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Comparative Analysis of Plato's, Hobbes' and Locke's Theories

would Hobbes be accepted in todays world? Would he fit in at all? These and other questions loom large. Still, each in their own w...

Symbolism and Theme in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native

supreme being. This attribution was fatalistic in that it meant that there was little hope for mankind overall, however. Man was...

2 Philosophical Questions Examined

the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...

Human Morality

correct, or is it morally superior to allow a twelve year old rape victim to have an abortion? The problem with morality is that i...

Human Understanding According to David Hume

determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...

America's Enlightenment and Pre Revolutionary War Periods

thought as Puritans came to America. Prior to the Revolution such ideals come through in writings by infamous Americans. For examp...

How to Prove That Love Exists

In five pages this paper tries to prove love exists by using Thomas Aquinas' 5 proofs of God's existence. One source is cited in ...

Concepts of Restraint and Freedom in Utopia by Thomas More

the society of sixteenth-century England. For example, the Utopian cities are all built on similar lines, at least as far as possi...

Reasons why 'Virgin Queen' Elizabeth I Never Married

This paper examines why Elizabeth I never wed Spain's Philip II, Robert Dudley, or Thomas Seymour in this historical overview cons...

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...

Agnosticism and Thomas Huxley

had not evolved gradually as Darwin asserted, but had been created by God at a specific time in pre-history and the species which ...

Expression, Morality, and the 'Ethics' of Pornography

dilemma. Smut? Or Artistic Expression? Pornography, which can encompass everything from finely developed...

Motown and Berry Gordy

Vegara, and "Urban Crisis" by Thomas Sugrue. Berry Gordy and Motown Berry Gordy is considered to be the father of Motown. "In ...

Ethical Theories of David Hume

for others, such as Bentham and Mill. One of the positions for which Hume is famous is that we cannot derive ought from is, in oth...

Ideologies of Machiavelli, Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle on Democratic Rule

of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...

Obligation and Impulse in Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

books in particular undergo a metamorphosis in regard to the way that they deal with the eternal conflict between impulse and obli...

Military Leadership

That tendency has led to U.S. involvement in Iraq, a war "many of its military leaders thought was unnecessary, unwise, predicated...

Enlightenment Arguments for and against Separation of Church and State

to petition the government for a redress of grievances" ("First Amendment")). The idea of the separation of church and state was i...

Ethical Leadership: Article Comparison

the primary location where policy is derived. There are myriad ethical considerations in the daily world of business, and each on...

Aristotle & Hume On Ethics

this sentiment and states that it is good when each individual realizes their talents and abilities to their fullest. Speaking in ...

Something is Rotten in Hondo; An Ethical Case Study

in that area, only fifteen miles down the road, accepting that level of emission as long as the plant is staffed only by Mexican w...

Stem Cell Research: Argument Against

of medical advancement that purports to save lives, the necessary research requires the taking of other lives, which presents a di...

African American Artists: Alma Thomas and Romare Bearden

those years, Thomas drew upon all her sensory, childhood memories of rich vegetation, her own garden, the formal plantings of the ...

Gardasil Vaccine/The Debate

young girls to become promiscuous (Gulli, 2006). These groups emphasize that abstinence is the best protection against sexually tr...

In Favor of Abortion

at the moment of birth, then there is no ethical dilemma with abortion. The ethics of the matter come down to a definition, which...

David Maguire/Sacred Choices

this argument on the fact federal policy on such issues as embryonic stem cell research has been decided along religious lines (Ma...

Hume's Concept of Utility

may volunteer to go door to door to collect money for charity. Each makes use of leisure time. Yet, one might attach the actions o...

Morality in The Scarlet Letter

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

Place Of Religious Experience In Lawrence Kohlberg's Ideas Of Human Development

social order that refuses to acknowledge the elements of good and bad. Correspondingly, Fontana (2003) points out how the good "a...

Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing

solely for blasting rap music on his boom box. A local DJ, Mister Senor Love Daddy, who operates a radio station also acts as a co...