Moral Universalism should be a worldview. I believe that it would be better for the human race to live in a world where moral universalism is the accepted worldview. I believe this because moral universalism almost offers the world a moral view that has no conflicts, no differences and has no bias...

Pascal builds his argument in "Man and the Universe" out of a series of paradoxes, seemingly contradictory truths. In writing, "Man and the Universe," Pascal reflected his views on what is our place in the world as human beings. Pascal's writing shows a harmony be...

Are There Any Universal Values? When a person encounters a crisis, a problem, or a questionable situation, they look at experience and decide what action to take. In order to determine whether an action is right or wrong, a person must enter into an ethical experience and consider the motivati...

Last month, members of the Appropriations Committee of the North Carolina House of Representatives voted to use the power of the state budget to block the assignment of a book to all freshmen and transfer students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Approaching t...

Lecture Paper 5 Beaver Problem The debate about the Beaver of UMBC has 2 opposing sides with equally strong convictions. The beaver is obviously causing enormous amounts of damage to the trees around Pig Pen Pond; this is not the question at hand. The question that has both sides fierce and w...

GOD OR DEVILAccording to an opinion poll about belief of God and Devil's existence, done at University of Grenoble, most of people believe in God. They imagine Him in differents ways. An abstract "thought" is the picture of God the most quoted by students. They see Him like something invisible which...

In "Universal History," Kant proposes nine theses that creates an idea of universal history-- history which allows people to discover freedom of the will and to develop and progress to each specie's capacity or each human's "unknown natural end." (Kant, 17) Hegel, in ...

When comparing The American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics and The University of Phoenix Code of Student Responsibilities, one has to realize that these standards pertain to the nurse as a student and the student who is also a nurse. These roles are interchangeable. These principles ...

The great Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius collected his thoughts and reflections in "The Meditations." He embraced stoicism so much that he spent much of his life time investigating the stoic philosophy and it became his approach to life. The main pillar on which these stoic thoughts are bas...

People have often wondered where, when and why the universe began and where we came from, Christians believe that god made the earth, all living things and the universe. Scientists try to explain when the universe began by the big bang theory and that everyone evolved from apes. There are two main...

Human activity in society is continually bombarded by anomic phenomena such as suffering, death, and evil actions. These events must be accounted for and explained within the context of the nomos of the given society. The explanation of these phenomena in terms of religious ideals is a theodicy...

There will come a time when all souls cannot escape salvation. It is then that the universe will ultimately collapse. Afterward, all souls will be depressed to live a life where they have shackles forever. When a particular place in the universe has cooled life shall emerge, although it will be m...

In the preface of the book, A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt defines the word common. He states, "He is called "The Common Man"...and the word "common" was intended primarily to indicate "that which is common to us all"." (Preface XIX) This statement clearly...

What was so enlightened about the enlightenment? Where is the evidence of how it enlightened anybody? The enlightenment was a period where previous notions of our world were disregarded and new views adopted in their place. Authority no longer came from divine scripture, ancient philosophers, or th...

Jerry Springer was born in London in 1944 as his family fled from the Holocaust. After earning a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Tulane University, Springer received his law degree from Northwestern University in 1968. His first job after law school was working as one of Senator Ro...

CAN WE PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF GOD? 1. Introduction The question does God exist, is the most controversial issue of serious debate over the centuries. What is the answer to this question? Many contributed their ideas and views to this challenging question from the time of the Greek philosophers to ...

Life is universal. However, each individual being, living or non-living, determines life or living separately. Amongst humankind there are three basic states of being/living, individualism, aloneness, and loneliness. Under these states human beings struggle through life questioning its meaning and ...

My aim in this paper is the show to the audience that morality is subjective. Morality doesn't abide by the universal principle, therefore it can't be objective. I shall do three things; first I shall examine the claim of Nagel, and the claim of Benedict. Second I shall compare both cl...

Dear Tutor, I want to introduce my self to give you a hint of my career and where I am working . Before one year I was working as an executive secretary in Kuwait Establishment for Educational Services as a chairman Secretary .Now I am working in the same position but with GUST (Gulf University ...

Explain the Moral Argument and what concepts of God it gives. The moral argument is the argument that proves God's existence using the existence of absolute morality. To make the moral argument even believable we would have to prove that absolute morality exists. First of all we must define mo...

Although Nietzsche viewed Christianity as life-denying, he did not altogether hate the idea of religion per se. His problem with Christianity is that it has lost its purpose and focuses on those who suffer, promising them a better afterlife instead of showing them a better life. Religion, he belie...

Would you help an old lady across the street? Would you help her out of the goodness of your heart? Would you help her for $5 tip? Would you help her because a plethora of beautiful women are watching sans-boyfriends? Immanuel Kant, unlike previous philosophers before him, defined an action as being...

One of the foundations of the African concept of harmony and peace rests upon the basic African cultural world-view of the philosophy of participation and integration. There is no drastic distinction between man and nature. The theory of knowledge that the African cultural experience projects,...

Paul Johannes Oskar Tillich Tillich was born into the family of a Lutheran pastor in the village of Starzeddel, Prussia, on Aug. 20, 1886. He studied at the university of Berlin, Tübingen, Halle, and Breslau. In 1912, at the age of 26 he was ordained a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran ...

I believe that Kepler contribute order in a time of disorder and chaos. Before Kepler’s theory was excepted, everybody believed that God controlled everything and earth is the center of the universe. People at the time were very superstitious, they believed in witches. They were very religious...