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trade. Barbaric pursuits held no interest, and the Chinese certainly knew their medicine and culture were vastly superior. ...

to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...

support for the notion that people must obey the laws of the place in which they are born. How is this accomplished? Aristotle d...

of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...

biotechnology can easily run up to tens of thousands of pages, including text and diagrams (Malone, 2002). Each one must be read w...

worthy but they are not. This leads Kant to further defining what makes good will different from bad will: "A good will is good...

that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...

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

with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...

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

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

We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

should be used to silence the opinions of others makes the implied assumption that his opinions are infallible. Mill grants that i...

well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...

defines pornography, which is that they do not know what it is, but they know it when they see it (11). Similarly, it is not out o...

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

In eight pages this paper examines realism and antirealism concepts, theories, and the impact of scientific, economic, ethical, an...

a moral fashion, it ceases to function in the proper manner and ceases to exert genuine authority over the individual. According ...

In five pages the drug testing issue is examined in terms of various social and philosophical ramifications. Nine sources are cit...

In six pages this paper examines Plato's Gorgias which describes a philosophical dialogue between the title character and Socrates...

In this paper consisting of seven pages a better understanding of such abuses as Amadou Diallo's murder by NYPD officers is provid...

consider the fact that when one stretches his ethical judgment and attempts to justify an immoral act, it can be argued that there...

In five pages this report examines what a 'social contract' means from the philosophical perspectives of Jean Jacques Rousseau and...

In five pages this report explores how the schools of philosophical thought that characterized the Enlightenment have influenced c...

In three pages this paper discusses David Hume's philosophical belief that causation laid the foundation for rational belief with ...

Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, Dallas, San Francisco, St. Louis, and Kansas City (50). Each of ...

In eight pages this paper considers how home is transferred from a physical to philosophical sense in this postmodern novel. Ther...