Philosophy Essays

Philosophical Concept Of Friendship
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Introduction: I would like to discuss in this paper the concept of “friendship” and its significance in our life. The concept of “friendship” has old roots and Aristotle defined it many cent...

The Value Of Happiness In The Workplace
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Introduction: To write this essay, I mixed the main findings of the text and included some additional references with my own opinion. I believe that the text wants us to reflect on this question: does work allow ha...

Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman
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Introduction: When in 1792 the French minister for education proposed a revolutionary system of state-supported system of public education for men only, Mary Wollstonecraft was outraged. As a concrete embodiment of...

Is There Life On Mars?
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Introduction: In order to conclude whether a life-form can exist on Mars, much research must be done in order to gain an understanding of its atmosphere, surface, nutrients and minerals available to possible biolog...

David Hume: Philosophy Analysis
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Introduction: David Home was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in spring 1711. Hume originally studied law but then changed his mind and decided to focus only on philosophy and learning. He also had no interest in prof...

Morality And Ethics In Law Enforcement
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Introduction: Ethics is defined as study of moralitys effect on conduct: the study of moral standards and how they affect conduct. Morality is accepted moral standards; standards of conduct that are generally accep...

State Of Nature: Hobbes And Locke
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Introduction: Thomas Hobbes and John Locke applied fundamentally similar methodologies and presuppositions to create justifications for statehood; both have a belief in a universal natural law made known to man thr...

Is Alcoholism A Disease?
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Introduction: This paper explores ten published articles that report about alcoholism. There are two sides: alcoholism is a disease or not a disease. Most of articles agree with a statement “alcoholism is a d...

Analysis Of The Cartesian Dualism
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Introduction: There is the relationship between a reason and an action when the reason explains the action by giving the agent’s reason for doing what he did. The reason explains the action in this way (a rea...

The Theory Of Knowledge
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Introduction: Option 3; “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to kn...

Dworkin's Theory Of Law As Integrity
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Introduction: Integrity in law essentially is a theory about the interpretation of the law. Dworkin proposed a view that the interpretation in the law should be guided by the concept of integrity. He believes that ...

Theoretical Perspective Of Principal Agent Theory
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Introduction: According to Random House Dictionary, theory is “a coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation for a class of phenomena”. In the formal meanings of the term, t...

The Morality Of Mercy Killing
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Introduction: Why is there such a thing in our world that is called mercy killing?, why? In this report I will discuss about euthanasia or mercy killing. Euthanasia is the deliberate killing of a person for the ben...

History: The Act Of God Defence
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Introduction: The Law of Tort is a developing and ever dynamic field and is a conception evolving through centuries. This field is used with principles under which tortuous liability can be demanded. Simultaneously...

Professional Ethics: Compare And Contrast
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Introduction: Professionals carry a lot of moral responsibilities to those in the population in general, and to society. Professionals can act on informed decisions that the public cannot, because the public lacks...

Ethical Implications Of Layoffs And Downsizing
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Introduction: The business world has been facing a tough and complex market environment in the recent years. As the economy swings down, majority of firms try find themselves is try to cut some costs and increase p...

Abortion: An Ethical Issue
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Introduction: Abortion means terminating pregnancy. Abortion is widespread now days all over the world. Abortion is the most controversial subject when it comes to ethical issue. Ethical issues in abortion involve ...

Platos' Allegory Of The Cave: Importance Today
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Introduction: Our society so values education that sociologists have recognized the problem of “over-education” (Hadjicostandi). Many people are spending years pursuing degrees which they simply do not ...

Comparison: Buddhism And Jainism
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Introduction: 1) There are many similarities and many differences between Buddhism and Jainism. To begin, we will start by discussing the similarities in both. In Jainism and Buddhism rather than having a God or c...

Camus: The Stranger And Existentialism
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Introduction: Existentialism is freedom and choice. It is impossible to define existentialism. We can witness some aspects of existentialism in The Stranger. Existentialists want to direct our attention to our ind...

The Power Of Words In Influencing Attitudes
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Introduction: To recognize how words have the power to create and affect attitudes, behavior, and perception one must first understand their own conscience and belief system. Words have meaning, but no power unless...

Merits And Demerits Of Utilitarianism
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Introduction: Over the history of philosophy, utilitarianism has been widely regarded as an influential and convincing approach to normative ethics. It would not be possible to dissect and thoroughly discuss the ma...

Describing And Defining Conscience
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Introduction: According to the definition in Colliers encyclopaedia, conscience is the human beings direct or deliberate conviction of right or wrong in resistance to the humans strong impulses and desires, conscie...

Socrates's Theory of Forms
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Introduction: Theory of Forms Introduction Knowledge about the world is developed by basing on the things we see, listen and perceive and the information about these things is dependent on the senses and our perce...

Influential Thinkers In Enlightenment
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Introduction: The most significant development in the 18th century was intellectual progress, known as the Enlightenment. It is a thought movement which gathered various conceptions of god, nature and human beings ...