Essays 1981 - 2010
from a state of freedom to a willingness to submit to the states authority? This is the underlying question in the majority of hi...
the capitalist system which emphasizes individuality over community and competition over cooperation. Areas that were once ...
well for nearly a century. There appears to be no need for the company to change many of its organizational structures now that it...
things in the sky and below the earth, who makes the worse argument the stronger " (cited in Ross, 2000, p. PG). This is a formula...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...
is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...
(Anonymous Booker T. Washington ... one Americas leading educators, 1995; p. 16). This was because Washington taught a subtle kind...
poem makes it clear that the human soul can only enjoy a happy eternity by pledging complete faith and allegiance in God, Boccacci...
Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...
their own minds, try to "find" a motivation for Mersaults actions. Mersault is eventually convicted and sentenced with a motive th...
Socrates ideas. He states that he will be Euthyphros student in these matters. Of course, it would seem that Socrates is being a b...
purposes of taming Enkidu, the wild man (Radcliffe, 2001). Enkidu is important to the story as he exemplifies the average man in s...
pass another mid point, and so on into infinity (OConnor and Robertson, 1996). The argument looks at this as proving that motion m...
The life of Joseph Beuys began as a very conservative one as he was the only child born in a Catholic middle class family in Krefe...
explanation, and ultimately irrational," but he also "considered life valuable and worth defending. While the American public thou...
Hindus in that they also believe that dharma is a natural universal law which is in and pervades everything. To live in harmony wi...
existence. Thus, he sees himself as something more than a victim. He simply has a less desirable fate than some of his peers. Yet,...
to the average man who does not embark on philosophical pursuits, and does not wonder how the world began but accepts the explanat...
technical crime. It is worth noting that ethics is not what values are actually held by the courts or the individuals, but of th...
Chief among notable theologians to undertake study of this matter is Jurgen Moltmann, and his philosophy is often referred to as t...
and the production of goods and services enhanced, Greenspan contends that the first step in stimulating our economy should be to ...
addition to reviving Deweys ideas, the current revival of constructivism also encompasses the ideas of other giants of education s...
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...
of poetry, since it is the expression of imagination that allows for emotional comprehension. Introduction Imagination i...
in front of me and a keyboard at my fingers. Is the movement of my fingers real as I type these words? The possibility that perh...
background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...
a choice if deciding which way the world is swinging today, or always has. There is somewhat of a misconception that the world has...
of her idiots began passing the same exams as non-retarded children, she started to question the effectiveness of the conventional...
study, many infants actually died as a result because the women could not properly store the man-made food. Here, the moral dile...
from disease to non-disease to health. She argues that "This synthesized view incorporates disease as meaningful aspect of health...