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Highlights of the Ethics of Capital Punishment. Analyzed ethically as either beneficial or detrimental to society.

... Press, 2003. Buranelli, Vincent. The Eighth Amendment (The American Heritage: History of the Bill of Rights Series). New Jersey: Silver Burdett ... The Death Penalty: A World-Wide Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Bedau, A. Hugo. The ...

(6 pages) 347 1 4.6 03/Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Analysis of Rosenberg's "Lessons from Biology for Philosophy of the Human Sciences"

... history tends to address past phenomena on biological systems over the past 3.5 - 5 billion years (5). For example, Rosenberg reminds us of the extinction of ...

(4 pages) 1546 0 5.0 09/Dec/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Agnosticism

... the same. Across the world today, there are so many different religions, and many vary greatly in style and content. Many religions have an account of the history of the world ...

(5 pages) 33 0 4.0 09/Mar/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Virtu and Fortune in Machiavelli's The Prince

... of the world and creation, such as reason, divinity and humanity, giving the basis of a moral code. Immorality was a very prevalent and grave issue; images of ...

(10 pages) 4 0 0.0 09/Nov/2012

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

The Pursuit of Knowledge at the Cost of Ethics

... of the world such as the UK; within the UK the photo incited debate and changed many peoples opinions of the Gulf War. This photo led to the changing beliefs of ...

(5 pages) 1 0 0.0 12/Aug/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

The main tenets of both rationalistic and empiricist epistemologies?

... of experience. Empiricists believe that in order to gain knowledge of the world, you must go out and experience the world. Some of the ...

(6 pages) 3 0 0.0 05/Nov/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Aristotle vs. Darwin

... of the history of the earth and because biological functions were continually explained in conjunction with a creator. Theology in the English Protestant Church was documented through 'Natural Theology,' the 'demonstration of the ...

(9 pages) 444 6 4.6 03/Jun/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Morality. Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes and David Hume were all after the truth

... considered one of the greatest skeptics in the history of philosophy. Hume thought that a person can know nothing outside of ... of the time. These three men were after the truth. The truth about life. The truth about how one exists. The truth about the world ...

(2 pages) 163 0 3.5 27/Sep/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Freud and Marx

... The question remains unanswered though, did Freud and Marx simply observe the true reality of the world and state what they saw, or was the world ...

(4 pages) 198 0 4.8 01/Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Ancient and Modern Philosophy.

... history. The ancients can be simply explained by living in a world of fear. Fears of expression of ones own mind; a fear of regressing from the religion of the tyrant; a fear of ...

(2 pages) 54 0 4.3 08/May/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

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