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Concepts of Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Immanuel Kant

de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...

Proust and Descartes Regarding Identity

This research report looks at the ideas of these two philosophers through written works. Other works are explored such as those by...

The Age Of Paradox

This writing by Charles Handy is explored. The idea of paradoxes are discussed in this six page paper that also looks at how to ma...

A Case for World History Textbook Inclusion of Nostradamus

In a paper consisting of 7 pages an argument supporting the inclusion of Nostradamus in textbooks on world history is made for his...

Taylor and Bradstreet, Two Puritan Poets

Puritans have a dour, unsympathetic reputation, so the idea of Puritan poets may seem rather odd. However, that faith tradition pr...

The Lack of Efficacy Among Female Private Abolitionists

This paper examines the idea of private abolitionists among southern females during slavery in the US. The author contends that t...

Dreaming and Descartes' First Meditation

of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...

Marx's and Plato's 'Just' Society

he means that this should apply to the average politician. Certainly, wisdom is seen as including morality. In terms of knowledge ...

Analyzing the Video The Miracle of Life

Each transition flows seamlessly into the next. Clearly, the main point of this video is to detail the development process, and...

Transforming Knowledge and Effective Writing

reader, but it is not likely if the writing is dry or bland. One has to wonder weather or not bland writing is sufficient or just...

Nature and Biology According to Aristotle

Aristotle also proposed that the "idea of a perfect statue" is already in the marble and that the marble itself seeks to realize ...

Tibetan Buddhism and Gandhi's Satyagraha

BC and embarked on numerous expansionist campaigns. He later turned to Buddhism and, repenting of his earlier policies of violent ...

Bill Clinton's American Images

there are different views and images of America. Many take their images from their childhood. What is it like to grow up in Americ...

Terrorism War's Cost and the Dilemma of George W. Bush

Quaeda is not dependent on the continued existence of its leader. Even if allied forces were able to capture bin Laden tomorrow, ...

The Russian Revolution Historical Milestone

centuries. It was an autocracy with Tsar Nicholas II of the Romanov dynasty in command. However, Nicholass reign was beset by in...

Ivan Ilyich and Socrates

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...

Was Eliminating the Glass Steagall Act a Good Idea?

have addressed, Glass-Steagall served to establish financial regulations on banks, namely deposit insurance and a separation of co...

The Independence of the Central Bank

1999). Thus, the central bank is most generally more anti-inflation than democratic governments. There are both advantages and di...

Promotion by Favoritism

Go and Kleiner use the example of promotions given to employees with "organizational connections" (Go and Kleiner, 2001). In such ...

Principals' Accountability and Test Scoring

Leithwood, Louis, Anderson and Wahlstrom (2004) reviewed literature focusing on public school principals to identify the traits of...

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Chatterleys Lover we have the story of a man who is incapacitated from the waist down and thus will never be able to make love to ...

The Subjects of Virtue and Beauty

2003). Restating that: sentiment is beauty and virtue; and if the sentiment we feel when we see beauty is instinctive approval, ...

Analyzing Universal Doubt

known. Basically, Descartes questions whether or not someone is dreaming. If one is dreaming, they sometimes believe that they are...

It's Not Luck by Eli Goldratt

processes and also shows their practicality in hypothetical real-life situations. The following examination looks at Goldratts t...

Paranormal and Pseudoscience

the Bible is nothing more than myth! We must acknowledge, of course, that from a Biblical perspective the world is viewed f...

A Keynesian Economics' Consideration

less fortunate. However, economists like Keynes realize that government policy can encourage growth in business or discourage it. ...

Critiquing Peter Senge's Leadership and Learning

basis of his concept pf learning is that we are gradually taught or learn not to learn. Senge quotes Deming when looking organisat...

Ideals of Plato and Contemporary Education

employee believes a child is abused, they must call the authorities. If a child has a fight in school, the latest trend is to file...

A Comparison of Gandhi and Machiavelli

are implications in relation to political leaders and others who rule. Clearly, Machiavelli sees politicians differently than he s...

Disabled Students

prevent those from receiving the special attention they need. Contrary to that opinion is how full inclusion will serve to drasti...