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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...

Life and Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...

Overview of Homeopathic Medicine

a natural and interactive manner, while at the same time working toward prevention. While the Medical Association has typically h...

Pragmatic Philosophy of William James

of moral responsibility, freedom of action, individual effort and aspiration" (Frost, 1962, p. 50). While a pure empiricist wou...

Comparing Synoptic Gospels with Plato's The Republic A COMPARISON OF: THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO AND THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS

knowledge which is only knowable and obtainable without the aide of the senses. Secondly, the Synoptic Gospels speak as Christ b...

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...

'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...

Euthanasia and Medical Ethics

such morality, we render ourselves essentially useless. In other words, Lachs contends that it is one thing to expound about the ...

Education Philosophies

individual study has its place. I think there needs to be a balance in the curriculum, although, I do agree with Deweys integratio...

'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...

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...

B.C. Johnson's Philosophy

to the theist these two elements are not inherently intertwined with one another. The baby did burn in the fire and the baby will...

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...

Crime and Punishment and Philosophy

was important to history, especially at a time when the slave trade was prominent in the New World. [2] Think about Martin Luther...

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...

Detailed Analysis of Plato's Cave Allegory

(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...

Comparative Analysis of Aristotle and Plato's Philosophies

that there is just one objective right way of doing things and on the other hand, there are many truths, is an enormous difference...

Augustine and Plato

Victorinus by Plato. This seems to have moved Augustine from the point of simply musing about immortality into an assurance about ...

Public Administration Evolution

be studied scientifically in order to derive the most rational, economic and efficient means of administering policy. The form is...

Looking at Empiricism and Rationalism

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

The Radical Nature of the American Revolution

This researech paper offers a comprehensive examination of the ideas that preceded the American Revolution, such as the concepts p...

The Teaching Profession from a Philosophical Position

teachers beliefs, principles, convictions and interpretation of reality are all pertinent. They influence the students and so it i...

Philosophy and Metaphysics

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

God's Existence and Morality

course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...