Essays 2161 - 2190
the Republic. Take pornography as an example. Plato argued that objectionable ideas can upset the understanding (Johnston). Femini...
But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...
and symbols, that is, how abstract ideas are communicated through the mediums of language, writing and also through visual communi...
president, he had as much of an ardent following as he did a collection of adversaries; however, this diverse constituency reflect...
his theory of mind/body separation. His desire to achieve such an all-encompassing objective was meant to start at the beginning ...
In five pages the perceptions of classical philosophers Machiavelli, Plato, and Aristotle are applied to defense management's ethi...
is a body, "more numerous than the people which compose it," but it can "never be shown" because it is simply an abstraction (Kier...
mans capacity for creating deceptive notions with his Idols of the Tribe, which he attributes as being applicable only to the huma...
grow at their own pace. While they - as a group -- share many developmental aspects, children cannot be consolidated as a single ...
defined either narrowly or quite expansively (Rathbun, 2008). Our historic focus on isolationism has for the most part been based...
an ED, in general, nursing interaction focuses on individuals, as the point of the emergency service is to stabilize patients in ...
a world in which there is much pleasure but the people are vicious, unless they derive pleasure from viciousness, which seems to b...
As such, attempting to interpret knowledge, language and meaning is to draw from the innermost recesses of ones existence. Hermen...
in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...
who waste time believing or fearing that which is untrue could not possibly be calm or contemplative; as such, they could change t...
an emphasis on more practical learning in higher education (Boyce, 2003). Du Bois would focus on the importance of knowledge inclu...
people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...
a certain set of circumstances, and that would not be acceptable as a moral guide. B) Consider a new law that requires people wit...
This paper discusses the 'realistic' value of realism in a theoretical comparison with nationalism, Marxism, and liberalism consis...
dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
learning, which was the current philosophy of his day (American Philosopher John Dewey). Since the inception of Deweys e...
Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...
In five pages Aristotle's concept of happiness with an emphasis upon a life of contemplation is discussed. Five sources are cited...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...
in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...
In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...