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Cogito and Rene Descartes

he (and humans in general) is(are) a complete entity, a "cogito" or "thinking thing" (as he clarifies in step 1), that entity is c...

Schools of Thought Regarding Strategic Planning

achieving the proper fit between the internal strengths and weaknesses and the external opportunities and threats (Mintzberg and L...

Gulf War, U.S., Iraq, and a Contrast of Ideologies

of the group. Functionalists believe that every state has the universal right to provide those elements which will strike a balanc...

Organizational Design, Management Knowledge, and the Contributions of Contingency Thinking

the ability to consider the way things may be different and then to look at the way this will impact on the company and then solve...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath' from Canterbury Tales

the witch may well have been incredibly deceptive and conniving in her involvement with the knight, and in this we can see the pre...

Application of Montessori Mathematics to Children Between the Ages of Three and Six

children, materials such as colored rods and beads (Kahn, nd; University of Kansas, 2000). Among other things, young children can ...

'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorn and Puritan Thought

culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes wo...

Perception, Language, Cognition and Consciousness in Classic Indian Philosophy

modification, which dispels ignorance" (Mohanty, 2001). When we cognize we abate ignorance....

Pharmaceutical Industry and European Think Tanks

care issues will explore the relationship between European think tanks and the multinational pharmaceutical companies, specificall...

Assessing Logic in an Appendix

a quite reasonable approach to making the bidding process effective. The entire bid process already is time-consuming, delaying t...

Connection Between Making Decisions and Critical Thinking

looks upon his world as a direct reflection of him, his values, beliefs, experiences, conditions and development; contrarily, huma...

Comparison of Gestalt and Behaviorism

(1969 as Overskeid, 1995) states: "Behavior which is exclusively shaped by ... contingencies is perhaps the closest one can come t...

H.G. Wells' 'Time Machine' and Adolf Hitler's Thoughts

feat of time travel, for example, through the wonders of modern science. After years of meticulous work he has managed to create ...

Nursing and Critical Thinking

should be emphasized that some nurses see their function in a more spiritual manner. They take their role as a calling to help tho...

Eras of Enlightenment and Romanticism

The text suggests that waking and daylight are most conducive to logical thought. Popes analysis of mans position in the chain of ...

Corporate Sector and Cultural Diversity

twenty-five percent African-American, ten percent Asian-American and seventeen percent Hispanic -- had plans to leave their curren...

Strategic Thinking and Its Practical Applications

of a statistical area that has many goals. In addition to needing to meet specific deadlines to fulfill filing requirements and su...

Critical Thinking, Elementary Grades, and Music Education

the research linking music instruction with developing higher-order reasoning skills is still controversial. Therefore, there is a...

Consideration of Medical Negligence

In ten pages medical negligence is considered with such cases as 1957's Bolam v. Friern HMC and 1997's Bolitho v. Hackney HA refer...

Humanism, Structuralism, and the Individual

to language. For example, there would not be the idea of darkness without an understanding of what it means to have light. Therefo...

Critical Thinking and Language

t hat has been linked to complex problem solving and other forms of higher cognition, such as deriving abstract principles and cha...

Skepticism and Descartes' Cogito

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

Radical Aspects of the Scientific Revolution

the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun around the earth as was held by the Church (Meeks, 1997). This assertion al...

Socrates' Thoughts and Influence

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

Patient Choice and Medical Negligence

mechanism it can be expected that this shift in the accountability and transparency needs to be indicates within case law. It can...

Rationalism and Empiricism

"empiricists claim that nothing is in the mind that did not come through the senses." Such a claim would suggest that people are l...

Nursing Programs and Reflective Practice and Critical Thinking Connection

Developing Clinical Guidelines by Allen et al (1997) set out to determine the disparities that exist within the resolution process...

Leon Trotsky's Thinking on Nazi Rituals

for himself..." (Trotsky, 1933, p. 399). He says that a leader is "the individual supply to meet a collective demand" (Trotsky, 19...

Practices in Buddhism

wily, and often capitalize on the religions popularity. "For example, seats of power are often located near stupas (commemorative ...

Critical Review of Management and Ethics Texts

In five pages this paper examines the motivational and management techniques contained within The Power of Positive Thinking by No...