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Shusaku Endo's Deep River

just like their travel mates. As the plot unfolds, however, we find that these four have much more in common than they would care...

An Ethical Exploration

come forth (Honderich, 1995). The Epicureans and Stoics had played an important role in the philosophical tradition (1995). Epicur...

Analyzing Domestic and International Terrorism from a U.S. Perspective

perfected the art of terrorism. The Arab/Israeli conflict, gives a great example of this. Both groups of people are bound to disli...

Capitalism The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand

1986). Rands "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" (1986) was first published in 1962 and exemplified many of her philosophies of...

Philosophical Comparison of Benjamin Franklin and Henry David Thoreau

challenged mankinds very conscience. He retreated to Walden Pond in order to refresh his own character and to effectively remove ...

Moral Responsibility, Determinism, and Free Will

and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...

Medicine and Culture: Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England, West Germany, and France by Lynn Payer

between the patient and physician (technology, caring and values) are always present but may differ in balance. In addition, the r...

Social Contributions of Immanuel Kant

the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctrine of virtue. This is also further subdivided...

Effecting Societal ChangeTwo Approaches to Societal Change: Elshtain's “Democracy on Trial” and West's “Race Matters”

address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...

Life and Concepts of Karl Marx

that created a chasm between the haves and the "have nots." With people working for the government, and each getting an equal stip...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

Understanding What it Means to be a Social Justice Educator

individual who naturally believes in true equality and empowerment across the entire population. The reasons it becomes so confusi...

Worldly Circumstance and Moral Worth

wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs. A number of philosophers have contributed to the debate which...

Contemporary Machiavellianism

and "advisors" were, in many ways, far more powerful than the aristocrat holding office. Machiavelli himself was such a creature ...

21st Century and Henry David Thoreau

States and among philosophers in general. While this background was largely unnecessary from the perspective of many of the retre...

New Architectural Urbanism of Rob and Leon Krier

that they are reconstructions of a world that never quite existed...but whose beauty...seductiveness, lies precisely in that mixtu...

Hegel And Tocqueville

the Roman Empire. As such, it was a political power. Hegel seems to be suggesting that God can be Spirit only if the Triune God i...

American Telephone and Telegraph

subsidiary of American Bell, chartered to build and operate the original long distance telephone network" (A Brief history: Origin...

The Humanities

is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...

Three Philosophies: Utilitarianism, Libertarianism and Rawlsianism—Which Makes the Most Sense?

society, he would most likely act simply to benefit himself, but if he worked from behind a "veil of ignorance," in which he did n...

Motivation at GE

within the company and motivate it so it was targeted towards company goals. GE was criticized in the 1980s for having an unrespon...

Motivation at Starbucks

the lower order needs. Higher order needs are motivators such as the desire to belong, recognition, development and self actualiz...

JIT And Change

attacking any fundamental problems in the process that do not add value, establishing systems that will identify any problems, al...

William Bradford: History of Plymouth Plantation

the light of the gospel in our honorable nation of England...what wars and oppositions ever since, Satan hath raised, maintained a...

Overview of the TX Dept. of Criminal Justice

2002). The Department does not only hire correctional officers. There are a vast array of jobs that include: Correctional Officer...

Utilitarianism View of Prostitution

as a morally acceptable act from a Utilitarian point of view. Many philosophical and sociological questions loom over this issue...

A Case Study to Demonstrate Influences on the Delivery of Mental Healthcare

influences can be broken down into political, economic, social and technological. Political influences are one of the most importa...

THE TALIBAN, ITS MEANING AND ITS HISTORY

Afghanistan, and why it has such a blind hatred toward America -- and all things Western. Though we cant really come up with a sol...

Blake and Wordsworth

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...

Karl Marx and the Enlightenment & Kant’s Hope for the Future

not believe that we should be without kings, but that their power should be limited, "That Kings are not superiors to, but adminis...