Philosophy Essays

The Benefits Of Marijuana Legalization
Example essay. Last modified: 12th May 2017
Introduction: The economic recession that began around January 2008 has taking its toll on several fronts. The recession has affected the U.S. labor markets as seen in the rapidly rising unemployment and underemplo...

Humans Are Selfish By Nature. Discuss.
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Introduction: “Humans are selfish by nature” is a generalisation which is both refuted and supported by religions and moral codes around the world. However, from my experience as a learner, I believe t...

The Moral Philosophy Of Virtue Ethics
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Introduction: Virtue Ethics is a moral philosophy commonly attributed to Plato and Aristotle. The meaning of the word “virtue” for both was that of excellence. Although there are differences in their in...

What is the Most Credible Justification of Punishment?
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Introduction: What is the Most Credible Justification of Punishment? Punishment has been a part of the human society ever since the beginning of civilization. Throughout the history, wrong doings or wrong acts have...

The Inspiration Of Art In Architecture
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Introduction: The essay investigates the inspiration of art in architecture and the links and interchanges between them in the late sixties and early seventies with emphasis on the exchanges between conceptual art ...

Disagreement Aid The Pursuit Of Knowledge
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Introduction: Disagreement may aid the pursuit of knowledge in the natural and human sciences because disagreement fosters new research to justify rival theories. Openness to allow disagreeing points of view and th...

The Four Ethical Paradigms
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Introduction: In Merchant’s book she describes four ethical paradigms, these are the process that individuals view the environment from their viewpoints. Egocentric, Homocentric, Ecocentric, and Multicultural...

Individual Freedom And Rights
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Introduction: “Is it most important to value one’s own life, happiness and interest or to obey the higher authority of the state?” This statement raises the question of the individual’s free...

What The Socratic Method Is
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Introduction: First, we must understand what the Socratic Method is, and how it applies to the notion that the unexamined life is not worth living. The Socratic Method is a process of questioning in which Socrates ...

Socrates Beliefs And Philosophical Statements
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Introduction: According to the Athenians, Socrates was an ugly man. One who walked through the city and humiliated authoritative figures in public places with many people around. Many would say that he “mad...

Ethical Dilemmas Of Animal Testing
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Introduction: This report is based on the Literature Review about ethical dilemma that arises over the controversy of using Animals for Testing and Research Studies. We have tried to explain in brief about Animal T...

Defining And Analysing Personhood
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Introduction: Person hood has always been an ill-defined term. The gray area between animal and person being one targeted and argued over since its original conception. It all seemed to begin with a proposition by ...

The Impact Of Vatsu Shastra
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Introduction: Shelter is one of the basic needs for Human beings. People spend much of their time in their homes. Therefore comfort and environmental conditions are important aspects of a house. Vastu Shastra is th...

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
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Introduction: Having seen written and filmed visions of the future, one would think that by now we would all be moving around on flying skateboards and in hovering cars and that we would have our breakfast served b...

Heterogeneous Space In Architecture
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Introduction: In Space Reader: Heterogeneous Space in Architecture, Michael Hensel, Christopher Hight and Achim Menges discusses the possible approach of heterogeneous space in contemporary architecture through exa...

Ethical Issues In The Human Genome Project
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Introduction: The Human Genome Project was the largest international scientific research conducted in the field of Biology. This research project began in 1990 with a mission of discovering all the genes in human D...

Comparison Of Islamic And Christian Philosophers
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Introduction: According to the Encarta dictionaries, philosophy can be defined as the branch of knowledge that examines the basic concepts of thoughts and a set of beliefs or aims. Islamic philosophy is a style of ...

Debates On Mercy Killings
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Introduction: If a Wife kills her Husband because of the pain he is in from his medical problems. Do you think that she should be charged with manslaughter, homicide, or any other charge acquitted to death of anoth...

Personal Identity And The Soul
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Introduction: The idea of personal identity is a concept we are consciously living but one we are never quite aware of. Our actions are determined by the anticipation of our future pleasures and future pains. This ...

The Soul As The Enduring Self
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Introduction: Furthermore, according to the passage, Stelios in Mars can feel and think exactly the same as real Stelios in the earth mean that Stelios’s soul is still the same. He is able to know who he is, ...

Ethical Theories Of Business
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Introduction: Ethical theory studies different philosophies or systems used to explain and make judgments regarding right/wrong/good/bad. It challenges to bring in clarity, substance, and precision of argument into...

Locke: 'Of Identity And Diversity'
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Introduction: I will begin by analyzing John Locke’s theory of personal identity. Locke describes personal identity in his chapter “Of Identity and Diversity”, where he differentiates identity in...

Is Astrology A Pseudoscience?
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Introduction: In order to ascertain whether or not something is a pseudoscience or ‘fake’ science, one must first know what pseudoscience is. Here, I am going to illustrate the many different points whi...

The Theory Of Parallelism
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Introduction: Mind and body is considered as a separate form of human. By giving an example for mind such as sad, euphoria, angry or happy, it is considered as mind. A mind can be explained as what we called “...

Distinctions Between Whats True, Whats False
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Introduction: The statement “There are no absolute distinctions between what is true and what is false” is both correct and incorrect when examining certain areas of knowledge and ways of knowing. To ev...