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
... and Machiavelli are similar in their 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 ...
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 ...
Knowledge is Power
... nature, Bacon argued for a total separation of reason from personal interest, social conventions, human passions, etc. This reason versus revelation idea would eventually assist in the expansion of science and furthermore the separation of church and state and religion and morality. Although Bacon ...
Nietzsche vs. Christianity
... of self-cultivation or self-direction [3]. Nietzsche wants to bring back the life on earth as a glorious reality, a reality found in the body and world, not in the illusion of an eternal, perfect being. While the Christian favors the transcendent and ...
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 ...
Ethics in South Africa
... and customs of a person or group. "It covers the Philosophical analysis and employment of concepts such as right and wrong, good and evil, 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 ...
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 ...
Race and Your Community
... of blacks. More often than not, blacks are associated with crime, violence and discord. Another prevalent phenomenon that exists in my community is the just world phenomenon. In a study by Melvin Lerner and colleagues (Lerner & Miller, 1978), it was found that the mere observation of ...
Compare and contrast Parmenides' and Plato's different views of reality. Which theory do you find the most convincing?
... world is merely an imperfect resemblance of an absolute, non-corporeal reality of Ideas, of Forms. In his dialogue entitled ' Parmenides ' we see Socrates claiming: 'In my opinion the Ideas are, as it were, fixed patterns in nature, and other things are like them and resemblances of ...
The Acquisition of Knowledge
... sensory experience as 'sensation' and attributes much of human knowledge to this quality. Reflection, or the "perception of the operations of our own mind," is another way in which the human being obtains ideas (Locke 180). According to Locke's theory, the concept of ...