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Cartesian Mind/Body Interactionism And Spinoza's Dual-Aspect Monism: Compare/Contrast
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20 pages in length. The very nature of perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception required within the sensual world is decidedly unique to human beings. According to Cartesian thought, man looks upon his world as a direct reflection of him, his values, beliefs, experiences, conditions and development; contrarily, Spinoza asserts that humanity may also perceive the world "cleanly and directly, seeing things for what they are in moments of illuminating vision" (Anonymous #2, 2002). Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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Case Study Analysis in Virtue Ethics
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This 8 page paper relies on a case study entitled The American Girl Hostage by Robert Ladenson. The case is used along with Aristotle's ideas to reach an ethical conclusion. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Causal Necessitation and Rational Freedom: Aristotle
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A 5 page paper which discusses fate and moral responsibility as they relate to causal necessitation. The works utilized for this examination are Aristotle's "Physics 2" and "Parts of Animals." The paper then addresses how rational freedom fits in with the notion of causal necessitation. Bibliography lists 5 additional sources.
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Causal Theory of Action
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This 12 page report discusses causal theory of action and the fact that it is in and of itself an example of the ways in which causal realism describes a direct perception of causality rather than a perception based an actual innate ability or a learned response. The psychological aspect of the causal theory suggests that perception can be separated into mental and physical parts, which are then related as cause and effect. Unlike the theories associated with behaviorism, causal theorism presents the idea that mental states are real inner states that cause human behavior. In other words, behaving in certain ways is not all that there is to thinking or the processes of intelligence. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Causes, Effects, Impressions and Ideas According to David Hume
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This 4 page paper examines David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. The focus is on the idea of cause and effect which is explored in depth. No additional sources cited.
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CENTRALITY OF THE COMMON GOOD VERSUS POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
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This 5 page paper discusses the ideas of Rousseau and his work, The Social Contract. In particular the idea of representation, factionalism, popular sovereignty, common good, individualism, and the collective. Quotes given from the text and cited.Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Cephalus' Justice
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In The Republic, Socrates becomes involved in a dialogue with Cephalus concerning justice. This 5 page paper explores the meaning of justice for both Cephalus and Glaucon, the purpose of Socrates' questioning of Cephalus and the meaning of justice within the parameters of the state. No additional sources are listed.
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Chapter 2 of Thoreau’s Walden
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A 3 page paper which examines and analyzes Chapter 2 in Thoreau’s “Walden.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Chapter IV in “Utilitarianism” by John Stuart Mill
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This is a 5 page paper discussing the argument presented by Mill in Chapter 4 of “Utilitarianism” (1863). John Stuart Mill was raised on the utilitarian principles indoctrinated by his father James which are based largely on people’s actions are the result of their desire for ultimate happiness and all actions are elements of this happiness or a means to attain it. In Mill’s Chapter IV of “Utilitarianism” (1863), he attempts to prove this system of utility based on the principle of desire for ultimate happiness. To do this, he uses an indirect method of proof and in accepting his argument the reader must accept the basis of utilitarianism in order to extrapolate his principle to include the elements of will and virtue; elements many philosophers believe are not conscious acts of desire but remain unconscious in their design. Mill believes that will and virtue along with other elements such as money, power and fame are all originally based on the desire for general happiness and are therefore included. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Character Analysis of Hermann Hesse's "Siddhartha" and Meursault in Albert Camus' "The Stranger"
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A 6 page paper which provides a detailed character analysis, in terms of Sophist, Cynic, Cyreniac, Epicurean and Stoic philosophies, considers why each character exemplifies that there is no moral truth to be attained beyond the level of opinion, the type of knowledge each character has acquired, describes what sort of happiness they attain, in terms of Aristotle's theory of the human psyche and doctrine on individual happiness, citing particular events to support these character judgments. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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