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Essays 1951 - 1980

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...

Economic or Political Foundation for International Law

and less important, as seen with both Ancient Greeks as well as the ancient Chinese (Bederman, 1979). As the world has developed f...

Political Agendas of the Islamic Salvation Front

is to save people from governmental interference, they view themselves as "sovereign citizens" (Freeh, 1998, p. PG) who have the i...

Detailed Analysis of Plato's Cave Allegory

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

Rational Theory, Science, and Political Science

the idea of introducing the idea of rational choice theory into the study of political science (Anonymous, 2000). Rational choice ...

Political, Religious, and Social Sculpture

after it was moved to the Piazza della Signoria. The reason this particular point is so greatly argued is because of the glaring ...

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 ...

'The World's Oldest Profession' as a Degradation of Women

degrading 5. Throughout history we have evidence of right versus wrong; of morality versus immorality 6. In this way, it...

Major Political Parties and the Effects of 2001's Combating Terrorism Act Introduction

from legalizing drugs to allowing prostitution. The party is even neutral when it comes to international politics. Hence, it is a ...

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...

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...

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...

U.S. American Peace Organizations and Activities

a larger number of people were appraised of the issues. Understanding who these past groups were allows one to adequately compare...

Political Comparison of Mexico, Japan, and Germany

a successor coalition government, Japans first minority government in close to 40 years (Japan, 2003). Hata resigned in less than ...

Jacobs, Marmor and Oberlander's The Political Paradox of Rationing and the State Health Plan of Oregon

subject of rationing health care. The authors look at the years 1989 through 1995 and laws which were put in place in Oregon to ad...

NEPA and the Political Climate That Led to its 1969 Passage

In seven pages this paper examines the passage of the National Environmental Protection Act from a public policy analytical perspe...

Political Socialization and Its Major Agents

mass media, school and peers are "major agents of political socialization." Family Lundblad (2004) describes two of her "de...

Augustine and Plato

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

Southern Hemisphere's Political Economy and America's War on Drugs

some headway during the 1990s, something that caused investment to increase (2002). The state of affairs in not surprising. In the...

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...

Machiavelli's Beliefs and Modern Political Relevance

concern the ultimate goal or greater good." In essence, he is arguing, according to Oldham, that the end justifies the means and t...

Socrates and Niccolo Machiavelli on Political Education

ground, whether that is through dialectical discourse or reason (1994). Barber claims that neither approach leaves any room for po...

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...

Congress and the Function of Political Parties

aspect is further argued by one author who indicates that, "In America, the national parties play a relatively limited role in ele...

The Color Purple Film and Political Science

in. They were not offered many opportunities because of political practices and as such we are given such characters as Whoopi Gol...

Political Systems Comparison

coercion is prevalent (British Library, 2003). However, big business has become so big and capital has become so concentrated in f...

Nursing and Health Care Political Issues

the same sort of indirect methods that they have advocated will aid the economy. For example, the Republicans are pursuing putting...

Looking at Drug Testing Philosophically

trust the individuals in the position, or is a drug test needed? Utilitarianism supports the idea that the greater good is what i...