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The Mind/Body Problem
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7 pages in length. Descartes' desire to draw attention to and garner acceptance of his all-encompassing body/mind notion originated at the very foundation of knowledge and rose to the top to absolute knowledge with the initial step being that of his groundbreaking concept of other minds thoroughly developed in Discourse on Method and Meditations. Descartes' attempt to define the notion of other minds brought him in direct contact with ideas that postulated the very essence of spiritual and physical being, inasmuch as the philosopher meticulously contemplated the various pathways an individual must travel to inevitably reach the awareness of how minds do, indeed, exist separate from on another. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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The Modern Era:
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This 8 page paper examines the idea of Robert Bellah that enlightenment has served to merely assist in our own destruction. This argument is analyzed from the perspectives of Kant, Al-Afghani, and Condorcet. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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The Modernity of Kant's Moral Philosophy:
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This 11 page paper examines Kant's moral philosophy by placing it in context in terms of modernity and postmodernity. This paper examines what is modern about Kant's philosophy as well as how it can be defended against postmodern critiques. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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The Moral Justification for Arresting the Homeless
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This 10 page paper looks at former Mayor Rudolph Guiliani's efforts to clean up the homeless problem in New York City. Were his efforts morally justified and legally sound? The homeless problem is explored. Several classic theories are used in the analysis. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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THE MORAL LIFE/GOOD AND EVIL
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This 3 page paper discusses the concepts of morality/good and evil as explained by William Golding, Louis Pojman, and Thomas Hobbes. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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The Morality of Nestle's Marketing of Infant Formula
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This 5 page paper evaluates the argument that Nestle is wrong in marketing its formula because in the end, third world babies will suffer. Some evidence that formula distribution ends in the death of third world infants is presented with reliance on a case submitted by a student. Arguments are made from Kantian, Rawlsian and utilitarian perspectives. No bibliography.
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The Morals of Killing: The Theories of Kant and Bentham
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A 5 page analysis of the morals of killing. The author examines the scenario in which one innocent individual is killed in order to save the lives of two other innocent individuals. The philosophies of Kant and Bentham are utilized to explore the rights and wrongs of such an action. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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THE NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE OF PLATO’S DIALOGUES
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This 4 page paper discusses the literary and narrative technique that Plato employs in his work, The Symposium. Examples and quotes cited from the text. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Nature of Being
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This 7 page paper is in two parts, the first part considers the beliefs and thoughts of Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes. The second part moves on to Heraclitus and Parmenides. Both parts of the paper look at the similarities and differences and conclude with which philosophy is, in the writers opinion, the most plausible theory. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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The Nature of Knowledge and Morality: Discussion of Theories of Descartes, Hume, Kant and Nietzsche
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This is a 6 page paper discussing the theories of Descartes, Hume, Kant and Nietzsche. The nature of knowledge and morality within philosophical arguments has taken considerable shifts over the ages. Rationalism and the ideas of Rene Descartes used the ideas of mathematical deduction through innate reasoning but are opposite to those of John Locke and David Hume and empiricism who used instead the concepts of scientific induction and experience. Immanuel Kant combines both theories fairly successfully in regards to man’s knowledge while Friedrich Nietzsche on the other hand, rejects the ideas that man can have any knowledge of himself. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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