Existentialism is a Humanism Jean-Paul Sartre‚ 19451 My purpose here is to defend existentialism against several reproaches that have been laid against it. Existentialism has been criticised for inviting people to remain in a quietism of despair‚ to fall back into a the middle-class luxury of a merely contemplative philosophy. We are reproached for underlining human nastiness‚ and forgetting‚ as the Catholic Mme. Mercier has it‚ the smile of the child. All and sundry reproach us for treating
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the book seems to be the nature of justice‚ a topic in political philosophy‚ but Plato also has his characters explore issues in philosophical cosmology‚ philosophical theology‚ philosophical anthropology‚ ethics‚ aesthetics‚ and epistemology. The parts of the Republic that are contained in our text (pp. 107-123) focus on Plato’s idea (ideal?) of the Philosopher Ruler. According to Plato‚ the best possible political system (state) will be ruled (governed) by
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War on Drugs Solution: Legalization? Proposal Much like the exclusion of alcohol back in the 20s which was aimed to evict various substances from our civilization‚ the drug war today has not only ruined its mission‚ but has made its mission unfeasible. Today various failures‚ whether it is the huge amount of money being spent erroneously or the increasing number of crimes and users‚ one thing is for sure; the war on drugs has fallen short. There is no
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In the article titled " Hobby Lobby Ruling Much More than Abortion" discusses the supreme court ruling regarding abortion and birth control. The author expressed that family owned businesses have been ruled in court to opt out of the federal requirement to pay for birth control in health coverage for their workers. The family owned business did not feel it was fair to follow the recent mandate by President Obama regarding contraceptives. Hobby Lobby was targeted by social media for being unfair and
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great philosopher‚ Plato‚ to describe democracy exactly with one of these terms: “Democracy … is a charming form of government‚ full of variety and disorder; and dispersing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike” (Plato 214). The underlining message of the quoted sentence leads one to believe Plato employed the adjective – charming – with a great degree of sarcasm. The philosopher states that democracy brings instability to a state which is governed by the many. Plato is also voicing his
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because it makes the Constitution the Supreme law of the law instead of specifically banning Sharia law. Unlike the Oklahoma Law‚ SQ 755‚ which specifically banned only Sharia law and was deemed unconstitutional because of how it was discriminatory against a specific religion. Based on certain things I have read and watched‚ it suggests that the two legal systems can not coexist and that many of their values infringe upon another. Therefore‚ suggesting to make the Constitution the supreme law of the
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Most people have heard of the case of Amadou Diallo‚ a black man slain at his doorway by police‚ which for some reason was questioned to be a case of racial profiling at all. But the fact is that there are many other cases and complaints made against law enforcement officials‚ mostly involving traffic stops of minorities. The following are examples of cases and complaints made to the American Civil Liberties Union‚ which are posted on their web site‚ of racial profiling from various newspaper
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Westward Expansion Although the United States had good reasons for kicking the Indians off their land like mining and housing for the extreme population growth‚ the United States wasn’t justified in its treatment of the Native Americans during the period of Western Expansion. The United States forced the Indians to move from their land and go more west every time they kept finding gold. The Indians had been there for years before the Americans even started their colonies so they had ancestral
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By supporting racial profiling we are supporting racism‚ and by supporting racism‚ we are supporting hate. As this practice is becoming common procedure‚ entire groups of people are being discriminated against. This erroneous view of a complete race‚ induced by racial profiling‚ demonstrates the overall misconception and ignorance people have regarding people who are different from them. Labeling a particular group of persons as terrorists not only is unfair
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There too many deaths occurring in the United States. One of those type of deaths include organ failure. People who wait on a list to be given a new organ. The list gets longer and longer every year and people die in result of the length of the list. As NBC13.com news points out “everyday seventeen people die waiting for organ transplants.”People are truly waiting to die. These deaths could simply be prevented by having a system in place that could provide a service to these helpless individuals
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