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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...

Socrates' Life and Contributions to Philosophy

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

Advanced Nursing Practice Philosophy

therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...

Educational Philosophy

upon an instructor who cannot handle the task. However, those who are called in to substitute for the AWOL educators provide an e...

Western Philosophy and the Middle Ages

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

Personal Influences on Nursing Philosophy

ability has improved considerably, inasmuch as the decisions I now make are more analytical and based upon a broader and more dive...

Utilitarian vs. Kantian Philosophies

universal laws? Clearly, they can sometimes, but other times they would not be thought of in such a manner. John Stuart Mill on th...

Justice and Self Interest Philosophies

when it is expressed as a love of virtue, and justice when it is considered as one of many virtues. For Hobbes, self-interest "ta...

Educational Philosophy of John Dewey

gear pedagogy accordingly, politicians, policymakers and the public at-large are still "stuck" in the old paradigm, which states t...

Nursing Philosophy and Parse's Theory of Human Becoming

draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...

'Good Life' and the Philosophies of Albert Camus, Rene Descartes, and Plato

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

Balance of Philosophy and Nursing Values

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

Comparing the Educational Philosophies of Washington and Du Bois

an emphasis on more practical learning in higher education (Boyce, 2003). Du Bois would focus on the importance of knowledge inclu...

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...

Text Analysis of 'Evil in Modern Thought An Alternative History of Philosophy' by Susan Neiman

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...

History and the Philosophies of Karl Marx

used to understand present and future situations. Interestingly, the author points out that when taking the models of socialism an...

Philosophy of Wellness and Personal Relationships

institution of marriage, and the influence that family structures, including relationship triangles, have on individuals. Because...

Developing a Personal Education Philosophy

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

Human Existence, Civilization, and Philosophy According to Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx

would be no hope of redemption or change. Frankl supports this position by contending that mans search for meaning "is the primar...

Challenges and Achievements of Educational Philosophy

are the most successful in terms of influencing educational development and learner outcomes. As a component of my educational p...

Personal Educational Philosophy

It exists as one of the most effective representations of the progression from ignorance to knowledge and knowledge to wisdom. Th...

Comparing the Philosophies of Buddhism and Aristotle

by way of recognition toward such shortcomings that humanity could overcome this "profound error" (Nehamas, 1994, p. 40), diligent...

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, ...

Professional Practice and Nursing Philosophy

and religious background and beliefs, as well as how the health/illness continuum works within the framework of their life. "Env...

Voltaire's Candide and Literature of the Enlightenment

it from a cavalry captain," etc. (Voltaire, 1995, p. 9). This "genealogy," also subtly parodies the numerous "beget" clauses of t...

Publius Case Study

retrieve the document, hed go to a directory kept on "a Publius-affiliated Web site" and then the "network itself would do the wor...

Virtue Ethics Case Analysis

half weeks pay. Sheila leaves a message on Wandas machine saying that she will pick up the dolls that evening, and a check for her...

The Theory of Utilitarianism

up with perhaps the earliest fully developed system of utilitarianism, of which two prominent features are noteworthy ("Utilitari...

Economy Theory and the Industrial Revolution's Impact

about the factory workers and how they did not feel as if they accomplish anything. This idea of course was born on the backs of t...