Philosophy Essays

Abortion And The View Of Richard Selzer
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Introduction: In his essay, “What I Saw at the Abortion,” Dr. Richard Selzer writes about his experience witnessing an abortion for the first time. Selzers article persuade readers from the side of pro-...

The History Of Descartes Dream Argument
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Introduction: In this paper, I will be discussing Descartes dream argument for which I will try to find reliable signs between being asleep and awake. When looking at Descartes argument I find it to be a valid ar...

Environmental Ethics And Social Responsibility
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Introduction: Environmental ethics has become a hot topic of the modern era. Gone are the days of our natural surroundings being an afterthought. We, as a society, are now fully aware of the natural habitat in whic...

The Pragmatic Theory Of Truth William James
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Introduction: The Pragmatic theory of truth is made up of the accounts, definitions, and theories of the concept truth that distinguish the philosophies of pragmatism and pragmaticism. This concept of truth is the ...

Tragic Heros In Shakespeare
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Introduction: Macbeth serves as an example of a tragic hero in Shakespeare s Macbeth. His tragic decision stems from the influence of a tragic flaw. Once he has made the decision, it is irreversible, and produces h...

Scientific Knowledge Not Like Other Forms Of Knowledge
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Introduction: The argument that science possesses some inherent features not possessed by other disciplines, thus making scientific knowledge distinct from other forms of knowledge has long been debated by philosop...

"All Men By Nature Desire Knowledge"
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Introduction: “All men by nature desire knowledge” quoted from Aristotles work “Metaphysics”. Aristotle raises the idea of humans need for knowledge. Since the dawn of human life, we have b...

Locke's Criterion Of Personal Identity
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Introduction: Who am I? What makes me, me? The theory of personal identity has been considered one of the most complicated questions that philosophy has taken a deeper look into. The theory of personal identity tri...

The Doctrine Of Double Effect
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Introduction: The Doctrine of Double Effect The principle of double effect also called the doctrine of double effect normally applied in the medicine, palliative care and war fields is always invoked in order to ex...

Experts Are Not Always Right
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Introduction: First and foremost who is an expert. An expert may be defined as someone or is said to be someone widely recognized as a person having special skill or knowledge about a particular thing. An expert in...

True and something believed to be true
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Introduction: In the gospel of John in the New Testament (18:28-40), Jesus is brought before Pontius Pilate, a Roman governor. Pilate, who is a sensible and experienced man, is perplexed as to what Jesus has done t...

Descartes And Locke: The Matrix
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Introduction: Computer programmer Thomas A. Anderson leads a secret life as a hacker under the pseudonym “Neo” and wishes to learn the answer to the question “What is the Matrix?” The myster...

The Concept Of Governmentality
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Introduction: The concept of governmentality is a neologism used by Michel Foucault in his work on modern forms of political power. It is a term that combines government and ......

The Philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli
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Introduction: Who was Machiavelli the prince? What were his beliefs? Machiavelli was an Italian student of history, who was an ambassador in Florence Italy. He was a long time official in the Florentine Republic, w...

Difference Between Murder And Manslaughter
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Introduction: The prosecution must prove beyond all reasonable doubt Woolmington [1935] that the defendant committed the offence (actus reus) and also had the necessary state of mind for committing the offence (men...

Is Morality Relative To Culture?
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Introduction: It’s has been charged that truth or justification of moral judgement is not relative to some group of persons, but absolute. After having defined both objectivism and cultural relativism views a...

A Response To Peter Singer
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Introduction: In “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” Peter Singer discusses that people are dying in Bengal from a lack of food, shelter, and medical care. Singer discusses in detail how poverty and war ...

The Types And Definitions Of Stigma
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Introduction: Stigma is a Greek word meaning mark, cut or burn into the skin, to identify criminal slaves as polluted and shunned in public. However, in a simple term stigma are classed as being represented for p...

The Teachings Of Buddha And Buddhism
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Introduction: Buddha is the principal figure in the religion of Buddhism, and accounts of his life, discourses and simple rules, which involve the renouncing of earthly pursuits in order to wholly devote one’...

Importance Of Time In Distributed Systems
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Introduction: Time is an important and interesting issue in Distributed Systems for several reasons. First, time is a quantity we always want to measure accurately. In order to know at what time of day a particular...

The Queen Versuse Dudley And Stephens
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Introduction: In this report, I will be using the sited case – The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens (1884) with reference to the relevant moral philosophies to anlayse what are the possible options that people wo...

Aristotle In Virtue Ethics
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Introduction: Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, scientist as well as logician who lived between 384 and 322 BC. Aristotle is highly regarded as one of the famous thinkers in various fields such as political theory...

The Moral Acceptability Of Passive Euthanasia
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Introduction: This paper will discuss the moral permissibility and acceptability of passive euthanasia, especially with regard to active euthanasia. The aim of the paper is to argue for the thesis that passive euth...

Euthanasia From An Islamic Perspective
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Introduction: In our position paper, EUTHANASIA from an Islamic perspective, we are very clear that Active Euthanasia (giving lethal injection to end life, as an example) is not just absolutely prohibited; rather i...

Presence Of Evil Shows God Doesnt Exist
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Apr 2017
Introduction: Evil can be defined as anything that is painful, malicious or disastrous. There is much evil in the world, which can be split into either natural or moral evil. Natural evil refers to suffering caused...