Philosophy
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Hare’s Indirect Theory
In this paper, I shall demonstrate how Hare's theory of indirect act utilitarianism is able to avoid the most critical difficulty of the direct theory (which I will identify and explain in the following paragraph) and then proceed to argue that although Hare is successful in overcoming the greatest obstacle of the direct theory, his solution inevitably entangles him in some other serious problems. The direct act utilitarian theory requires us to take into consideration
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Hate Speech
This paper will address some of the issues surrounding hate speech and its regulation. I will explain both Andrew Altman and Jonathan Rauch's positions in the first two sections. The third section will be on what Altman might say to Rauch's opposite views. I will then discuss my view that hate speech should never be regulated under any circumstance especially in the name of protecting someone's psychology, feelings, or insecurities like Altman prescribes. In the
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Hate Speech Essay
Hate Speech Essay In the first amendment of the United States constitution, American citizens are guaranteed the right to free speech. This is a fundamental right of American law, and one of the foundations of the U.S. Constitution. It is also the breeding ground for one of the most widely debated issues in America: What, if any, measures should be put into place to regulate hateful language? Most people will agree under one definition or
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Have You Ever Bullied or Been Bullied?
Have you ever bullied or been bullied? If you have bullied or been bullied then you should know how bullying feels like. Bullying is very negative and creates major problems for our society. Nothing good comes out of bullying. It could very well change or ruin a person's life. In fact, it does ruin many people's lives. Kids can be mentally scarred if they are teased often. Even worse, they could be killed or fatally
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Health
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Health Care Ethics
The basic rights of human beings, such as concern for personal dignity, are always of great importance. During illness, however, these rights are extremely vital and must be protected. Therefore, healthcare providers should make an effort to assure that these rights are preserved for their patients. Likewise, health care providers have the right to expect reasonable and responsible behavior on the part of our patients, their relatives, and friends. This is where the patient's bill
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Hedonism
Hedonism 1. Why does Epicurus think that the only thing that is intrinsically valuable is one’s own pleasure? -Epicurus thinks that pleasure directly correlates with one living a well and just life, as he states: “It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living pleasantly.” When one lives with absolute pleasure, they are completely without pain.
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Hegel and the Relation of Master and Servant
Relation of Master and Servant According to Hegel, "the self conscious is itself and for itself" meaning that it has to come outside of itself, so that it can do two things. One is to cancel out the other otherness. The second is to try to become recognized. This recognition process is called Master and Servant self-conscious. The conflict between master and servant is one in which the historical themes such as dependence and independence
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Hegel Love
Hegel's broken manuscript on Love is a great transition to one of his more popular works, The Spirit of Christianity, because he begins speculating the idea of love, and what it means to achieve that love. He attempts to answer many philosophical or otherwise unanswerable questions such as what it means to achieve "true union" and what it takes to maintain that bond. Since this manuscript was probably written "a year or eighteen months before
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Hegel Vs. Kant
I appeal to you, the people of Kazakhstan, to share my vision of the future of our society and the mission of our state. I want to present to you a strategy which I am sure will help us in gaining this future and accomplishing our mission. I wish to share my considerations as to the future which looms far ahead in the next century, in the new millenium, in the pretty remote perspective. Time
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Hello Existentialism and Phenomenology
Meditation I Descartes begins the first meditation by noting the the large number of false beliefs which he had adopted in his childhood. It is necessary to start over entirely, he realizes, if he wants to establish anything in the sciences which is firm and likely to last. In order to do this, he will suspend judgment about any of his beliefs which are in any way uncertain. To inspect each belief separately would take
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Heloise and Abelard 1st Letter
To her master, nay father, to her husband, nay brother; his handmaid, nay daughter, his spouse, nay sister: to ABELARD, HELOISE. Your letter written to a friend for his comfort, beloved, was lately brought to me by chance. Seeing at once from the title that it was yours, I began the more ardently to read it in that the writer was so dear to me, that I might at least be refreshed by his words
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Help
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Henry David Thoreau
He spent his life in voluntary poverty, enthralled by the study of nature. Two years, in the prime of his life, were spent living in a shack in the woods near a pond. Who would choose a life like this? Henry David Thoreau did, and he enjoyed it. Who was Henry David Thoreau, what did he do, and what did others think of his work? Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts on July
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Heraclitus
Heraclitus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is probably the most significant philosopher of ancient Greek until Socrates and Plato; this is probably because he postulated a model of nature and the universe which created the foundation for all other speculation concerning physics and metaphysics. Heraclitus, according to early biographers, was melancholic and cryptic that earned him the nicknames such as "The Weeping Philosopher" and the "The Riddler". Every time we walk into a science,
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Heraclitus - Permanent Flux
Permanent Flux It is said that every great journey begins with one step. This is not true. A more accurate saying would be, "every great journey begins with the idea of the journey", thus leading to the idea of the step, and so on. The steps will surly follow an idea, but nevertheless the ideas will always precede any action. Once one gets an idea in one's head, one must either forget it, or act
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Herclitus’ View of Reality
“All things come out of the One and the One out of all things. ... I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which
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Here and Now
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Here It Is, but There It Goes.
Here it is, but then you see it pass, and there it falls and goes down and down and down. Here it is, but then you see it pass, and there it falls and goes down and down and down. Here it is, but then you see it pass, and there it falls and goes down and down and down. Here it is, but then you see it pass, and there it falls and goes
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Hermeneutics: The Philosophy of Interpretation
HERMENEUTICS: THE PHILOSOPHY OF INTERPRETATION Hermeneuein –to interpret HERMENEUTICS Hermeneia – interpretation * A theory, methodology and praxis of interpretation that is geared towards the recapturing of meaning of a text or a text-analogue, that is temporally or culturally distant or obscured by ideology and false consciousness * Presupposes * Text and text analogues that are distant in time and culture , or that are blanketed by ideology and false consciousness need to be systematically
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Hermes - Messager God
Hermes - Messager god Essay written by Jamecca The idea of gods and goddesses began as far back as the ancient Egyptians, but the ancient Greeks were the first group to form a religion based on gods and goddesses. They believed that the gods and goddesses were not different from humans. Some of the few ways humans were different from gods were that the gods were stronger and lived forever. Since the Greeks believe in
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Heroes and Leaders
A leader is a person who comes forward in a time of crisis and guides people to a prosperous future. All leaders have many of the same characteristics. Leaders can exist on a small scale, a leader of a group of friends, or they can exist on a much larger scale, the President of the United States. A leader has to be unafraid to stand up for himself and his fellow people. Having the ability
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Higher Immediacy Contrasted with Ethical and Aesthetic
Question: Explain higher immediacy by contrasting it with the ethical and the aesthetic. Higher immediacy or religious faith is the most important achievement made by a person because only faith offers an individual to have a chance to become a "true self". Self is what is done throughout life which God judges for infinity. Consequently, humans have a huge responsibility because those decided choices in life constitute the eternal salvation or damnation. With the religious
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Hilosophical Essays Represent Your Chance to Do Philosophy in Its Purest Form
hilosophical essays represent your chance to DO philosophy in its purest form. All too often we'll be working so hard just to understand what other philosophers have said that we won't have as much time to construct our own thought and arguments about the questions we'll consider. The papers are the exception to this rule, because in those papers, you will be encouraged to not only tell me what philosopher X said about issue S,
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Hindu
In India there are six orthodox schools of philosophy which recognize the authority of the Vedas as divine revelation, and they generally function as pairs - Nyaya and Vaishesika, Mimamsa and Vedanta, and Samkhya and Yoga. Those who did not recognize this authority were the Jains, Buddhists, and materialists. Even in India where spiritual ideas dominate the culture there were some who were skeptical of those ideals and held to a materialist view of the
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Hindu Philosophy
INTRODUCTION Hindu philosophy is one of the main divisions of the Indian philosophy, and forms an integral part of Indian culture. Hindu philosophy is difficult to narrow down to a definite doctrine because Hinduism itself, as a religion, resists identification with any well worked out doctrine. However, it is traditionally seen through the prism of six different systems (called darshanas in Sanskrit) that are listed here and make up the main belief systems of Hinduism.
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Hinduism
Hinduism hinduism The term Hinduism refers to the civilization of the Hindus (originally, the inhabitants of the land of the Indus River). Introduced in about 1830 by British writers, it properly denotes the Indian civilization of approximately the last 2,000 years, which evolved from Vedism the religion of the Indo-European peoples who settled in India in the last centuries of the 2nd millennium BC. The spectrum that ranges from the level of popular Hindu belief
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Hinduism
The underlying concern of the Upanishads is the nature of Brahman, the universal soul; and the fundamental doctrine expounded is the identity of atman, or the innermost soul of each individual, with Brahman. Formulations of this doctrinal truth are stressed throughout the Upanishadic writings The Upanishads are the most important portion of the Vedas. The Upanishads contain the essence or the knowledge portion of the Vedas. The philosophy of the Upanishads is sublime, profound, lofty
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Hispanic American Diversity
Introduction Hispanic or Latino Americans are a group of people made up of distinct characteristics. They are a group that is linked to a heritage of common language. Hispanics or Latinos are defined by the federal government "as a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race" (United States Census, 2000). The Hispanic population rose "from 22.4 million in 1990 to 35.3 million in
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Historic Culture of China and Vietnam
In the historic culture of China and Vietnam, teachers play an importance role in their society. There's a Chinese/Vietnamese saying that says, "quan, su, phu" which translate to "king, teacher, and parents." This is the philosophy and practice of order to pay respect to in the Chinese/Vietnamese society. Kings are to be most respected, because kings are believed to be appointed by God to rule; parents is in one of the top three to be
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