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Terminal Conditions and Informing Patients

patient, but it could serve to avoid having the same thing happen again in the future. Other Facts, Options and Consequences ...

A Discussion of the Pronouncement I Think

a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...

Identity Issues

certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...

Ethics and Business

new. The result was the death of the brand, all ferries were gradually changed to P&O ferries, the name of the parent company, but...

Kant v. Aristotle on Ethical Issues Involving Performing Surgery That is Unnecessary to Return an Unfit Soldier to Combat

the ability to reason about things within itself, and understand mathematics and other theoretical sciences. The other listens to ...

Sports Journalism and Ethical Theory

In twenty two pages the ethical theories of Rawls, Aristotle, Kant, and Mill are applied to basic principles of sports journalism ...

Morality and Ethics

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

Philosophical Argument on Morally Justifiable Violence and Political Oppression

In five pages Hume, Kant, Cicero, and Plato are discussing how when responding to political oppression violence can be morally jus...

Kant, Marx, Rousseau, and Hobbes on Politics and Human Nature

In nine pages these philosophers are considered regarding their perspectives on human nature and how this helped to shape their re...

Proust and Descartes Regarding Identity

This research report looks at the ideas of these two philosophers through written works. Other works are explored such as those by...

Society and the Individual

In nine pages this paper discusses society and the individual in a consideration of theories by Hegel, Veblen, Thoreau, Kant, Talc...

Philosophical Essays Application 2

Sixteen brief essays that consist of thirty three pages and eight essays on Kant and or Bentham and eight on Aristotle. There is ...

God's Existence 'First Cause' Argument Invalidation

In nine pages this paper presents the 'First Cause' concept and analytically proves it to be invalid with references made to the t...

William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry on Ethics

In twelve pages the case of IBM's Kaveh Moussavi, who would not bribe Mexican officials that resulted in a lost deal, is discussed...

Art Defined by Heidegger, Nietzsche, Hegel, and Kant

In twelve pages this essay considers the art definitions of these philosophers in a comparison and contrast of their similarities ...

A Kantian Perspective on Adultery

This paper consists of seven pages and considers how Kant would view adultery as unethical because it does not support the obligat...

Issues in Philosophy

This research paper addresses eight specific quetions, offering answers, concerning issues that pertain to Kant, Mill and Aristotl...

Business Decisions and Philosophers

In nine pages a business dilemma is examined by consulting philosophers Rawls, Mill, and Kant on how to best handle the economic d...

Does Believing in God's Existence Make Any Sense?

In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...

Moral Reasoning and Utilitarianism

This 8 page paper responds to the question of whether a utilitarian approach to moral reasoning is adequate. The writer first desc...

Conjoined Twins and Ethics

from Jodie to Mary. The venous return passes from Mary to Jodie through a united inferior vena cava and other venous channels in t...

Philosophical Concepts

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

911, the Media, and Ethics

In six pages the media coverage of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is evaluated in terms of ethics and then applies the p...

Nicholas Rescher's Logic of Imperatives

or requesting aid; making prayers; or making "a purely factual assertion" (p. 2). Further, "Laws of nature are sometimes formulat...

Justifying Moral Claims

In seven pages whether or not moral claims can be justified is examined philosophically with an integration of views from Foucault...

Kant, Locke, and Hobbes on the Social Contract and Nature

In 6 pages this paper examines how these philosophers regarded national law and the social contracts of man in a comparison and co...

Philosophy Defined

In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...

Innate Knowledge and the Debate Between Nativism and Empiricism

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

Philosophers on International Relations

donor for their present child in need of a transplant (1990). To Kant, that was wrong and while other segments of society would be...

Aftermath of the 1789 French Revolution

which to maintain the established hierarchy, reasoning that the people should agreed to "submit themselves, their heirs and poster...