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Unity, Being, and Becoming According to the Philosophers

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

Analyzing the Orientalism of Edward Said

their own power and superiority. There was no real learning about the culture on the part of the Westerners, but rather a sense o...

Australia and Socialism

Yet its implied here. In most western nations (especially democratic and somewhat socialist nations), its implied that when a popu...

Johnson, Plantinga, and Hicks on Soul Making and Free Will

man defines himself as moral, good, and soulful (Hick). God has defined a purpose for humanity that is essential to mans forma...

Anthony Rotundo's American Manhood

be a norm, whether one is discussing a Marmot or a Human. However, that being said, of course, there is a lot more going on in the...

Thomas Paine's Political Propaganda

he inspired two nations. Kindig (2003) summarizes that Paine: "communicated the ideas of the...

Knowledge, Sensation, Plato and Rene Descartes

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

False Advertising and Ethical Issues

(Romans & Kiernan, 2002). Of course, that is debatable. Opinion enters the picture, but if a claim can be proven false, then one c...

A Review of Staffing the World

are quite remarkable. The company was founded in Detroit in 1946 by William Russell Kelly (1905 - 1998) and was known as...

US' Diminishing Democracy

freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...

The Social Role of Women and Auguste Comte

the basis for an advanced society" (p. 229). She quotes from Comtes Cours de philosophie positive (published in 1855) and explains...

Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto

Nerdinger (1999) states that the fact that the Workers Club was modeled on the Doges Palace in Venice -- "albeit with Doris column...

Libertarianism's Pros and Cons

prompts. Of course, this is really not a good reason to outlaw the substance. The society also claims that pot is a gateway drug a...

Iron Giant Cartoon, Humanity, Personal Choices, and the Philosophies of David Hume, William Blake, and John Locke

giant metal man falling into the sea. Hogarth is the only one that believes him and rushes away to search in likely places for the...

Ruling Passions by Simon Blackburn and an Expressivism Analysis

therefore the foundation for human behavior and motivation. Expressivism as a moral philosophy is however flawed, as are m...

Comparative Analysis of Spinoza's Dual Monism and Rene Descartes Mind and Body Interactionism

having been created by a supreme and ethereal being, whose own creation is inherent to that of all He created. Based upon his def...

Confucius and Aristotle Compared

and deficiency (McCartt, 2003). Moral virtue also follows this pattern, although in this regard Aristotle refers to it as the "Go...

'Victimless' Crime and Prostitution

are again those degrees where one is not sure. There are indecency laws where performers have been arrested. They went too far sex...

Seneca's Stoicism

denominator among all mortals. Growing old is an inevitable stage of life that many people fight tooth and nail; for others, howe...

A Mock-Autobiography of Carl Jung

was always important within my family, and therefore my father taught me Latin and many ancient languages (Bair 2003). School bor...

Moral Considerations of Philippa Foot

non-hypothetical, because she is operating on the belief that non-hypothetical and imperatives cannot co-exist. This would seem to...

'Nature' as Perceived by Ralph Waldo Emerson

concept of viewing Nature as if for the first time, as a child does, is also emphasized, because Emerson believes that the end of ...

Scientific Knowledge Foundations

and bring the concept back to reality, most people know someone who gets wonderful grades in school, but does not have a lick of c...

Elementary Students and Alternative Assessments

are nothing more than a type of achievement test which primarily measures knowledge of standard English and exposure to the cultur...

State's Role and Economic Liberalism

economic system. In other words, this economic liberalism (also known as neo-liberalism) claims that markets function best when th...

The Ideas of Zygmunt Bauman

used frequently, under a number of definitions and toward a multiplicity of areas, from art to literature. After establishing wha...

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

womens lives were a measurement in comparison to these male priorities and values. The life of a woman, in other words, was that ...

Modernity and Fashion's Role

consumerism bred upon itself (Finkelstein, 2004). It attracted mainly young men who were educated by the state "into believing in...

Aristotle and Plato on Knowledge

subject of forms. While Plato held a dual realms theory, Aristotle saw form and matter as existing in the same realm. In discussi...

A History of Temperament Theories

1995; Classical Astrology, 2003). If the person were healthy, there was a balance among these fluid substances (Heineman, History,...