Comparative Philosophy & Ethics Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (264) essays
Comparative Philosophy & Ethics essays:
Comparative: Smith and Marx's to Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky's view of god and religion.
... absolute devotion to faith. However, the works of Smith, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky prove that argument to be ridiculous. There is no "in between" stance; only one or the other. Though Smith and Marx differ greatly in their socioeconomic theories, they are similar in the fact that they ...
Ancient and Modern Philosophy.
... Egyptians, Persians, and the Mesopotamians lack freedom of thought as the Greeks once did. The world in which we live in has surprising similarities to the way of life brought forth by the Greeks . Characteristics of both the moderns and the ancients are pertinent to our understanding of ...
Liberty, Equality, and Justice.
... Sir Isaiah Berlin portrays his point of view of liberty, equality, and justice. He stated that a society can not have both absolute equality and liberty working together side by side. Meaning, that both of these are opposite of each other due to the nature of their laws. Achieving maximum liberty ...
Does God determine Morality?
... of God. Then they assume that God revealed absolute morality to mankind. Therefore, people must rely on the Bible to know what is moral and immoral. They imagine life without the Bible as a moral chaos resembling that of ancient Israel before the time of its kings. Yet another assumption is that man ...
Philosophical Comparison Darwin & Bergson
... that was not rejected out of hand. This had more to do with the fact that in 1859 the social climate was now open to new concepts, thanks in part, to such forerunners as French Evolutionist Jean-Baptist de Lamack and ...
PLATO, SOCRATES, ONG AND MACLUHAN
... and addresses the fact that he continues to say the same thing in different ways. Yes, I would agree with Socrates critique because I think that all the things he mentioned were in fact true and concise. The primary purpose of ...
The Ethics of War
... they should invade Iraq and remove Sadaam Hussein from power. The justification for this or simply why they went to war has become one of the major ethical and political issues of the early twenty-first century. The United States and Britain primarily have been highlighting that ...
Ethics and Philosophy.
... morals. To be moral one must be just, temperate, and have reason; the four Cardinal Virtues . It is safe to say that Socrates believed that ethics and philosophy go hand in hand. Socrates searched for justice and morals; he was the founder of Moral Philosophy. He questioned equality and justice and ...
"Our Technologies Establish the Truth of many of our Scienttific Laws." Is there any Comparable means of Establishing Moral Rules and Norms?
... of our ideas of what is right and wrong (i.e. our moral duties) are instinctive and are part of human nature (perhaps most notably C.S. Lewis in The Abolition of Man: "The preservation of society, and of the species itself, are ends that do not hang on the precarious thread of Reason: they ...
A Critical Analysis: "Aristotle's Dilemma". Aristotle's Dilemma written by A. F. Mackay.
... and critique the major points of his argument. Right off the bat, Mackay attacks the Fast Argument. In this argument, Aristotle attempts to make the point that Platos Form of the Good is not the chief good based upon the fact that ...