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Essays 511 - 540
through a consideration not of personal benefit but simply on the basis that the choices are the only rational ones. Kant argues ...
to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...
the reader into the oppressive world of slavery. Indeed, it was the authors desire to bring attention to the injustices faced by ...
to Grotius more humane perspective was that of Jacques-Benigne Bossuets, who "reinforced medieval notions of kingship in his theor...
trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...
the society and, subsequently, from the self. Sartres concept of alienation was certainly different from Marxs. Of course, Mar...
according to The Columbia Encyclopedia is "imposition of penalty of death by the state" (Capital Punishment, 1993). Altho...
told us we had to leave, or go to jail. My mother came out of the house crying, we children knew there was trouble, but we were c...
even know that IV drug use is. Should such persons be subject to taking unnecessary tests, or rather, should the government trust ...
In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...
theory is brought forth numerous times throughout Aristotles well-read and well-quoted Nichomachean Ethics. Aristotles vie...
noted for acerbity or harshness in his work; even though he was in many respects critical of the way in which contemporary society...
only in the perception of the one who desires it....
Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the philosophies of Thomas Paine and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Three sources are cited...
Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...
and the construction company wants to get on with their job of building whatever. Henry David Thoreau, in Walden Pond, written i...
their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...
lying promise is something that is said in order to achieve a favorable outcome. What if someone has a gun to the victims childs h...
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...
ability to allow us the opportunity to interpret the rational through the concrete forms presented in art. Hegel believed that ...
true of actions as well as other events, not in order to argue that determinism is compatible with actions being freely performed ...
the solider represents the state and the people are merely innocent bystanders. At the same time, during a draft, one could also a...
(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...
of yourself and your natural abilities, or your position in society. You know nothing of your sex, race, nationality, or individua...
it was necessary to develop an account of human nature....
being destroyed, ironically enough, by the very systems designed to preserve them. In his book, he manages to leave no one in th...
by Eastern religions. A "Master" discerns the attainment of religious enlightenment in his novices according to how a novice beh...
unusual for a theologian (St. Thomas Aquinas, 2002). Aquinas made many significant contributions to philosophy and specifically i...
Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Mill.htm). An advocate of this particular perspective, "Popper thought that both Mill and Comte were wrong...