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Taoism and Western Understanding
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This 3 page paper discusses Taoist beliefs and how the difference between those tenets and western thinking are relevant today. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Teaching Morals in Public School -- The Perspective of Immanuel Kant
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This 5 page report discusses Immanuel Kant’s philosophy in the context of teaching morals through the public education system. The basic foundation of Kant’s critical philosophy is in his reasoning that is based on his examination of human knowledge and forms the basis for an individual theory of the limits of that knowledge. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Teleological and Mechanistic World Views
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A 5 page paper which discusses the teleological and mechanistic world views and discusses how the define, or involve, God and/or purpose in life. They are discussed briefly as they involve ontological arguments, and then presented in relationship to how three separate philosophers fit in to one particular view or another. The philosophers are Frankl, Descartes, and Nietzsche. The works discussed are, respectively, "Man's Search for Meaning," "Meditations," and "The Antichrist." No additional sources cited.
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Tell Or Keep Quiet?
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A 5 page paper assessing this scenario: A friend’s daughter is gay; she is staying in her mother’s house and has a friend staying there with her. Her mother does not know that the two women are sleeping together in her home. The paper discusses the philosophies of Kant and Mill as well as ethics of care to arrive at the conclusion that the would-be informer should not share the information with the mother. If the mother truly is unaware of the situation, she will know soon enough. If she knows already but refuses to acknowledge the situation, proclamation of it by a friend disallows her choice to “tune out” reality. At best, the informer’s information will not be new. At worst, the woman could adopt a “shoot the messenger” stance and the friendship could be compromised at a time that the woman may need a friend most. The would-be informer needs to remain silent. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Terrorism
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This 5-page paper discusses terrorism from a philosophical perspective and argues that it is possible to hold two almost directly contradictory positions at the same time: we can understand the motives of the terrorists and still condemn their actions. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Terrorism: The Applicability of Marx’s Conflict Theory
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A 5 page investigation of the social causes of terrorism. This paper investigates terrorism from a group fractionation standpoint. The author outlines Marx’s theory of conflict in comparison with the structural functionalist approach first founded by Radcliff-Brown and Evans-Pritchard and Max Weber’s multidimensional model of societal stratification. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The “Ethics” of Marketing Landmines
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This 7 page report discusses a scenario in which a marketing campaign is being planned for the newest and best of all landmines. Normative theories of utilitarianism and nonconsequentialism as presented by the thinking of Immanuel Kant are considered in the scenario. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The “Poetry” of Freud and Nietzsche
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This 6 page report discusses Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche and refers to how each used vast amounts of poetic imagery, analogies, and metaphor in their writing. Each captured the essence of what they had to say in a poetic framework that carried a certain amount of lyricism although both are likely to have denied such a thing. Nietzsche’s “Birth of Tragedy” (1872) was (and is) an example of classical intellectualism while Freud’s “Civilizations and its Discontents” (1930) presented the world with the idea that humanity and the collective thinking of human beings is of far greater impact than the behavior of human beings as separate individuals. Both works serve to illustrate that Freud and Nietzsche were examples of para-rational poets. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The “Pre-Socratic” Philosophers of Greece
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This 5 page report discusses pre-Socratic philosophy which was born in the Greek cities of Ionia at the end of the 7th century BCE. The establishment of the Ionian school in Miletos should be considered as the actual point of departure for pre-Socratic thinking. The pre-Socratic philosophers were able to weave reason and intuition into their search for truth in a remarkably erudite and articulate manner. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The “Social Contract” in the View of Locke and Rousseau
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This 5 page report discusses the meaning of the “social contract” in terms of the thinking of John Locke (1632-1704) and Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Each had very definite views on what he perceived to be the true “social contract” among human beings. This paper very briefly outlines each. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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