In its purest form, happiness can only be achieved through the pleasure principle. ... Avoiding suffering becomes the goal, but the reality is that we are unable to avoid pain and we can't frequently obtain everything we want in the external world. ... When we are born in the civilization we have, happiness is every individual's goal. What Freud pointed out in his text, is still found nowadays, the achievement of happiness is and will be our final goal. ... What we usually say we need to achieve happiness is love, but Freud says that this so-called love is the search of pleasure. ...

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The goal of a human being then is to justify his existence. ... Even before the present day techniques were developed, people already had in place procedures that essentially had similar goals to what is now termed as euthanasia. ...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...

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 1 This paper will attempt to address what is perhaps the single most life altering issue facing our societies today. It is life altering in the utmost sense of the word, literally altering life as we know it. Life on this planet has undergone some significant changes since the dawn of civilization; the discovery of fire, the wheel, the industrial revolution, and the list goes on. The industrial revolution brought perhaps the most significant changes to society as a whole, for it was at this point that we moved from a fuedal society to a capitalist society. Industrialization...

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Future of an Illusion Religion today is a topic of many controversial arguments. It being one of the main basis of our development as a civilization, it is hard for it to still keep its place in a world as developed as ours, as the advanced and modern ideas of today start to contradict with the...

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Final Examination 1. Heraclitus makes the statement that "you can't step into the same river twice." This comes from the idea that the river is flowing and ever changing. With its constant flow, by the time you put your foot in take it out and put it back in again, the water you first touched wi...

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Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mi...

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A great number of people would argue that there are very few things, which our American society holds dear. However, after the events on September eleventh just over a year ago, it became abundantly clear that the one thing we revere the most is our freedom and ability to choose in a democratically based republic. It is this ability to choose, and the mutual respect of other people's right to choose based in their own beliefs which makes picking and finding one single, moral, and ethical law to govern any situation a difficult task. Too often people see morality and ethics as a clear c...

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