Philosophy
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Mind Vs the Brain
We usually perceive the mind as the brain and body as something physical. The mind may be better known and understood when one is thinking. When thinking, the mind is made up purely of thoughts and the body is an extension. The mind is telling the body what to do.
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Mind, Body and Soul
In this paper, I will tell you of the philosophical adventure that I took inside my mind, to try and figure out my own theory on humans as individuals, death, and the life after. Numerous times throughout this semester, I have found myself pondering whether I believe the body-based theory,
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Minimum Wages in Malaysia
Minimum wages was recommended by the National Wage Consultative Council (NWCC), the government has set a minimum wage of RM900/month for Peninsular Malaysia and RM800/month for Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan. This will benefit 3.2m private sector workers (25.8% of total employment) other than those in domestic services. The minimum wage
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Modest Proposal Summary
Swift's Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet By George Wittkowsky Summary A modest Proposal by Irish economic writer Jonathan Swift is a parody pamphlet to 18th century’s Mercantilist belief that “People are the riches of a nation”. In the mercantilists’ view, no child was too young to
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Moral Case
'Kant said we must act because of a perceived duty to do so. His model regards sets of rules, or principles (maxims) as the guide to human behaviour. These rules are also referred to as duties. Kant examined the act itself and developed these duties: 1. The duty to help
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Moral Distinction Between Active and Passive Euthanasia
In recent years, the debate on euthanasia has become more intensely. Specially, in the debate between the active and passive euthanasia, some medical people think to provide a patient with the death they want without having to deal with the difficult moral problems they would face if they deliberately killed
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Morality
Today, our society always debates on the ethics of lying.But whether it is morally wrong or not.It is a controversial topic. I am going to discuss this topic because almost everyone will lie to somebody. It is closely related to our life. Lying is to make a false statement with
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Morality Does Not Depend on Religion
Plato once said "Is what pious loved by the Gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved?" What Plato is trying to make us think about here is whether moral actions are good because the Gods command it, or do the Gods command it because
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Morality of Lying
Trying to determine what makes up morality has been a topic that philosophers have been concerned with for quite some time. As humans, we constantly beat ourselves over the head (some more than others) when it comes to figuring out what constitutes a moral action. Each person has their own
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Morality Vs Rationality
Morality vs Rationality The importance of the debate between morality and rationality is immense in each of our individual lives as it concerns every crucial as well as to some extent trivial action or decision we take. Some of us, the more learned, literate and knowledgeable people would know that
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