I, a senior medical officer in Ottawa, have been approached by a group of people who have survived a devastating biological weapons attack. I thought that I was the sole survivor of this attack but am relieved to find out there are seven other survivors. The group of seven survivors do not know h...

Freud on Dracula Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, once referred to Bram Stoker's "Dracula" as an exploration into "the return of the repressed". The novel is about a man who comes to Count Dracula's house to conduct business matters. Dracula traps Jona...

Immanuel Kant was born in Konigsberg, which is now Kaliningrad, Russia, on April 22, 1722. He was the son of a saddler. (Copleston, 1960) Kant received his education at the Colleguim Fredericianum and the University of Konigsberg. While attending the college, he studied mostly the classics, an...

After a 1997 experiment in which a sheep was cloned, the argument of cloning humans came up. The argument surrounding cloning pits the views of two different groups against each other. Similar to the pro-life activists in the abortion argument there is the conservative wing who claim the utilization...

Stages of Cognitive Moral Development Synopsis: American History X is a movie that reveals what individuals go through sometimes in order to reform themselves into better people both morally and ethically. Derek Vinyard, the main character, is the individual who experiences tough times in order t...

I have observed in my nineteen years of living that almost everyone in this society strives to be the same or like the popular culture. The average person is very materialistic, and strives for an appealing physical appearance. Artificiality is common in the popular culture. For example, dying of...

Michael Levin is a Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York and the Graduate center, City University of New York. He is well known in Libertarian circles and has written much about social issues in the US, especially feminism, race, crime, and other unorthodox issues. In Levin=s e...

Corporate business ethics has sparked one of the most controversial, concerning, and notorious issues in our world today. Business ethics refers to how people and institutions behave in the world of commerce, including factors such as exploiting its workforce, negligence for the environment, and the...

CLONING The advance of technology has awakened an enormous potential for both good and evil. Within the last two decades scientists have developed great advances in science about reproduction and genetic engineering leading to cloning. This has created sharpest controversies involving opposing ...

Friedrich Nietzche, a 19th century German philosopher and writer, was one of the most influential modern thinkers. He was the first major thinker to take seriously the full implications of the historical critique and to apply it to all of a culture's most cherished possessions. He attempt...

Friedrich Nietzche, a 19th century German philosopher and writer, was one of the most influential modern thinkers. He was the first major thinker to take seriously the full implications of the historical critique and to apply it to all of a culture's most cherished possessions. He attempt...

John Nelson October 20, 2000 Religious Studies 10 Prof. Carr Confucianism as a Religion How does one define religion? What characteristics does a view need to have in order to be considered a religion? Questions similar to these have been asked many times, and no concrete answer has been unive...

When I visited Berry College, one of the first things that I learned was Martha Berry's mission for her students - to educate the head, the heart, and the hands. The lady in the admissions office who welcomed us to Berry beamed as she told me how almost a hundred years later this missi...

Can we, do we, and should we legislate morality is a question that rings in the ears of many Americans. It seems that there are more factors, conditions and answers to this frequently asked question than the common person is willing to consider. Let's attempt to take the best ideas from...

To Cheat Or Not To Cheat? A Philosophical Decision Utilizing Kantian Reasoning Basically, this student's choice, if he copied his roommate's paper, would not be consistent with the Moral Law as understood by Immanuel Kant through his work, "Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals&...