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Can Free Will Exist Amidst Determinism?
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5 pages in length. Most people like to think that human beings possess free will, at least with regard to a wide range of actions. In contrast, however, mankind also thinks that certain people lack the aspect of free will. Many great theorists have contended that the reason some people may, indeed, lack free will is not so much due to the determined nature of their choices and behavior, but rather due to the fact that their behavior is not responsive to their choices in such a manner as to reflect those who do possess free will. When examining this view in further detail, it is important for the student to consider whether or not one can possess free will while at the same time having one's choices and behavior determined by a greater force. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Can Humans Control Nature?
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This 3 page paper uses Natural Selection by Charles Darwin and The Enchiridion by Epictetus as a framework to answer the question, Can humans control nature? Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Can Pre-Emptive War Ever Be Just
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This 7 page paper considers the views of different philosophers on war and pre-emptive war in particular to assess it if can ever be seen as moral. The views of Plato, Aristotle, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Kant and Mills are analysed and compared. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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Can There Be Morality Without God?
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An 8 page argumentative essay that draws on Plato's Euthyphro and Nielsen's article "God and the Good" to consider the question in the title. The writes argues that "yes" morality is possible without consideration of God's will, or in Plato's case, the will of the gods. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Can We Know Something That Has Not Yet Been Proven True?
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This 7 page paper considers how truth may be proven, and how, without the ability to gain an ultimate truth we can determine what is and is not true without proof. The paper includes consideration of Popper, Kant and Hume as well as apriori truths and posteriori truths. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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Capital Punishment: The Philosophies of the Ancient Greeks, Kant, Mill, and Contemporary Thinkers
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A 10 page examination of the moral acceptability of capital punishment. Explores the opinions of Pythagoras, Socrates, Kant, Mill, and others to determine if their is a common consensus of the morality of taking another life as a matter of punishment of one's deeds. Concludes that there is no consensus and that the true answer to the morality of such a practice lies in a fully developed moral consciousness. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Careless Mining And Timber Harvesting: Kantian Theory
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6 pages in length. Careless mining and timber harvesting in tropical rain forests can destroy entire species of flora and fauna, create soil problems, and even threaten the existence of primitive people who are reliant on what the forests provide. Yet in a number of countries business entrepreneurs are exploiting the rain forests for profit. Kantian theory addresses just such self-seeking behavior, inasmuch as the philosopher believed that such tremendous devastation is not accomplished for the greater good. According to Kantian duty, those who compromise their ethical responsibilities do so in disrespect for the understanding of universal duty. The writer discusses Kantian theory as it relates to careless mining and timber harvesting. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Carl L. Becker's "The Heavenly City Of The Eighteenth-Century Philosophers"
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5 pages in length. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of Carl Becker's (2003) argument pertaining to eighteenth-century philosophers and their misguided understanding of their role in perpetuating medieval philosophies rather than those that reflected modern thought. Main points include examining how philosophes supported the very same beliefs as the Christians they toiled to have discredited for their convictions, providing evidentiary support for the argument's validity by citing numerous instances where this interpretive discrepancy is demonstrated during the Enlightenment, the reinforcement his evidence provides the argument, as well as the influences that guided his line of reasoning. No additional sources cited.
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Cartesian Circle
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A paper which looks at the philosophical problems associated with the Cartesian circle, and some of the ways in which both Descartes and other thinkers attempted to resolve them. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Cartesian Mind/Body Dualism
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A 5 page research paper/essay that examines what two articles say about dualism and Descartes and then offers the writer's personal observations. Dualism maintains that the mind and the body are distinctly separate entities (Calef). The dualism espoused by Rene Descartes expresses this philosophy in its "most radical form" (Palmer 114). First by looking at what author Donald Palmer has to say about dualism in his text Does the Center Hold? (1996) and then comparing this with further comment by Scott Calef of Ohio Wesleyan University, this examination lays the foundation for formulating personal observations on the validity of this philosophical perspective. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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