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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...

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 ...

Causation and David Hume

More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...

Philosophy of Learning According to Seymour Papert

that Piagets theory of child development is "so simple that only a genius could have thought of it." Piaget, very simply, proposed...

Publius Case Study

retrieve the document, hed go to a directory kept on "a Publius-affiliated Web site" and then the "network itself would do the wor...

Comparing the Philosophies of Buddhism and Aristotle

by way of recognition toward such shortcomings that humanity could overcome this "profound error" (Nehamas, 1994, p. 40), diligent...

Contemporary Applications of Andrew Carnegie's Ideas

to devote a tremendous amount of effort in this criticism. Everyone holds blame equally in this phenomena. The poor criticize th...

Children and Science Education

of the cell in response to the light furnished by the microscope, while other structures attended to their biochemical duties that...

Developing a Personal Education Philosophy

the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...

World Diversity and Catholic Education

This is because the Church realizes that what individuals believe in regards to religion or morality is frequently contingent on t...

Overview of Incarceration

to incarceration, and how effective those are as well. But before we begin, there are a few things we need to address...

Balance of Philosophy and Nursing Values

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

Philosophical Perspectives on Terrorism

attacks were largely carried out by those fighting for their freedom from a corrupt system (the Russian Revolution) or for the fre...

Darden Restaurants

diversity and reward incentives as well. Darden -- A Background Based in Orland, Fla., Darden operates 1,300 restaurants t...

Role of Nursing and 4 Metaparadigms

The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...

Religion According to Martin Heidegger

between knowing a subject and that object of thought and he presents this as an artificial distinction in that the object that one...

Aristotle, Plato, and the Influence of Socrates

as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth ...

'Good Life' and the Philosophies of Albert Camus, Rene Descartes, and Plato

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

Auditors and Ethics

dealing with the actual philosophies and how they fit into the auditing profession. What well do, first of all, is define what it ...

Knowledge and Education According to the City States of Athens and Sparta and Philosophers Socrates and Plato

perception required for awareness is decidedly unique to human beings. Man looks upon his world as a direct reflection of him, hi...

Morality According to Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche

to understand the last mans comprehension of these notions, and why the last man is not able to create beyond himself, one has to ...

4 Questions on Philosophy, Hobbes and Peirce

power to enforce decisions (Lloyd, 2002). Hobbes also believed that an absolute monarchy was prefereable to other forms of govern...

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...

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...

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...

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...