Philosophy
After studying some philosophical works on our website, you'll be able to write coursework on any topic with ease.
2,286 Essays on Philosophy. Documents 781 - 810
-
Frued Theory Without Science
Theory Without Science Sigmund Freud, the father of Psychoanalysis, began his new and far reaching psychological theory during the spring of 1896 which expanded to many different arenas not yet explored by other theorists of his time. Much of Freud's work revolved around the unconscious mind, sexual inhibitions, and an abstract theory on the interpretation of dreams. Some of his study was grounded when Europe erupted into war and his three sons were fighting for
Rating:Essay Length: 258 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: December 14, 2009 -
Fulfilling Your Dreams: The Magic of Starting
Fulfilling your dreams will remain a mirage if you simply sit down and dream on. You may have a dream of attaining financial freedom to go after your dreams, instead of doing what you have to do, to get bills paid and put food on the table. You think about it, dream about it, analyze it, attend seminars on it, read books on it, and work out a plan to achieve it and all the
Rating:Essay Length: 494 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: February 15, 2010 -
Fulfillment
Fulfillment is Gained Through Philosophical Thought The ability to think philosophical is the ability to truly understand and know ones surroundings and everything that influences those surroundings to the degree that that knowledge becomes the ultimate understanding and appreciation of the surroundings without question. With this ultimate understanding, a philosopher is able to appreciate life and live life to a fuller degree than the average person. Unfortunately, becoming a philosopher or even recognizing a philosopher
Rating:Essay Length: 1,207 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: November 10, 2009 -
Functional Philosophic Statement
Functional Philosophic Statement The profession of sport management has to defend its purpose on the daily basis. It is critical that individuals practicing this profession develop a philosophy in order to provide society, and customers with an understanding of its purpose and the direction where sport management is going. Situations will constantly present themselves that will challenge integrity, responsibility, and management skills of sport managers. Therefore, sport managers need to define their identities and prove
Rating:Essay Length: 633 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: December 19, 2009 -
Functionalism
Functionalism agrees that brain states are responsible for mental states, but disagrees that they are identical with them. To do this, functionalists argue that neurological states or brain activity help to realize mental states, which then lead to behavior. This argument proposes that brain states are "low level" activities that help realize "high level" mental states. To help understand this idea I will use the usual Functionalist example of a computer. Imagine that you ask
Rating:Essay Length: 842 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: March 29, 2010 -
G.E. Moore’s Theory of the Nature of Ethics
Question 2: G.E. Moore’s Theory of the Nature of Ethics In “The Subject Matter of Ethics” Moore explains his theory of meta-ethics. Meta-ethics is a branch of analytic philosophy that focuses and analyzes the foundation and standing of morality. Simply put, it categorizes what is considered “good” and “bad”. Moore defines ethics as, fundamentally a set of moral values that are catered to a specific set/group of people. He believes that the business of ethics
Rating:Essay Length: 2,208 Words / 9 PagesSubmitted: January 23, 2017 -
Galileo’s Sentencing to Prison
Galileo Galilei was born in 1564 in Pisa, Italy. At a young age his family moved to Florence where he grew up. At about the age of 33, Galileo begins to believe in the Copernican or heliocentric model of the universe as opposed to the Ptolemaic or geocentric model. Galileo then used magnifying glasses to create telescopes to see the stars better. He realizes that the Copernican model offers better explanations for what he discovered
Rating:Essay Length: 1,179 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: June 9, 2010 -
Garner President
second Vice President of the United States. Garner was born near Detroit, Red River County, Texas. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1890, and began practice in Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas. He was a judge of Uvalde County from 1893 to 1896 and a member of the state House of Representatives from 1898 to 1902. Garner was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1902 from a
Rating:Essay Length: 571 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: March 19, 2010 -
Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics
Garrett Hardin argues for a very harsh thesis: we simply should not provide aid to people in poor countries. His argument is consequentialist: he claims that the net result of doing so would be negative -- would in fact be courting large-scale disaster. One of the things that we will notice about Hardin's essay, however, is that whether he is right or wrong, he paints with a very broad brush. This makes it a good
Rating:Essay Length: 1,275 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: December 16, 2009 -
Gay Marriage
Gay Marriage There seem to be Specific time in history where certain issues define the culture tension in a society. They become representative of large worldview and clearly emphasize the battle between divergent moral and spiritual perspectives. Homosexual marriage in the United States is one of these issues. In the past five years, there have been various threats and debates about the possibility of legalizing homosexual union. The issue took centre stage in February largely.
Rating:Essay Length: 1,417 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: November 18, 2009 -
Gay Marriage
The idea of gay marriage is what I would call a recent phenomenon. I say recent because it has only been in the past few years that activists in the country have become extremely vocal about legalizing gay marriage. What got the ball rolling was the first legally gay marriage in the United States which was performed in San Francisco in 2004 between Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon who are gay rights activists. After this
Rating:Essay Length: 1,503 Words / 7 PagesSubmitted: January 5, 2010 -
Gay Marriage: With Liberty and Justice for All?
Gay Marriage: With Liberty and Justice for All? At a time where a procedural republic is present, gay marriage is an issue that does not satisfy the ideal of liberty as self-choosing and unencumbered. However, this concern has become one of the most controversial subjects today because it violates the first amendment, which is the right of the people to peaceably assemble. How are homosexuals supposed to assemble for their cause if they are threatened
Rating:Essay Length: 919 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: December 14, 2009 -
Gay Marriages
Identify the specific issue The reasoning against gay marriages does not make sense. Legalizing gay marriages is the only logical choice when considering this issue. Homosexuals have nontraditional partners, but that does not mean that they love one another any less than heterosexual couples do. The widespread failure and dissolution of marriages appears to give rise to a paradox in the dispute about same-sex marriage: why would anybody want to be included in the practice
Rating:Essay Length: 356 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: February 20, 2012 -
Gemienschaft or Gesllschaft
Most individuals go to work everyday and hate the jobs they are doing. Throughout this sort essay it will become apparent as to why many people have felt and do feel that way. This essay will examine Marx's and Engles idea of private property, Marx's idea of alienated labor by looking at four sources of estranged labor, the social and personal consequences that result from alienated labor, and George Ritzer's article, McJobs: McDonaldization and the
Rating:Essay Length: 615 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: February 26, 2010 -
Gender and Sexuality
Physical, mental and stereotypical aspects all contribute to construct what we as humans see as Gender. Gender denotes our identity sexually. Mentally we are Sexual and biologically we are sexual. Sexuality is the way we perceive gender in the world. Sexuality in the human way is the way we control ourselves according to our Gender. Gender is the biological and Perceptional side of the human. Sexuality is the way we use our Gender. When we
Rating:Essay Length: 253 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: December 10, 2009 -
Gender Roles
Even within a culture masculinity and femininity may be defined differently by various groups, in particular according to ethnicity, age, social class and sexuality. In this sense there is no single masculinity or femininity, but rather multiple masculinities and femininities. Not all men are 'leaderlike', 'aggressive', 'assertive', 'independent', 'risk-taking' and so on; and not all women are 'affectionate', 'gentle', 'sympathetic', 'dependent', 'emotional', 'nurturing' etc. Such qualities are found in varying degrees in most people. But
Rating:Essay Length: 554 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: January 10, 2010 -
Gender Women Studies Journals
In John D'Emilio's "Captilism and Gay Identity" argues that gays have not always existed and is a product of history. I do not believe this because even if the identity of homosexuality did not exist the acts of it definitely did. Homosexuality is a product of both biological and environmental factors but it can be weighted towards one factor then the other. For example in the movie "Alexander" it was encouraged for men to sleep
Rating:Essay Length: 264 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: May 12, 2010 -
Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche
According to Nietzsche in this section, the good life consists of power and overcoming obstacles. The bad life comes from weakness. Nietzsche says that humans desire power and that anything proceeding from weakness is bad. Happiness comes from an increase in power and the weak are destroyed. He believes that providing sympathy to those who display immoral conduct is worse than immoral acts by themselves. This is what he sees Christianity as and is greatly
Rating:Essay Length: 619 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: December 8, 2009 -
Generosity and Miserliness
Machiavelli writes in The Qualities of the Prince, that it is better to be a miser and slightly disliked for a while than to be generous and be liked for a while than hated. If you're a generous prince you can only be so for a short time before having to raise taxes and having people realize that you're not that generous in all reality. Once a prince gets a reputation for being hated he
Rating:Essay Length: 256 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: November 23, 2009 -
Genesis to Revelation
Relationships are what the Bible is all about from Genesis to Revelation. The Bible tells us we need to have a relationship with God and each other. What are the relationship what are the types of relationship? There love, there hate, there jealous, there a lot of type. Another answer Those are really emotions in the above answer. Types of relationships are; mother daughter relationships, friend to friend... There love, there hate, there jealous, there
Rating:Essay Length: 4,057 Words / 17 PagesSubmitted: February 11, 2011 -
Genetic Engineering - Genetic Modification
INTRODUCTION Genetic engineering (GE) or genetic modification (GM) are both terms used to describe methods " to cut up and join together genetic material and especially DNA from one or more species of organism and to introduce the result into an organism in order to change one or more of its characteristics". Genetic technologies in crops involve the use of GE to change the make-up of certain plants in order to improve their quality or
Rating:Essay Length: 542 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: November 29, 2009 -
George Grant: Technology, Liberalism and Nietzsche
George Parkin Grant is one of the most perspicacious thinkers Canada has ever produced. Grant’s language is prima facie deceptively simple if compared with thinkers like Harold Innis or Marshall McLuhan. As I began to delve further, however, I discovered that beneath the almost poetic simplicity lay an elaborate, deeply profound system of thought, a multivalent commentary on the western experience. I should add at this point that much of the criticism of Grant, directed
Rating:Essay Length: 1,039 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: November 11, 2009 -
German Pharmacologist - Louis Lewin
It was in 1886 that the German pharmacologist, Louis Lewin, published the first systematic study of the cactus, to which his own name was subsequently given. Anhalonium lewinii was new to science. To primitive religion and the Indians of Mexico and the American Southwest it was a friend of immemorially long standing. Indeed, it was much more than a friend. In the words of one of the early Spanish visitors to the New World, "they
Rating:Essay Length: 10,880 Words / 44 PagesSubmitted: December 2, 2009 -
Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh Gilgamesh was an historical king of Uruk in Babylonia, on the River Euphrates in modern Iraq; he lived about 2700 B.C. Although historians (and your textbook) tend to emphasize Hammurabi and his code of law, the civilizations of the Tigris-Euphrates area, among the first civilizations, focus rather on Gilgamesh and the legends accruing around him to explain, as it were, themselves. Many stories and myths were written about Gilgamesh, some of which were written
Rating:Essay Length: 5,697 Words / 23 PagesSubmitted: December 27, 2009 -
Girl Problems
I have a problem. My problem happens to be two brown-eyed girls, and their lack of interest in me. In high school, I met a girl. She had brown hair, brown eyes, was roughly five foot seven inches tall, and was extremely gorgeous. Before she destroyed my confidence, I thought I actually stood a chance of having a relationship with her. After leading me on for about a year, she finally got the nerve to
Rating:Essay Length: 339 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: February 24, 2010 -
Glaucon’s Speech
In book II of The Republic of Plato Glaucon says that he will "restore Thrasymachus' argument" (line 358c) that proves injustice is better than justice. He first talks about how justice came about. Then makes a second point that people practice justice without their own will and he ends with his third point that the unjust man's life is better then the just man's life. Glaucon backs up all of his points with examples of
Rating:Essay Length: 1,470 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: February 10, 2010 -
Global Warming’s Ethical Dilemma
Global Warming and it's Ethical Dilemma Global warming is a growing threat of apocalyptic consequences. Over the past two decades our climate has undeniably grown warmer and is not predicted to slow this unprecedented rate of change unless action is taken. Unfortunately, the heat has damaged the crops of developing agricultural countries that cannot afford the setbacks that Americans embrace. If the projected population of our planet is to reach nine billion by the end
Rating:Essay Length: 902 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: April 15, 2010 -
Globalization and Globalization Is the Reason for Trade
Trade is the reason for GLOBALIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION IS the REASON FOR TRADE WHAT IS TRADE Trade can be termed as a means of exchange of goods and services. According to the Oxford dictionary it is:"the activity of buying and selling or exchanging of goods and services between people and companies." For trade to exist there has to be a buyer and a seller, or rather an entrepreneur and a market. An entrepreneur is the
Rating:Essay Length: 679 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: December 20, 2009 -
God and Philosophy
God and Philosophy There are many traditional views on religion and the existence of God. Some people believe there is a God and some do not, some think there is one God and some think there are many. There are also others who do not believe in God but a higher power that created us and the universe and everything in it. They cannot explain why or how but for some it's just a feeling
Rating:Essay Length: 1,362 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: November 18, 2009 -
God and Philosophy
God and Philosophy Many philosophers will say that God plays an important role in a person's mental being. Others will argue that he doesn't and that we decide by our own mentality. The three thinkers that will be discussed in this paper made a large impact in the philosophical world with their theories and reasons. Descartes, Kant, and Hume are all important players in the world of philosophy, but according to other philosophers, so is
Rating:Essay Length: 433 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: April 26, 2010