

Personal Identity According to Swinburne

of these issues is apt, Olson provides an explanation that is easier to comprehend for the average reader. Swinburnes first issu...

Personal Identity of David Hume

or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...

Intricacies of Nursing Identity

This essay pertains to a nursing student's sense of nursing identity. The writer discusses the student's personal perspective and ...

Cultural Diversity, Racial Intolerance, and Personal Identity

In six pages this paper examines cultural diversity from the perspectives of racial intolerance and personal identity. Ten source...

Conflict and Social Identity Theory

In five pages this paper examines group social identity in a consideration of the personality conflict perspectives of Carl Rogers...

A Personal System of Philosophy

Even in the absence of hard and fast codes of ethics such as those that exist for some professions, there are certain basic guidel...

HUmans are More Alike Than Different

was 500,000. By 1998, that number soared to 5.5 million households. That was a 72 percent increase. The number of births to unwed ...

Performance Assessment within the National Health Service (NHS)

performance assessments from a legal perspective, a professional perspective and an ethical perspective. 2. Performance Assessment...

Social Identity and Personal Identity

the basis of obvious characteristics such as race. Interaction with other groups is not even a prerequisite for such categorizati...

Developing a Personal Education Philosophy

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

Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality by John Perry and Self Identity

a persons soul retain identity after the body is gone? In other words, even if the soul survived but none of that element which wa...

Personal Identity's Growth and Development

Relationship to the body Identity, whether we recognize it or not, starts with the physical body. Biblical writers often used th...

Identity - Article Summaries and Two Questions

the need and perception ideas change, but evidences the fact that they do not, and ideas remain. Lunbeck, Elizabeth 2000. Identit...

The Change in the Views of Stakeholders

Public relations must be concerned about the perceptions of the key stakeholders, the groups and individuals whose behaviors can h...

Ethics of Capital Punishment Case Study

The problem with meaning as it relates to Kantian duty is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connotati...

Thomas Youk's Assisted Suicide Aired on Television

particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...

Personal Reflection, Adult Learning

This essay presents a personal reflection that synthesizes adult learning, and the personal perspective of the writer. Three pages...

Adolescents That Are Severely Emotionally Disturbed and Education

In seventy pages this is a model graduate level research thesis that provides both case studies and diagnostic evaluation under th...