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Evil Resistance

which is violence. In regarding the worlds political climate today, we are meeting this challenge correctly: with violence. The ...

Lev Vygotsky's Educational Theories

of achieving either on his own, with the aid of a teacher, or with the help of another more accomplished peer.(Zone, 2002). The st...

Considerations on France by Joseph de Maistre

his own mind is anarchy. "The churches are closed, or opened only for the noisy discussions and drunken revels of a frenzied peopl...

Concept of the Divine Right Of Kings

to Grotius more humane perspective was that of Jacques-Benigne Bossuets, who "reinforced medieval notions of kingship in his theor...

Humanism and Educational Philosophy

done right and what potentially could go wrong, in the end one has to choose the model or models that most closely resemble ones o...

Inability to Ever Justify Cheating

to properly identify herself surely saved lives. In the hypothetical situation at hand, there is no heroism, so it would be diffic...

Philosophy, Art and Literature During the Time of the Civil War

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

America's Civil War, Literature, and Art

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

Alienation in The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Without the pressures of the capitalist system, Marx was of the opinion that work could make a valuable contribution to the labour...

Are Principles Chosen or Inherited?

the society and, subsequently, from the self. Sartres concept of alienation was certainly different from Marxs. Of course, Mar...

Divine Justice and Fate Reflected in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and Inferno by Dante Alighieri

poem makes it clear that the human soul can only enjoy a happy eternity by pledging complete faith and allegiance in God, Boccacci...

Saint Augustine of Hippo and Plato's Influence

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

Jacques Louis David's Painting, Jean Jacques Rousseau's Philosophy and Duty to the State

from a state of freedom to a willingness to submit to the states authority? This is the underlying question in the majority of hi...

A Report on Anheuser-Busch

well for nearly a century. There appears to be no need for the company to change many of its organizational structures now that it...

Workplace Equity

workplace issues and discrimination are at the forefront. There are of course laws that protect against discrimination in terms of...

Socrates' Life and Relevance

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...

United States and Ethnic Conflict

the capitalist system which emphasizes individuality over community and competition over cooperation. Areas that were once ...

Freedom According to Tacitus

This paper will also analyze whether Tacitus was correct in his belief that judiciary freedom was ruined in the presence of the em...

Thoreau, Pieper, and Plato on What Philosophy Is

when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." And, for 20th century Catholic theologian Josef Pieper (1904-97), Gods role in...

Natural Law and Jeremy Bentham

it was necessary to develop an account of human nature....

Skepticism Philosophy

(2000) presents his argument, his thesis, in stating that "I want to raise and examine the possibility that, however much we came ...

Individual's Personal Duty to Country

no matter how insignificant or trite they may seem. However, it would seem that he believed that there were at least two types of ...

'Will to Power' and the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

identifies Schopenhauers most distinctive contribution to philosophy as his "insistence that Will is more basic than thought to bo...

Ancient Greece and Education

In five pages this research paper discusses education in ancient Greece with a consideration of the systems in Sparta and Athens a...

Why Socrates 'Did' Philosophy According to J.S. Mill

In four pages John Stuart Mill's views on why philosophy was 'done' by Socrates are examined in a consideration of the ancient Gre...

Comparison of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover

In seven pages this paper examines these two U.S. presidencies in terms of individual philosophies and the impact the Great Depres...

Political Philosophy of Socialism

In five pages this paper examines the economic impact of the political philosophy socialism on Eastern and Western Europe. Four s...

Post Second World War Global Affairs and U.S. Government Philosophies

and that it matters little whether the person filling that office can be moral or has any acceptable level of personal integrity, ...

Benjamin Cardozo's Growth of the Law

In nine pages legal philosophy is examined within the context of Benjamin Cardozo's book which was first published in 1924. Three...

Hayekian and Keynesian Economic Theoretical Comparison

In thirty pages savings and investment are examined in a comparative consideration of these 2 economic philosophies and includes t...