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The Environment, Future Generations, and John Rawls
I would like to note that my thesis's main point is not to present an entirely new and complete argument as to why we should preserve the environment, and more importantly, I do not argue that the only reason we should ...
Knowledge Through Participation: The Epistemic Status of Religious Belief
Critical philosophy has severely restricted the role of philosophy of religion. A hallmark of the critical approach is an acceptance of Locke's epistemological ethics: belief ought not to go beyond what explicit data or ...
Personal Honor and the Possibility for Redemption
What exactly is redemption? Webster's defines it as "an act or instance of repairing or restoring," and "expiation of guilt or wrong." More to the heart of the matter, is it possible to redeem oneself in an honor society ...
Wittgenstein on the Groundlessness of Our Fundamental Empirical and Religious Beliefs
This paper first examines Wittgenstein's treatment in On Certainty of the groundlessness of our fundamental beliefs. It then examines some 'groundless' aspects of religious (specifically Christian) beliefs, looking for ...
Please Vote Responsibly: An Argument for Why We Have an Ethical Responsibility to Inform Ourselves Before Voting (thesis)
. . . Given the fact that citizens living in a free and democratic state have the right to vote, this entails a civic responsibility to sufficiently inform themselves before voting or before engaging in other politically ...
Conventions, Idiolects, and Malapropisms: A Critical Evaluation of Davidson (thesis)
Donald Davidson concludes his 1986 article, "A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs" by making a few seemingly sensational and ambitious claims: "I conclude that there is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything ...
Can an Effective Lawyer be a Morally Upstanding Person? An Examination of Legal Ethics (thesis)
In this essay, I will analyze various scholarly responses to a widely debated question within legal ethics: does the lawyer's role mint permissions to violate ordinary morality? I will begin with a brief introduction to ...
A Defense of Utilitarianism (thesis)
I will attempt to defend utilitarianism from the demandingness objection. The sort of utilitarianism that I refer to throughout is the consequentialist moral theory that obligates us to maximize well-being. The form of ...
On Showing and Saying: An Analysis of Go?del 1931
In 1931 Kurt Go?del published a theorem demonstrating that many systems of formal logic capable of developing arithmetic possess major deficiencies. He shovs that such systems, if they are consistent, are powerless to ...
Gesang ist Dasein: Nietzsche, Aesthetics, and Why Art is Worth More than the Truth
What, then, are we to make of Nietzsche's exaltation of art? The goal of this study is to examine why Nietzsche might have declared art to be worth more than the Truth and, with sufficient prudence so as not to attempt to ...