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The Drowning Child Argument
The Drowning Child Argument Zale Small PHIL 110 In 1972, Peter Singer, the philosopher published “Famine, Affluence, and Morality.” In this article his argument is that we have a moral obligation to help others that are suffering from famine and starvation. He uses Bengal as the example in his article
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The Duty of Children
Chase Miller PHIL 251 Essay #3 MWF 1:25 The Duty of Children Isabella Dutton is a mother who wished she never had her children. These are words one would not normally read together in a sentence, much less hear them spoken from someone's mouth. W.D. Ross argues that we have
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The Early Philosophy of David Hume
Hume's Life David Hume was the son of a minor Scottish landowner. His family wanted him to become a lawyer, but he felt an "insurmountable resistance to everything but philosophy and learning". Mr. Hume attended Edinburgh University, and in 1734 he moved to a French town called La Fleche to
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The Effects of Representations of Spaces
How do representations of space affect our relationship to a place? To answer this question, we should perhaps ask ourselves an equally important question: how can we probe nature to learn about it without changing it. By analyzing this question using six main representational themes Ð'- cartographic, political, Cartesian perspectivalism,
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The Effects of Standardized Testing
The Effects of Standardized Testing What is the measure of a man? According to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) a man or student rather can be measured by the scores on their yearly standardized tests (Scogin, Kruger, Jekkals, & Steinfeldt, 2017). These tests were created to provide
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The Effects on Labeling a Juvenile Delinquent
The Effects on Labeling a Juvenile Delinquent Who are criminals? A criminal according to Webster’s Dictionary is a person convicted of a crime. This person has been found guilty amongst a jury of his or her peers. The juvenile courts are different from the adult courts. Juveniles are adjudicated by
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The Epitome of Public Enemy
The Epitome of Public Enemy Political dissidents abound in the United States, a fact that worries conservatives like Michael Barone. In the question of whether a Socratic gadfly is a benefit to society or, as Barone terms it, a "covert enemy," I will explain both Barone's and Socrates' arguments, after
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The Essence of Our Legal System
The Essence of Our Legal System Spending time in the courtroom is definitely not like spending time in front of the television set watching Law and Order. In fact, the two are really nothing alike. A room full of observers and people invested in the case usually does not present
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The Essential Themes of the Meno
There is not a great deal of context that is crucial to understanding the essential themes of the Meno, largely because the dialogue sits nearly at the beginning of western philosophy. Socrates and Plato are working not so much in the context of previous philosophies as in the context of
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The Ethics of Famine Relief - Singer's Approach
THE ETHICS OF FAMINE RELIEF: SINGER'S APPROACH Affuence & Obligation: The Core of Singer's Position i. Affluence means that one has income which one can dispose of without giving up the necessities of life. ii. Affluence, then, is the condition in which one is able to assist those who are
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The Ethics of Keeping Pets
Animals are the under-appreciated co-inhabitants of our planet. I believe that animals should be afforded equal consideration to humans. The only criteria for equal treatment should be the ability to feel pain. As we can demonstrate that all animals with a backbone can feel pain, then all animals with a
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The Ethics of Student-Faculty Business Deals
The Ethics of Student-Faculty Business Deals The Akamai Corporation has meant big money for one Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and one of his students. Back in 1995, Tom Leighton, a professor of applied mathematics at MIT, started playing around with ways to use complex algorithms to ease congestion on
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The Euthyphro
The Euthyphro Essentially, the question at hand is whether something is considered holy because it is loved by the gods or if that which spoken of is loved by the gods because it in itself is holy. The initial problem created is what is to be identified as holy. The
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The Evidence of Afterlife Through Mediumship
The Evidence for the Afterlife in Cases of Mediumship What happens to human beings after the physical death of the body? This issue is controversial. Nevertheless, recent studies have shown evidence for reality of an afterlife. This evidence includes cases of OBEs (out of body experiences), apparitions, alleged memories of
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The Existence of God
There are various forms of arguments for the existence of God. Two such arguments are the Ontological and Cosmological arguments. Both the Ontological and Cosmological arguments have their strengths and weaknesses. However, they have been criticized by Immanuel Kant because he disagrees with both arguments. St. Anselm, Rene Descartes, St.
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The Existence of God: Good and Evil Is It Man Made or God Made?
The Existence of God: Good and Evil is it Man Made or God Made? There are many different cultures around the world, one slightly different than the other, all with the same aim, a greater outcome with greater faith. Faith, devotion, and loyalty are some of the feeling that one
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The Expansion of Cultural Diversity in Canada
The Expansion of Cultural Diversity in Canada Canada is one of the most desired countries in the world to live, agreed upon by it's citizens and chosen by more immigrants each year; marketed by its experience with diversity and stressing its selling points such as; its outstanding reputation as being
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The Experience Machine
Rajpreet Gill-250231288 Philosophy 201G March 4, 2005 The Experience Machine As humans we are constantly in search of understanding the balance between what feels good and what is right. Humans try to take full advantage of experiencing pleasure to its fullest potential. Hedonism claims that pleasure is the highest and
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The Exploration of the Three Waves of Modernity
Nature? History? God? Who need them anyways! The exploration of the three waves of modernity Jack Wise PO-212 Dr. Opanasets 4 December 2015 According to Leo Strauss, political philosophy is the study of “ fundamental questions about the state, government, politics, liberty, justice, and the enforcement of a
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The Extent to Which Laborers Are Alienated (arendt)
ARENDT: To what extent do the workers experience freedom in the institution? Hannah Arendt sees freedom as something that is not just the phenomenon of the will. She sees freedom in the course of politics, wherein there is a public space. This public space is defined by Arendt as a
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The Family of Man
When we think about the word family, we automatically think of our immediate family. Some may occasionally think about extended family, like an aunt, uncle, or cousins. The reality is that the concept of family means so much more. We are all family whether we like it or not. The
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The Fascination of Time
The growth of civilization's discontents is now forcing every branch of therapeutics towards a new demonology. Just as, formerly, invocation, sorcery, possession, exorcism, black sabbaths, metamorphoses, talismans and all the rest were bound up with the suspect capacity for healing and hurting, so today (and more effectively) the apparatus for
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The Fork of David Hume
The principle that conclusions about what ought to be cannot be deduced from premises stating only what is, is sometimes called Hume’s Law. His employment of another distinction between fundamentally different kinds of position is now often nicknamed Hume’s Fork. It is important to realize in both cases that the
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The Four Noble Truths
The Four Noble Truths Siddhartha, after meditating under the pipal tree, described enlightenment as having four noble truths: Dukkha, the noble truth of suffering; Samudaya, the noble truth of the origin of suffering; Nibbana, the noble truth of the cessation of suffering; and Marga, the noble truth of the way
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The Fraud of the Century: the Case of Bernard Madoff
The Fraud Of The Century: The Case Of Bernard Madoff 2.1 Present the facts of the case Bernard Madoff opened his firm in 1960. His business dealt with investment of securities and shares. He used investments by new shareholders to pay returns to earlier shareholders without really making profit from
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The Free Will - Determinism Paradox
The Free Will/Determinism Paradox Most of us humans, I would guess, prefer to think we have free will. That is, we prefer to think we are able to make choices or decisions based upon our own unique volitions. Such thought appeals to our vanities. If we make "good" choices and
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The French Revolution
The French Revolution was one of the most traumatic events in human history. Over seven million people may have died as a result. The immediate reason was the financial crisis caused by French support for the American Revolution. France invested 2 billion pieces of silver to win the war. Her
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The Function of a Social Contract
What is the Function of a Social Contract? Philosophers have been concerned with the theories of a social contract for thousands of years. Plato mentions the concept in Crito and in Republic. These theories have stemmed from the concept of justice and for our society to be just. I will
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The Future of Mankind
If we compare the present with the past, if we trace events at all epochs to their causes, if we examine the elements of human growth, we find that Nature has raised us to what we are, not by fixed laws, but by provisional expedients, and that the principle which
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The Gaze Case
Assignment 2: Milk Customer service is a very important concept in business, but I also believe that what a customer does not know will not hurt him or her. Since we decided to sell the product instead of destroying it, I see no point in telling the customers about the
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