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The Philosophical Theories Philosophy Term Paper
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Platonic philosophy is hinged on moral virtue as practiced by just rulers. According to him, the man served the State and hence, ethics and politics were the same. This is to be contradistinguished with Machiavellian principles, which states that the State should serve the people. That is its whole reason for being.
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Kant's ethical theory Philosophy Essay
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His findings provide a wide spectrum of implications in order to establish the frameworks of Absolute Empiricism,Absolute Rationalism and Absolute Idealism.In the realm of any ethical theory,there are some standpoints that can be taken,so an ethical system could be Deontological,Teleological,Consequentialist,Relativism/Subjectivism,and Virtue Based Theories.
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Compare and contrast Durkheims and Marxs analysis of Punishment in Modern Society Philosophy Essay
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This study, Compare and contrast Durkheim’s and Marx’s analysis of Punishment in Modern Society, discusses the theory of anomie by Emile Durkheim and his views on punishment and its functional role. In the end the paper compares the views of both these great thinkers and presents the conclusion. 
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David Hume: The Free Will and Responsibility Debate Philosophy Book Report/Review
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Hume moves far beyond the limitations of such a perspective. He understands this reconciliation to be entirely possible and seeks to provide a compatibilist account; a solution to the free will debate. It is in A Treatise of Human Nature (1777) that Hume first engages with these debates and positions himself between the poles of determinism and voluntarism.
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The Concept of Cosmopolitanism Philosophy Essay
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Cosmopolitanism is said to be the concept of where humanity belongs to a single community perhaps based on a shared morality. This may simply refer to an inclusive morality, shared economic relationships of nations, and/or political structures that cover different nations. There transpires mutual respect among individuals belonging to a cosmopolitan community.
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Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein Philosophy Essay
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The author states that while his great influence over the various aspects of philosophical knowledge is widely accepted, there have been several ardent critics of Wittgenstein’s position on the limits of language and his desertion of empirical explanation for linguistic description in his later works.
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Teaching of Socrates Philosophy Essay
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Socrates taught his students the philosophy of questions and answer in order to help the patients or students clarify what the main question is, then the students or patients will then gather the necessary data or materials for him or her to make an analysis of the data gathered. The students or patients will then make, by themselves.
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The Language of Reality Philosophy Essay
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Beyond elementary semantic structures numerous sub-layers of meaning and communication exist to both enrich and complicate the way in which we interact and express our ideas and emotions. It is not what we say, but how we say it.
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What is human nature Philosophy Essay
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The fact of the matter lies in the fact, that man cannot achieve fulfillment if he does not think; this, even as a proposition is considered to be impossible. By goodness of undertaking things, dealing with them, and ultimately being deceived by them, it becomes all the more evident to man that there is a reality that exists.
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The Viability of Primary and Secondary Qualities Philosophy Book Report/Review
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The main point is that our descriptions are of the secondary qualities rather than the underlying properties of the primary qualities.  This is presented in a seemingly simple way, and yet it is very complicated.  Turn off the lights, deprive our senses of the secondary quality, and what we are left with is the primary quality.
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The Nature of Morality Philosophy Essay
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The word morality is used to refer to norms and socially acceptable behavior put forward by the society. It can also be referred to as a behavior which would be thought of as suitable in specified situations.
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Communication: Principles for a Lifetime Philosophy Essay
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The author states that the other group is the mountaineering club he joined which is campus-based but conducts its activities, of course, outside the campus, trekking mountains, camping, and discovering nature. As for roles, his belonging to a group of students is more formal, since he has to register, submit legal documents, adhere to school rules.
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Why should we study rhetoric Philosophy Essay
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Hence, as this essay will illustrate, rhetoric, as a means of communication, is a vital tool, which provides those who use it an effective and efficient means to persuade and be understood. The value of rhetoric, as an effective communication tool lies in its ability to persuade effectively.
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Philosophical Issues of a Good Life Philosophy Term Paper
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In light of the author's life journey and constant search for knowledge, s/he has come up with a personal multi-faceted point on what the good life is. S/he tackled this profound concept in terms of one’s emotional state, ability to hone capabilities, relationship with others, and introspection about the truth.
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Philosophy on Dreaming: Vasomotor Imagery Philosophy Essay
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The author of the paper states that the chief aim of the PDS is to formulate and dramatize dreamers' intrapsychic conflicts and to indicate what dreamers are doing about these conflicts. Conflicts, with contemporaneous anxiety and decreased self-confidence, aggravate concern for the future.
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Why does J. A. Fodor think that there must be a language of thought Is he right Philosophy Essay
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Why does J. A. Fodor think that there must be a language of thought? Is he right? Jerry Fodor is a prominent linguistic philosopher and cognitive scientist. Fodor’s linguistic philosophy eschews structural models of language for an approach that builds on Noam Chomsky’s generative grammar.
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The Influence of Marxian Economics Philosophy Essay
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The author states that from the government to the media to the educational system, one may well make an argument the greatest political success in the western world in the 20th century was the total branding of Marxian economics as a demon. This class has presented a perspective on the economic theories of Marx and Engels.
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The Aporia of Transcendence: a Critical Discussion of Michael Sells Analysis Philosophy Essay
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In his discourse, Sells determines that several of the most notable mystical authors, including Marguerite Porete and Jalaluddin Rumi, use similar dialectical reasoning in their inscriptions. This dialectic sparring leads to the transcendence of aporia or the collapse of language. Scholars have viewed these claims in a positivistic way.
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Does Science Aim at the Truth Philosophy Essay
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Science has been described as “an organized search for knowledge” (Appiah, 1999, p. 87). Based on this, it can be said that science aims at gaining knowledge. However, it is not as clear whether or not science is aiming at uncovering the truth. In fact, trying to determine what the purpose of science raises some major philosophical questions.
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The Tendency in Empiricism Philosophy Essay
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Empiricists deny that it is possible to know by reason alone the nature of what exists; rather, the nature of what exists can be known only through experience. We should reject meaningless ideas or concepts which cannot be specified. We should reject knowledge claims concerning matters of fact about the nature of the world.
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Plato In the Contemporary View Philosophy Book Report/Review
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What never ceases to capture my attention with Plato is how often quotes from Republic appear from time to time in everyday life from father-to-son advice to advertising slogans. The timelessness of this work is a wonder, since the very fabric (pathos) of humanity is explored and appears to be relatively unchanged over the span of two millennia when Republic is read with a relaxed mind.
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Why Is Philosophy Valuable Philosophy Essay
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The stereotype of philosophy as personal opinion buttressed by rhetorical skills may contain a grain of truth, but little more. For as a practice, as opposed to a body of doctrine or ideology, philosophy is more properly regarded as the systematic and critical examination of the grounds for belief.
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Zartmans Concept of Ripeness Philosophy Book Report/Review
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William Zartman believes that this theoretical ripeness for positive mediation is the major factor in both small scale and international negotiation, and should be fully taken into consideration by anyone who wants any number of parties to reach an agreement or resolve a conflict (Zartman 2003).
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Weber's Sociology. The Ideal-Type Explaining Social Phenomena Philosophy Essay
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According to Weber sociology is a particular science of human behaviour and its consequences. For him all kinds of social structures and relationships, cultural objectification are the results of basic individual behaviour. Weber's aim is to interpret actions of individuals in the social world and the ways in which they give meanings to social phenomena.
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The Multicultural and Classic Readings Philosophy Essay
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The author states that the worker becomes alienated from the product he is making because he no longer has any social investment in that product. By way of example, in the agrarian era, a farmer who raised his own crops might sell one portion of the crops in order to produce revenue, but he would also subsist on a portion of them.
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Understanding of ethics and ethical understanding of life event or life stage and of the ceremony that celebrates it Philosophy Essay
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These life stages are critical and comprise birth, marriage, transformation from childhood into adulthood as well as death. Lastly the understanding is related to the celebration of these life stages.
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Harvard justice course MICHAEL SINDEL FREEDOM AND KANT Philosophy Essay
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Freedom involves moral reasoning which includes instances such as killing one person and saving five lives or wait and see the five die even though you had earlier known that the five would die. In the utility principles, man should always do what will elude huge amounts of happiness and avoid what will prevent one from achieving probable happiness.
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Ethical Issues Involved in Animal Testing Philosophy Essay
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The author states that an argument that contests animal testing is the moral status animals. It was noted that animals’ capacity to feel pleasure or pain equate them to humans in terms of moral status. The arguments on the moral status of animals were discussed extensively in Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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India, her Cosmic Structures Philosophy Essay
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One of the best ways to understand India is through its cosmic structures. Hinduism practices a diversity of beliefs. The first and major belief of Hinduism is the belief in the sacred reality, which is founded upon Brahman. Brahman is the ultimate authority on sacred reality. He is considered as the manifest basis of the entire unmanifest.
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The Epistemological and Theoretical Assumptions of Structuralism Philosophy Essay
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Cultural relativists are especially critical of this because they believe structural rationality depicts human thought as uniform and invariable. Today, structuralism is less accepted than other approaches such as post-structuralism and deconstruction. As the political turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s began affecting academia.
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Derridas Deconstructionism Issues Philosophy Essay
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Deconstruction is notoriously difficult to define, unless the definition is a very lengthy one, as it could neither be classified as methodology, pure philosophy nor a system of thought. Derrida said it is nothing and everything. According to him, most things around us have to be deconstructed and reconstructed.
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Neil Postman Philosophy Personal Statement
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Come to think of it, we do have very little of it. We are probably yet to evolve to a stage where we can utilize it to the best of our benefit and to the benefit of everything around us without turning it into a malicious weapon against ourselves. With whatever bit of grey cells, we possess, we have managed to irreversibly destroy more than half the planet which means that for the present species of humans.
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The Basic Teaching of Buddha Philosophy Essay
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Buddhism shares with Hinduism the ideology of reincarnation, aside from stressing spiritual purity and freedom from human care (Buddhism 213). Buddhism teaches that existence involves an amount of unhappiness and that the sole cause of unhappiness is an individual’s attachment to material desires, which are only temporary.
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The Ethical Issues Concerning Abortion Philosophy Essay
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Abortion is a touchy subject, and should be treated as such; however, there is often a good and a bad way to make an argument for either side. The antiabortionists often sit on a moral pedestal, and the pro-choice prefers it to be a sanctuary of human ideas and liberty to make that decision and not have it imposed on them.  
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Law and Justice Relationship Philosophy Philosophy Essay
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Barker writes about Aristotle's viewpoint and how being ruled by a constitution and rotation of office provides everyone with the same rights and worth, rather than being ruled by a king judging by his/her feelings and thereby, not having a 'neutral' mind when exercising authority. Plato suggests powers exercised by a ruler are governed by customary and community rules. Decisions are made in the minds of the rulers and their delegates.
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Francis Fukuyama' s idea of human dignity Philosophy Essay
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Francis Fukuyama is able to stress out the ways in which man is benefiting from the surfacing of biotechnology as he stated in his emergent theory with this idea it is possible to reconcile his idea with Surowiecki with regard to maintaining human dignity amidst man's continuous use of biotechnology.
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A Great Innovator to Content the Soul Philosophy Essay
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The author states that Lawrence starts by stating that all of Whitman's beliefs are a dead man’s beliefs and pictures him with a grey color giving his white skin the darker shade of death. He, Lawrence, pictures him like a maze of human parts. Starting with Whitman’s beliefs on democracy he criticizes his self centrism.
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Lao-Tzu viewpoints on Taoist Philosophy Philosophy Essay
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All things "obtained the One" and came into existence; conversely, without that which gives them life, they naturally die. A new thinking has turned me to focus on Taoist practical philosophy. It does not follow that human beings should be consumed by longings for it.
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Medieval Islamic Philosophy Philosophy Essay
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They were unrefined in their beliefs and attitude. When they had accepted Islam and they conquered territories outside Arabia in the seventh and eighth centuries, they came in contact with other civilizations and cultures, philosophy, and other rational sciences such as mathematics, astronomy, physics, etc.
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The Last Whig by Eisenhower Philosophy Book Report/Review
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The author states that the Whigs, as a political party can be traced back during the period of what History considered as Jacksonian democracy which opposed the policies of President Jackson and the Democratic Party. The Whigs believed in a balanced government, however, it provides for the supremacy of Congress.
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What Did Marx Learn From Rousseau and How Did He Shift the Political Thought Philosophy Book Report/Review
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Freedom is almost certainly the mainly significant value coursing through the work over the last twenty-five years. Your question forces everybody to think about ‘why’. The first thing that this research will highlight that there is something roughly temperamental in one’s normative attachments in political hypothesis.
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Nietzche's Philosophical Understanding of Truth Philosophy Essay
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However diverse the interpretations of the different scholars may be, they all agree that Nietzsche’s philosophy is perspectival. Nietzschean thought claims that there is no singular truth or absolute truth. There is instead a multiplicity of truths. His philosophy states that there is no singular platform or vantage point.
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The Heart Symbol Philosophy Essay
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As long as it can be remembered, the heart symbol as we know it today has existed and appeared in different forms and places. It is one of the constantly recurring symbols from prehistoric times. The heart shape is considered to be a combination of ideograms (“Symbol 20:18”).
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The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures Philosophy Essay
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The author states that the keystone of their thoughts lounges in reason also the unregulated mind. A few of the foremost philosophers were Rousseau, Voltaire, with Montesquieu. Customarily, these Enlightenment composers would employ satire to scorn what they consider as unreasonable mistakes inside the government and social custom.
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Social Theory and Culture Identity Philosophy Essay
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Gilroy (1992), for example, states that European culture was heterogeneous in nature during and after the enlightenment. But, the social theories that were hitherto dominant constructs with little comprehension of the world beyond Europe have become obsolete to understand and interpret the post-modern world.
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The Post-Modern Condition Philosophy Essay
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Signs express a "natural law of value" reflecting a reality that appears to exist in its own right and on its terms. Symbols map an order that is extrinsic to language and culture. Example: Holy Scripture (signifier) reveals God's Law (as object or efferent). By definition, the "Word" cannot be a human artifice.
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Epistemology versus Ontology in Research Design Philosophy Article
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In lieu of the above-mentioned criteria, it is important to realize that the study of culture is relevant to the research design. Therefore, it is imperative for the research design to be one that will be based on gathering, interpretation, and appropriate presentation of the facts. This is a concept supported by ontology, as epistemology simply seeks to study the existing data.
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Continental Philosophy: Existentialism and Phenomenology Philosophy Essay
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Jean-Paul Sartre believed God does not exist and therefore, human beings are abandoned. He wrote that existence precedes essence. Because God does not exist, it follows that we are what we make of ourselves; that there are no reasons for why things are what they should be and that human beings chart their own future
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Daoism and Confucianism Philosophy Essay
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The author states that Confucian followers are concerned with the happenings in the World and the spirit of concern is central to the philosophy. There is great emphasis on self-cultivation in Confucianism leading to ultimate development and salvation in the Western sense.
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Human Nature and Government Philosophy Essay
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For example, Plato, the spoof of the trio of ancient Greeks laid the philosophical foundations of Western culture, saw man's true nature as ration al, a d  believed that civilized society must be organized, and civilized life conducted according to rational principles. Seventeen centuries later, another philosopher Thomas Hobbes invites us to his theory that describes society as a state of nature, a condition without government (Richard 1971).
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