Essays 451 - 480
in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...
learning, which was the current philosophy of his day (American Philosopher John Dewey). Since the inception of Deweys e...
a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs" (Thoreau 188)....
of her idiots began passing the same exams as non-retarded children, she started to question the effectiveness of the conventional...
The central issue has nothing to do with the sex of the individuals. The case is not affected by the fact that they are two...
We can better understand this by invoking a comparison. A generalist would demand sameness in terms of how something functions ca...
addition to reviving Deweys ideas, the current revival of constructivism also encompasses the ideas of other giants of education s...
and the production of goods and services enhanced, Greenspan contends that the first step in stimulating our economy should be to ...
In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...
a choice if deciding which way the world is swinging today, or always has. There is somewhat of a misconception that the world has...
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...
agree with Aristotles ideas, and see morality as a living concept, and something that should not be tampered with. What might Aris...
permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...
is contrasted with "conservative" or "right-wing" ideologies. Within the broader context of political theory. "liberalism" has a d...
Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...
and non-rational elements. Of the non-rational, the autonomic responses (breathing, sleeping, digesting, and reproducing) is commo...
In the context of a greater philosophy perhaps, a philosopher says what he thinks. Yet, he is unwittingly part of a grand plan. Wh...
the effects of "Original Sin" (Hundersmarck 133). While Machiavelli agreed with this stance, he did not do so because of theology....
years (Brumback, 1995). This company, intent on providing information to all of its employees, uses a multi-media ongoing training...
modification, which dispels ignorance" (Mohanty, 2001). When we cognize we abate ignorance....
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...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
some sort of graft then the government will also. Socrates, if one reads any of Platos works, seems to be a...
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...
their anxiety in significantly negative ways. Diversity in the type of sport is yet another critical consideration when it comes ...
truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...
stronger. The authors make no comment on whether any of the individuals were concerned about becoming dependent on their pa...
Crises arise that usher in change, systems achieve equilibrium for a time and then begin to change again, leading to another round...
the mind" then "no physical thing exists outside the mind" (McGreal 252). Third, primary qualities such as solidity, extension, sh...
in earlier times it was regarded only as the poor relation of quantitative research that nearly always was less reliable and far l...