Comparative Philosophy & Ethics Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (264) essays
Comparative Philosophy & Ethics essays:
Soul, Body, and Augustine's and Machiavelli's Views on Human Nature
... pessimistic views toward human nature, looking at human self-love and self-interested, full of evil, cruelty, betrayal, violence and war. Yet the two views are different fundamentally. Augustine thinks that men are not evil by nature but by their choice of disobedience to God, but Machiavelli ...
A look at how American society muddles through its claim of "morality".
... human rights, and freedom of choice, that a gay man is beaten and left for dead; ironic that a young woman is harangued and even physically assaulted when she attempts to enter an abortion clinic; ironic that our former president--the physical representation of America's idealistic values & morals ...
Nietzsche vs. Christianity
... of a moral code and that there is nothing to live for [1]. Most of the public never agreed with this statement since there are over 2 billion Christians in the world today. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra (page 68), Nietzsche says what happened is not only the death of God but the death of all the Gods ...
Deep Ecology
... of the ethics of deep ecology. The well-being and flourishing of human and nonhuman life on Earth have value in themselves. These values are independent of the usefulness of the nonhuman world for human purposes. Richness and diversity of life forms contribute to the realization of these values and ...
Knowledge is Power
... of a man (Koth), his philosophical work is important footing for modern skepticism. Because of his empiricism views, Bacon would describe fact as having to be proven through the scientific method; all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world ...
Race and Your Community
... of doing things incorrectly and channel this to motivate thyself to improve and break the habit of widening the gap between races. By doing so, it is our conscience, the human nature ...
Ethics in South Africa
... and moral responsibility" (http://en.wikipedia.org). It deals with the character and conduct of man, in so far as it is good or bad, right or wrong. Ethics always approves or disapproves; it sets a value negative or positive, upon conduct. "It reflects on conduct, and pronounces human ...
Decision In Paradise
... of the Island as well as the diversity of different cultures and languages on the Island. People of different cultures do tend to react differently to the presence of foreign volunteers or the presence of LTT. People from different cultures can also have different points of view ...
Analysis of Rosenberg's "Lessons from Biology for Philosophy of the Human Sciences"
... of explaining and predicting human affairs (4). Using the term human sciences Rosenberg embraces all social sciences under one umbrella while creating a term which easily locates his view about how biology allows one to appreciate the attractive and restrictive nature of value-based branches of ...
The Acquisition of Knowledge
... of 'reflection', humans form ideas about cause and effect. By reflecting on incidents that occurred in the past, the individual is able to learn what to do, or what not to do, if the incident occurs again. Locke feels that an innate idea of God ...