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Thinking about Philosophy

is nothing more than a bunch of people quarreling over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Instead, it helps people le...

Renaissance Humanism and Michelangelo’s Sculpture of David

and soul. II. Explanation of the Philosophy ? Fundamental Philosophical Tenets Renaissance humanism began as an intellectual m...

Public Finance

seem as appropriate today as when he wrote them. 2. Governmental Accounting and Non-Governmental Accounting Governmental and non...

Disney Theme Parks - International

be courteous, friendly and helpful (Naversen, n.d.). This may seem extreme but it is all part of the hospitality philosophy of exc...

Jean Paul Sartre's Existentialism Revealed in His Play No Exit

difficult to define as it is a philosophy that originated with one philosopher (Kierkegaard) but has been embraced by a good numbe...

Kant, Utilitarianism and Consequentialism

every objection. What is perhaps striking is that Mills theory is applicable to a variety of situations. Unlike Kant for ex...

Atlantico and River Beverages Accounting

they bear responsibility for the budget advice they produce. The division manager reviews this budget but cannot make changes, ma...

State According to John Rawls and Jean Jacques Rousseau

of each association, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before...

3 Epistemology Articles Evaluated

the idea that indeed, there is something that is true and real. Whether or not individual human beings know what that is, is besid...

Theology and the Impact of the Enlightenment

As things now stand, much is lacking which prevents men from being, or easily becoming, capable of correctly using their own reaso...

Justice and Self Interest Philosophies

when it is expressed as a love of virtue, and justice when it is considered as one of many virtues. For Hobbes, self-interest "ta...

Jesus Christ and Friedrich Nietzsche

from a degree of torment, the sources of our greatest joys lying awkwardly close to those of our greatest pain" (De Botton 215). ...

Twenty First Century Early Childhood Education Personal Philosophy

lesson is severely hampered. The role that critical thinking plays within the early childhood teaching community is one tha...

Philosophy of Education by Jean Jacques Rousseau

tangled when one relies on the system to teach. In fact, when examining contemporary life, one can see that a large compliant abou...

Philosophy and Logos

persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Stevens' Philosophy

in a firm that specialized in antitrust lawsuits ("John Paul Stevens," 2006). In 1970, Stevens was appointed by President Nixon to...

Three Questions in Philosophy

humans, it is not necessarily the best thing to do. Kant also supports a categorical imperative principle which suggests that some...

An Ethical Model for Teaching

AIDS education is something tied to a disease that has only surfaced at the end of the twentieth century and may have no relevance...

Plato's Philosophy and Criticisms

thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...

Perfectly Virtuous Medieval City

to be happy, but to be happy he has to know what happiness is and how to achieve it (Alfarabi, p. 35). Here we come to the idea of...

Three Essays on Philosophy and Ethics

made to render the greatest happiness for the greatest number. That is all that utilitarianism is equated with. There are differen...

Enlightenment Philosophy and Religion

belief, but at the "priests and their stupid or hypocritical instruments . . we shall think of them only to pity their victims and...

Proactive Approaches to Street Racing and Underage Drinking

is bothersome to the point of creating fear and ask for their help in reaching a resolution. From this interactive encounter, the...

Al Qaeda and Bin Laden's Hacker Terrorism Models

term. He points out that "There is no organized body of legislation one might call the law of terrorism, and there is no inherent ...

Friendship Breakdown, Morality, and Logic

friends, but whose definition of "friendship" differs. For instance, person A strongly believes that trust is an essential element...

Capitalism and the Philosophy of Karl Marx

they realize that they may not be able to survive. They only have to come up with the money because an old, poor friend married a ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Spirituality

the individual. For one to realize his best self he had to first discover himself and to learn to trust himself. He believed in ...

Education Philosophies and Quote Interpretations

fine, but teaching them what counts is best." This quote, which includes a clever play on words, suggests a very practical approac...

Hegel, Phenomenology and Existentialism

the use of the term "existentialism" as a term to describe a "distinctly human mode of being" (Honderich, 1995, p. 259). Phenom...

Freedom Views of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes

say that while the theorists do each embrace the same explanation as to why political authority must exist, they do not agree on w...