Plato emphasis on empirical observations is that knowledge is good, and Aristotle's emphasis is you can learn about ethics and human behavior by observing human behavior. The philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and St. ... Plato's philosophy assumes that God exists as a supremely good being whose goodness is analogous to Plato's concrete concept or the ultimate good. ... One problem with Plato's philosophy is his inconsistency; he owes the existence of his Ideas to both God and goodness, but he claims the two are not identical....

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However there are certain ethics that you have to follow. ... Medical ethics considers ideas of personal freedom and dignity. Medical ethics also deals with medical advances in technology and has reshaped traditional medical ethics. Medical ethics have changed drastically over a period of time. Classic experiments challenge the framework of the guidelines of medical ethics or perhaps even the total definition of medical ethics. ...

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Philosophy is the investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods and is the main tool used to begin this search. Where philosophy is more of a reasoning discipline there are other ways to go about exploring for the meaning of life. ... Within philosophy are several obediences that are followed. Ethics is the question of what should be versus what is. ...

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It is necessary therefore to analyze their different theoretical approaches regarding their philosophical perspectives, such as ethics and psychology. ... Aristotle has his philosophy for the purpose of human nature. ... The corresponding question in terms of ethics is whether God loves the good because it is good or whether it is good because God loves it. Divine command theorists give a clear and unequivocal answer to this question in the area of ethics. ... For Hindus, two things count against the divine command view of ethics. ...

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Too often people see morality and ethics as a clear cut black and white issue, but I feel that the truth must lie somewhere in varying shades of gray. ... The problem is that there is no great consensus on what this ideal law is, and until we reach that point, we must fall back on trusting that other people's ethics and morality are just as valid as our own, and allow them to make their own choices within the bounds of the laws the majority of society has already laid down. ... It should be allotted the same freedoms as the mother to exist in our society and choose its own ethics and mo...

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This however is true to all philosophical thought and is part of the very definition of philosophy itself. ... The choice is made easier by constant adherence to instructed ethics but the temptation towards choosing the comparatively "less good" action is very powerful at a young age and also if not instructed properly. ...

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It shows moral standards are formed more based on the appetite of the pleasure than its ethics. ... Finally, moral standards are shaped by all humans through our own morals, ethics, pleasures, and conscience. ...

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The sciences, both natural and human, are arguably the most objective areas of knowledge as they deal more in fact and observation, as opposed to the more opinionated and inference-based subjective areas of knowledge like faith and ethics. ... This of course is the study of Philosophy, made popular by Ancient Greek scholars and Enlightenment Era thinkers alike. ... It is then of the utmost importance that we use these two guiding philosophies to discover our one true place, and not to impatiently jam ourselves into the first free space we see. ...

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Scholars in many countries found it increasingly difficult to bridge the gulf between natural and supernatural, to reconcile natural law and divine providence, and to balance moral philosophy and spiritual virtue. ... Philosophes set out to get a few things out of the way, namely Christianity, not its ethics of love and brotherhood, but its supernatural history, theology, and church. ... Around this time Spinoza was expanding a philosophy deeply marked by natural science, which was incompatible with a literal belief in the Bible. ... He wrote on philosophy, science, music, and art, and wrote n...

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My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. ... It is true that we also can write poems with our mind and make paintings and music and invent theories and philosophies. ... Ideas about knowledge and truth form a very essential part of Western philosophy and that also is understandable since we are human because of that extra mental capability we have, our mind, our spirit, our ratio. ... Actually with them the history of Western philosophy ...

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In the article called, "Genetic Encores: The Ethics of Human Cloning- from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, the author, Robert Wachbroit (1998), writes an argumentative essay, which mainly discusses the concerns about cloning. ...

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Overall Wicca is a philosophy as much as it is a nature-based religion (Encarta 7). ... The appropriate workings are learning to accept your spiritual path and obstacles throughout meditation (Ethics of Wicca 2). ...

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Psychology evolved through three subjects philosophy, biology and physics. ... Through "ethics" there is a rule that no mental or physical harm should come to a participant of an experiment carried out on a psychological basis. ...

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Soren Kierkegaard, in his struggle to understand human existence, believed that time is a major factor for this understanding. As humans, we exist in time, and therefore it is an aspect of human nature, given that anything human entails human nature. The aim in this paper is to focus on the concept of "the eternal" and how it relates to the human being. In order to do this we will need to develop Kierkegaard's conception of the self, and the difference between spatialized time and life time. In his book The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard defines the self as: "Man is spirit. ...

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