Academic papers on Philosophy

The Politics of Rousseau and Burke.
(7pp) Rousseau developed the concept of the "noble savage," and to test it, tried living in the woods. Burke believed equality was a conception against nature and served in the English Parliament. One could claim they were both living out...
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Plato/Euthyphro, Crito, Apology, & Meno
A 5 page essay that answers several questions pertaining to Plato's dialogues. No other sources cited.
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Philosophical Argument: Bertrand Russell
This 5 page paper offers a tutorial discussion of the deductive logic used by Bertrand Russell in his book, The Problems Of Philosophy. No additional sources are listed. It concludes with an example of a criticism and, or, commentary.
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Plato
A five page paper which looks at the principles underlying the concepts of enlightenment, responsibility and leadership in Plato
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Creating & Defining the African American Community: Family, Church, Politics and Culture
(5 pp). This is a tutorial speech written for someone who has been asked to moderate an evening during Black History Month. Bibliography lists 3 sources: many quotes from prominent blacks.
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Aristotle's View on Change
This 5 page paper argues that Aristotle's sentiment that change in all things is sweet cannot be true. Death is explored and used as an example to negate the premise. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Susan Moller Okin And Iris Marion Young: Views On Multiculturalism And Criticism Of Rawls' Social Contract Theory
6 pages in length. The writer compares and contrasts Okin and Young's criticism of Rawls' social contract theory, as well as discusses Okin and Young's views on multiculturalism as it relates to women. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Karl Marx and Alienation Compared to John Stuart Mill and Liberty
This 8 page report discusses Karl Marx
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Aristotle
A six-page paper which look at Aristotle
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Three Methods Of Ethics
In Three Methods Of Ethics: A Debate, Marcia Baron writes on the Kantian perspective, Philip Pettit provides the viewpoint of the consequentialists and Michel Slote defends the position of the virtue theorists. This 5 page paper compares and...
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Summary of Plato's "Crito"
A 5 page paper which summarizes Plato's "Crito." This classic is essentially the final argument Socrates' offers to a friend who would have him escape rather than face imminent death. Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.
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Virtue? Vice? Modern Questions
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are alive and well in modern day North America. This 5 page paper presents a philosophical dialogue on vice and virtue as it applies to everyday life. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Aristotle: Seeking Constitutions
(5 pp) How shall we live and how shall we live most efficiently? Is happiness a necessary part of our lives? And then how does that apply to community and the governing of community? Early Greece was divided into what have been labeled...
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John Locke: Identity and Ideas
(5 pp) Locke divides our complex ideas into ideas of substance, modes and relations in his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), and then relates those to identity, person and moral agent. The labels may be old but the ideas are...
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Plato and Rousseau: Related by Analogy
(5 pp) An analogy" according to Mr. Webster, is an inference that if two or more things agree in some respects they will probably agree in others - a likeness between things that are unlike. In this discussion we will determine the...
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