19 The Philos Essays, Term Papers and Book Reports
Andy Warhol Bio
Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh. His mother was Julia Warhol and his father was Andrej Warhol. He was the youngest of the three sons. His original name was Andrew Warhola. His father worked as a construction worker, he unfortanetly died when Andy was only 13 years old, and his mother drew....
Animal Rights
For Bettor or For Food
In todays society there is an outstanding issue that has yet to receive the necessary attention it deserves: animals place in the typical American diet. All over the world, different groups of individuals take different stands on this issue ranging from extreme forms of ....
Defining Philosophy
Philosophy is the love of knowledge; invented by the Greeks, anyone who seeks knowledge in any field is considered a philosopher (Moore & Bruder, 2005). Philosophy is the use of wisdom in recognizing such things as the nature of reality, the benefits and boundaries of knowledge and the philoso....
Descartes: True belief and Knowledge
Descartes: True belief and Knowledge
Descartes overall objective in the Meditations was to develop a system of true belief and knowledge. He starts with the assumption that the senses were false and anything interpreted by them was also false. This one statement disbands all the knowledge that we h....
Dystopia is merely a utopia from another point of view? - Brave New World
Dystopia is merely a utopia from a different point of view. Discuss this statement in relation to two pertinent literary or filmic examples.
The following essay proposes to consider the concepts of dystopia and utopia, analysing the ways in which they can be deemed to constitute the same phenomen....
epistomology
An Inquiry of Humankinds Ultimate Source of Knowledge Classical Philosophical Questions by James A. Gould and Robert J.
Mulvaney comprehensively presents timeless arguments of various renowned philosophers. In "An Inquiry of Humankinds Ultimate Source of Knowledge", the arguments classifi....
euthenasia
Euthanasia:
Humane and Dignified
Advances in modern medical technology have served to deny people the right to die, and euthanasia, it may be argued, has emerged with the purpose of reclaiming that right. Euthanasia, which is defined as granting painless death to a hopelessly ill patient ....
Harry potter and the philosophers stone
Harry Potter and the philosophers stone emphasizes the virtue of humility by showing the extraordinary modesty of its hero and by making this modesty an important part of Harrys success in obtaining the philosophers Stone.
Harrys humility is no doubt ingrained in him during his ten mise....
Philosophy of Economics
Philosophy of Economics
The philosophy of economics concerns itself with conceptual, methodological, and
ethical issues that arise within the scientific discipline of economics.1 The primary focus is on issues of methodology and epistemologythe methods, concepts, and theories through which econo....
Philosophy of Visual Disability
Preamble:
The greatest expression of the ultimate timeless civilisation of mankind, is the embodiment of unfeigned, absolute, active altruistic reverence for the universal equality, dignity and sanctity of humanity; the inability to perceive the declivity from behind an acclivity, or rat....
Plato
Plato
David Rothman
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. The aspect of Plato's thought is the theory of "ideas" or "forms." Plato was stymied by the question of change in the physical world. Heraclitus had said that there is nothing....
The Industrial Revolution
Over the years, the Industrial Revolution has attracted an endless number of interpretations and viewpoints, making it difficult to classify this event as either bad or good. In the midst of these heated debates, historians have come to evaluate the accuracy of the name, Industrial Revolution, argui....
The Lennard Clinic
The Lennard Clinic, Incorporated¡Agency Visit
On Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Ms. Fatima Oliveira, MA, CCJS, CCBT (Director of AIDS services) of the Lennard Clinic was interviewed at 2:00pm. This Lennard Clinic is based at 461 Frelinghuysen Avenue, Newark, New Jersey 07114. The telephone number....
The Philosophy of Karl Marx
Communism, it is a word that many people know well, some people love it while other people hate it; a brief description of communism would be that it is a system that promotes economic equality amongst every person in society so that there isnt any rich or poor people. However, the system is incr....
The Philosophy of Visual Disability
The greatest expression of the ultimate timeless civilisation of mankind, is the embodiment of unfeigned, absolute, active altruistic reverence for the universal equality, dignity and sanctity of humanity; the inability to perceive the declivity from behind an acclivity, or rather, the proclivity to....
The Tatyana-caste
'...Just as the storm clouds often slayThe scarcely breathing new born day.' 1One of the most popular of Tennyson's poems, The Lady of Shalott relates the tragic story of an extremely lonely young lady longing for a soulmate. A poem of "technical virtuosity, inspired landscape-painting based on prec....
Voltaire: A History That Never Moved
Voltaire: A history that never moved By Binoy KampmarkWhy should history move? Consider it a frozen tableau, an unchanging picture. There are only emotions rather than causation. Even if there is historical causation, Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) (1694-1778) wrote in his works Histor....