Comparative Philosophy & Ethics Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (264) essays
Comparative Philosophy & Ethics essays:
A response to Francis Schaeffer' book "Back to Freedom and Dignity" This essay discusses Schaeffer's christian view on B.F. Skinner
... Monod argued that mans existence was due to chance and unpredictable mutations and necessity. Schaeffer argues, "if a man lives in such a universe how shall he decide to live?" (p.12). The next Topic discussed is a speech made by Dr. Francis Crick ...
Ethics: Argues points made by Prof. Raymond Angelo Belliotti's essay Sexual Intercourse Between Consenting Adults Is Always Permissible
... sexual ethics. The essay is called Sexual Intercourse Between Consenting Adults Is Always Permissible, and is written by Raymond Angelo Belliotti. Belliotti is a professor of philosophy at SUNY Fredonia, and has written many works on moral philosophy. In Belliotti's view any sexual ...
Morality
... moral philosophy is so important, and how it has helped me in my life, let me give you a little background knowledge. Rational knowledge has two components. These components are material and formal. Formal knowledge is not object oriented, and is based on reason. Formal knowledge is logic ...
Medical ethics. Refers to A.J Ayres criteria
... morally relevant strands of a complex situation are based out.'(Clouser pp 385) The advice of the expert, the medical doctor, and the ethicists have a synergistic effect on the moral agent; they allow the agent to make a desision.that is informed and ethical. The medical ethicists ...
Are people really ethical???
... Immanuel Kant ... human beings try very hard everyday to live by a moral set of standards that we have set for ourselves. This code of ethics ...
Greed is Good.
... they have. If not driven by greed for knowledge, how can famous scientists like Einstein and ... broke out, the company went bust and the life savings and retirement funds of tens of thousands ... living standards that drove them to invent useful tools like rafts and spears. With boats, men travelled ...
Marx and Freud, comparing their views of human nature
... human nature and the effect that the economic system and economic factors have on it. Marx and Engels discuss human nature in the context of the economic factors which they see as driving history. Freud, in Civilization and Its Discontents, explores human ... object ...
Five factor model of personality. Refers to theories of Allport and Oddbert, McAdams, Eyesenck, Mischel, Block, Both Costa and McCrae, Goldberg and Saucier
... factor analysed and 12 personality factors were found. However, 4 additional factors were found by analysing self-ratings. Cattell concluded that, in the adult human, 16 personality factors were dominant. Eyesenck, (1953, cited in Atkinson et al, 1993) was another major theorist to use factor ...
The Argument from Design, and the Problem of Evil
... knowledge or 'instinct' to weave their honeycomb with such accuracy. William Paley presents his own interpretation of this argument in Feinberg and Shafer-Landau. He imagines walking across a heath, and on his journey coming across a stone. It would be rational ... humans to be judged in an after-life ...
Aristotle vs. Darwin
... knowledge, based on testable, working hypotheses. The theory of evolution was not formed by Darwin. Ideas of man progressing from smaller life existed even in Ancient Greece. Empedocles' evolution theory involved 'the coming together of limbs,' while Xenophanes thought that humans ... rationalize ...