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    The Immortality of Abortion

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    The Immorality of Abortion Abortion is one of the most controversial political and social issues in the world. The abortion issue is very complex and involves several aspects of political‚ religion‚ medical‚ and social beliefs and contingencies. At what stage human life begins is one of the main arguments of abortion between the pro-choice advocates and the pro-life advocates. The morality of abortion is even more complex than abortion itself. Abortion is immoral and may be considered as murder.

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    Socrates

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    Sophists cont’d 3) key pre understandings A all knowledge is relative B Culture‚ religion‚ and ethics are circumstantial and thereby changeable‚ rather than natural permanent and absolute 4) The sophists role in Athenian Democracy A The Shift to democract meant that clear speech and the power of persuation was indispensible B Sophists taught the art of rhetoric‚ the art of persuasive speech‚ not for the sake of truth‚ but for the sake of winning the argument 1 make a bad case look

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    Infant Immortality

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    Infant Mortality in the United States Trends in infant mortality are considered to be a barometer of technology and an accurate indicator of the health of a society. Despite technological excellence and numerous social programs offered throughout the country‚ the infant mortality rate (IMR) in the United States continues to be a national concern. For many‚ "infant mortality" brings to mind the deprivation and poverty found in third world countries. Yet in the United States

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    What Is a Soul?

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    What is a soul? Is it part of our body? Does it even hold any significant importance? These are all great questions that nobody can be quite sure about. Through this essay‚ I’m going to dissect the powerful theories on the soul from Plato’s Phaedo and offer insight on how the soul may hold the ultimate key to happiness. In Plato’s Phaedo‚ Plato speaks on his theories on the existence of the soul through the voice of Socrates. In this dialogue‚ Socrates has been sentenced to death and talks

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    middle period‚ along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo‚ which depicts the death of Socrates‚ is also Plato’s seventh and last dialogue to detail the philosopher’s final days (the first six being Theaetetus‚ Euthyphro‚ Sophist‚ Statesman‚ Apology‚ and Crito). In the dialogue‚ Socrates discusses the nature of the afterlife on his last day before being executed by drinking hemlock poison. Socrates has been imprisoned and sentenced to death by Athenian political leaders for not believing in

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    socrates

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    however‚ money is not the total answer to success and happiness. Wisdom and truth are more important. The great Greek philosopher Socrates warned his fellow citizens by saying “are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation‚ and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul.” Unfortunately Socrates said that hundreds of years ago but this is a challenge that still relevant in today’s world because this world that we live in

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    The Crito, By Socrates

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    Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher who is accredited as the main source of establishing the fundamentals of modern Western philosophy and logic. He is notably known for creating the Socratic method‚ Socratic irony and contributing to the field of ethics. Socrates was ahead of his time as he established an ethical system based on logos‚ human reason‚ rather than mythos‚ theological doctrine. This change from fables claiming divine warrant‚ to the pursuit of knowledge of central concepts and

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    The Soul

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    SOUL The question of the truth and knowledge of soul and its peculiarity in form is a highly debated issue in philosophy. Does the soul exist? How can one find their souls? Since the soul is not physical‚ can we connect with it? Numerous theories of nature and existence of the soul have come up as an attack on the belief in its existence after death. In his Republic‚ Plato argues that the soul consists of three basic energies which animate human beings: Reason‚ Emotion‚ and Appetite. Reason is

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    Souls

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    even middle aged‚ you’ll start donating your vital organs” (Ishiguro 81). The clones are destined to be donors for the rest of their living lives. The question is do clones have souls? Many people have their view on the soul. They say that they don’t have souls or that they are born with it. Others say that our soul grows with them. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go parallels Plato’s Allegory of the Cave from an Aristotlean perspective where the soul’s essence precedes existence. In Plato’s

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    Can’t Take It With You Dr. Vincenzo Philosophy 110 B February 17‚ 2016 1. The Socratic character of Grandpa Vanderhof has similar traits as to Socrates in book 1 of The Republic. In book 1 Socrates questions characters and talks to them about happiness and life. His question is “ Does he mean that justice is doing good to friends and harm to enemies”. Socrates question to Polemarchus‚ they argue about what justice is. So tying it to the movie with how Grandpa Vanderhof talks about life lessons with

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