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Essays 1921 - 1950

Deciding How to Do the 'Right Thing'

In seven pages this paper examines morality and doing the right thing within the context of the fifteenth chapter of Bowie et al's...

Whistle Blowing and the Theory of Lawrence Kohlberg

In five pages this paper discusses the adaptations of the Piaget and Dewey philosophies that have become to be known as the Kohlbe...

Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, and Thucydides on Government, Human Development, and the Soul

In eight pages the philosophies of these great ancient Greek thinkers on these topics are examined with terms including peitho, ag...

How Harmony and Beauty appears in Taoism and works by Wordsworth

How do the subjects of harmony and beauty enter Taoism and the works of Wordsworth? The writer notes that Wordsworth was not a Tao...

Contradictions of Karl Marx

In five pages this paper compares Hegelian philosophy to Marxism in a consideration of one of Marx's theoretical contradictions. ...

Social Contract and John Locke

to take away the fundamental rights of freedom and liberty, that the government should be overthrown. When we look at the i...

Community, Rousseau, and Hobbes

In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and Jean Jacques Rousseau in a consideration of community and ...

Comparative Analysis of the Theories of Karl Marx and Jean Jacques Rousseau

at the essential nature of man. The nature of man is such that it is a favorite subject of philosophers. Hobbes for example sees t...

Society, Personal Perceptions, Nietzsche and Hegel

In six pages this paper examines how society's outlook is reflected in individual perceptions in an analysis of Nietzsche's On the...

Culture of America and the Influence of Japan

In four pages this paper discusses how Japanese culture has influenced American philosophy and business. Three sources are cited ...

Clark's Philosophers Who Believe

In five pages this paper examines philosophy and the nature of religious faith as considered in Clark's 1997 text Philosophers Who...

Aristotle on Nonrelative Virtues

In five pages virtues and their relativity are debated by Aristotelian philosophy and an argument by Martha Nussbaum featured in ...

Lindlahr's Natural Therapeutics Compared to Five Articles

The natural approach to treating illness and maintaining health has become popular in recent years. Philosophy of Natural Therapeu...

Nursing and Reflective Practice Techniques

Nursing and the training of nurses through reflective practice techniques are examined in 11 pages with the importance of applying...

Le Corbusier's and Venturi's Architecture

In five pages this paper examines these architects and their philosophies in an examination of Harvard University's Carpenter Cent...

Saint Augustine of Hippo and Plato's Influence

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington

(Anonymous Booker T. Washington ... one Americas leading educators, 1995; p. 16). This was because Washington taught a subtle kind...

Divine Justice and Fate Reflected in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and Inferno by Dante Alighieri

poem makes it clear that the human soul can only enjoy a happy eternity by pledging complete faith and allegiance in God, Boccacci...

Workplace Equity

workplace issues and discrimination are at the forefront. There are of course laws that protect against discrimination in terms of...

Courts and Ethics

technical crime. It is worth noting that ethics is not what values are actually held by the courts or the individuals, but of th...

Symbolism and Theme of Plato's Allegory of the Cave

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

Karl Marx, Immanuel Kant, and Albert Camus' The Stranger

their own minds, try to "find" a motivation for Mersaults actions. Mersault is eventually convicted and sentenced with a motive th...

Value of Piety

Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...

Beuys and Warhol, Two Different Artists

The life of Joseph Beuys began as a very conservative one as he was the only child born in a Catholic middle class family in Krefe...

Existentialism and Albert Camus

explanation, and ultimately irrational," but he also "considered life valuable and worth defending. While the American public thou...

Dharma and Hinduism

Hindus in that they also believe that dharma is a natural universal law which is in and pervades everything. To live in harmony wi...

Duty, Morality, and Immanuel Kant

critics contending that dialogue apart from justice is nothing more than a veiled continuation of social domination. Distin...

Scientific Theories of Thomas Kuhn

break through by inventing a new paradigm are] almost always...either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they chan...

Everyday Life and the Morality Aspects of Virtue and Vice

In eight pages the issues considered in Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life by Sommers and Sommers are discussed as they relate to al...

Determinism, Free Will, and James Cagney

In five pages the determinism and free will philosophies of Richard Taylor, Walter T. Stace, and Baron D'Holbach are applied to th...