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Hobbes vs. Locke on Parental Authority: A Critical Comparison

Comparing Hobbes and Locke on parental authority, this essay argues Hobbes' contract-based view is more consistent and convincing than Locke's biological rights framework.

Philosophy

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Essay Undergraduate 1,041 words

The Gender Wage Gap: Earnings Inequality or Earnings Difference?

Is the gender wage gap real discrimination or a statistical artifact? This essay examines both sides, from median earnings data to labor law and personal choice.

Social Issues

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1,794 words

Moral and theological bias in Plato and Aristotle's metaphysics

The human mind has shown vigilance over the ages in pushing thought beyond the visible world into other realms of possible being. Yet whether one is convinced by metaphysical argument often has less to do with logic and more to do with what beliefs one is willing to put faith in.

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1,368 words

Analysis of Braybrooke's ecumenical approach to interfaith spiritual dialogue

Rev. Marcus Braybrooke, is very obviously an ecumenicist, though he does allude to significant inherent conflicts in his essay, "Can We Share in Others' Spiritual Traditions?" This work will be an engaging analysis of this essay, applying to it ideas and ideals associated with the development of…

~7 min read

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1,835 words

Kant's Prolegomena and the vindication of a priori knowledge

Kant wrote the Prolegomena as a primer and a "state of the field" essay for any future thinkers on metaphysics. He also wrote it as a "sketch" to the longer, more dense Critique of Pure Reason, which was either ignored or misunderstood upon its release two-year earlier.

~10 min read

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1,422 words

Descartes' account of human error in the Fourth Meditation

Right, that's actually the paragraph I thought that you were referring to. This paragraph contains important information not found in the rest of the essay because it operates as a counterargument. It begins by conceding the fact that Descartes' viewpoint is not entirely incorrect.

~8 min read

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2,333 words

How selective perception and imagery shape unconscious judgment

We are prone to making impressions, yet as the study in this essay shows it may be images that subconsciously form our impressions and direct judgment to be made about them accordingly.

~12 min read

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1,614 words

Emotional intelligence in primal leadership and organizational performance

Goleman et al. (2001) revealed much useful information in discussing their ideas about primal leadership. Eventually this group developed an argument about emotional intelligence and discussed this idea as an extremely important, yet mostly overlooked component of workplace leadership.

~9 min read

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1,310 words

Using Aristotle's rhetorical devices to analyze Turkish journalist advocacy

Before I took this class, when I was writing a persuasive research paper, I would tend to throw information onto the page, hoping that one of my ideas or facts would resonate with the reader, but without thought to how I structured my arguments.

~7 min read

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1,662 words

Jonathan Swift's use of satire in Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift's use of satire in his story "Gulliver's Travels" is not only a useful employment of its best purposes but perhaps also the only way to craft this type of critical argument. Critical thought towards society and its class structure has always been art's most powerful trait.

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