Academic papers on Philosophy

Locke and Reid: Thinking and Perceiving an Identity
(5 pp). We must consider what (a) person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself
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The Mumia Abu-Jamal Trial ( 12 pp).
The 1982 trial of political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal reads like something from a Greek tragedy; and the Chorus has become those around the world who believe in the man's innocence even after almost two decades of incarceration. What is...
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Friendship And Love
This 5 page paper explores the views of Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics and C. S. Lewis in his book, The Four Loves, on the issues of friendship and love. No additional sources are listed.
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Three Levels Of Thought
Dante in Inferno and Plato in The Republic both address the relationship between the soul and the sins of man. This 5 page paper argues that Dante's presentation of the levels of sin reflect Plato's beliefs of what constituted the soul and...
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Truth and Justice in Plato's Apology
This 5 page paper examines the concepts of truth and justice using Plato's Apology. The Socratic method, and its relevance to finding the truth, is discussed in detail. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Utilitarianism and the Distinction Between Persons
This 5 page report discusses the ideas of 19th century philosopher, John Stuart Mill, who was certain that the highest normative principle is that,
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Plato, Aristotle, and Justice
This 6 page report discusses Plato
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The Identity Theory: Contributions of J.J.C. Smart
A 5 page overview of the theory regarding the interaction and connectiveness of the brain and mind. First dubbed the identity theory by U.T. Place and Herbert Feigl in the 1950s, this theory was complemented by the philosophies of J.J.C. Smart who...
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The Philosophy of Knowledge
This 6 page paper delves into theories of knowledge by many philosophers including Descartes, Spinoza, Hume and Kant. Many theories are discussed. An outline is included. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Rousseau, Burke And Tocqueville: Political Ideology, Society And Individualism
6 pages in length. Alexis de Tocqueville analyzed the pitfalls of individualism when he wrote Democracy in America, while Edmund Burke, in Reflections of the French Revolution, condemned diversity, nonconformity and individualism. Jean Jacques...
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Michel Foucault/Discipline and Punish
A 10 page essay that analyzes Foucault's text on the origins of the modern day use of prisons. In this study, he relates to the body and soul of the individual in a manner that illuminates the way that modern states use punishment as a power system....
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Living Buddha, Living Christ: a dialogue
(7 pp) For Thich Nhat Hanh, author of the 1997 book Living Buddha, Living Christ, "religious life, is life." This book brings together decades of discussion concerning the thoughtful examination of the beliefs of Christianity and Buddhism,...
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David Hume's Critique Of Mankind's Knowledge Of Causal Relationships
6 pages in length. The writer discusses how the very nature of David Hume's critique of mankind's knowledge of causal relationships revolves around the notion of whether or not one variable truly causes another. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Mill v. Kant on Morality
A 5 page essay that contrasts and compares the moral philosophy of eighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant and nineteenth-century philosopher John Stuart Mill, who offer fundamentally different systems for determining the ethics of a given...
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Descartes & Problems with Epistemology
A 5 page essay on the philosophy of Rene Descartes, the seventeenth-century French philosopher whose revolutionary perspective on the epistemology of knowledge destabilized the traditional (i.e., medieval) ways of regarding the natural world and...
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