Essays and Research Papers on More Philosophers

A 7 page research paper and analysis that offers a brief survey of various philosophical views on the topic vice. Authors included include, Plutarch, St. Augustine, Abelard, Johnson, and Butler. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 5 page paper provides an overview of Hobbes's theories and critiques his political philosophy that is contingent on his ideas about man. Quotes from Leviathan are provided. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 5 page report discusses the attitudes of David Hume (1711-1776) regarding justice and why justice is an artificial virtue. The foundation of Hume’s thinking on morality is the concept of sympathy, which he views as the basis of interaction between people and the wellspring of human happiness. He then defines morality as the qualities that are approved in whomever ...

5 pages in length. Marxist theories regarding expressivism overflow into social and political theory and philosophy. While expressivism can be considered a freedom that we can all choose to enjoy, that expressivism can overrun its boundaries and turn into something negative, as though it had a life of its own. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

6 pages in length. Careless mining and timber harvesting in tropical rain forests can destroy entire species of flora and fauna, create soil problems, and even threaten the existence of primitive people who are reliant on what the forests provide. Yet in a number of countries business entrepreneurs are exploiting the rain forests for ...

A 5 page paper that, based on Leo XIII's "On the Condition of the Working Class," asks of Leo XIII a question, presents his hypothetical answer, and then presents a reply to that answer. No additional sources cited.

A ten-page paper which considers changing philosophical attitudes towards death from Kant to Derrida, with reference also to the works of Nietzsche, Heidegger and Foucault. The writer comments on changes in philosophical thought from the Judaeo-Christian perspective of Kant to modern deconstructionalism. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 5 page paper looks at Kant's philosophy on Goodness including the 'categorical imperative' and his theory of summum bonum. The paper explains the ideas and the way they may be used in measuring goodness by and duty and that which 'ought' to be done rather than actions and results. The MLA style bibliography cites ...

9 pages in length. The writer discusses how Thomas Malthus challenged economic theories with his classicist philosophies, serving to shed light on the differences that exist between his personal ideology and that of Marxist and Keynesian conjecture. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

5 pages in length. Throughout most of the First Dialogue of Berkeley's "Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous," Hylas' position has two components: (R) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist external to, and independent of the mind; and (D) We immediately perceive ordinary ...

This 5 page paper looks to the ideas of these men and compares and contrasts aspects of these ideas such as faith and despair, selfhood and personal development. The paper cites 2 sources.

(5 pp) An "analogy" according to Mr. Webster, is an inference that if two or more things agree in some respects they will probably agree in others - a likeness between things that are unlike. In this discussion we will determine the analogies that Plato used in the Republic and Rousseau in The ...

(5 pp) Through prolific writings on subjects including optics, philosophy and social theory, the "Hobbsean system" emerges as a coherent and comprehensive world view grounded in the distinct understanding of philosophy as physics. The world according to Hobbes is a world in which all spheres of activity are governed and explained through mechanical principles ...

This 5 page report discusses the philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and his understanding of what constitutes morality and how it cannot be applied to a concept that would be called “political moralist.” In Kant’s opinion, the moral point of view is impartial and favors no particular individual. Morality requires an individual, according to Kant, that he or she act on a ...

This 9 page report discusses the meaning of life as one individual may choose to define it. Relying on the assertions made in Plato’s “Apology” and “Meno,” a review of Marcus Aurelius’s “The Meditations,” Garrett Thomson’s perspectives associated with human freedom in “On Descartes” and Josef Pieper’s assertions in “The Silence of St. Thomas” are used to form the framework ...

This 5 page paper looks at the development of science and philosophy during the nineteenth century. The thesis of the paper is that philosophy and science would converge in the latter part of the nineteenth century to demonstrate that the two are inextricable. Marx and Darwin are discussed in depth. Bibliography lists 3 sources. ...

This 6 page paper considers the philosophical differences and similarities between Kant and Mills. The issue of ethics is discussed by using a hypothetical case where a decision needs to be made and the ways in which the applications of the thoughts of Kant and Mills may determine a different outcome. The bibliography cites 4 ...

This 6 page paper considers the way that Kant and Mills look at issues of ethics and morality. The paper answers seven questions raised by the student. The bibliography cites 4 sources.

This 8 page paper provides a comparative view of Nietzsche's Zarathustra, and considers it when assessed against his other works. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

9 pages in length. One of the fundamental principles of existence is that of ethical relativism, which provides the concepts of how people incorporate ethical occurrences throughout their daily existence. Indeed, the issues behind ethics and morality are critical to defining what meaning truly represents. Of those who have addressed these concepts, Michele ...

This 8 page paper considers the way in which both Ralph Emerson, in his work Self Reliance, and Frederick Douglass, in his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and considers the way in which both individuals present a self-examination of their character traits that specifically cause social rebels to succeed or fail. No ...

This 5 page paper looks at the divisibility thesis and presents views by Locke and Hobbes in its regard. Other philosophers are mentioned in a discussion that embraces both science and political philosophy. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 5 page paper looks at the idea of democracy and the problems that may be seen for the individual from the perspectives of namely Alexis de Tocqueville and Ayn Rand. The ideas of democratic tyranny and the right to life are considered and discussed. The bibliography cites 3 sources.

This 6 page paper presents a speech based on Aristotle's idea of the 'good life'. Bibliography lists 12 sources.

An 11 page paper discussing Rawls' system of justice, which must be based on the least advantaged individual in the society. That one claiming unfairness in justice obviously becomes the least advantaged. That individual then provides the basis for the system of justice no longer being fair, and policy makers are obliged to withdraw once more behind ...