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'Good Life' and the Philosophies of Albert Camus, Rene Descartes, and Plato

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

American Democracy Legitimacy and Global Perceptions

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright chairs the Pew Centers ongoing series of worldwide public opinion surveys. O...

Equality Concept, Conflicting Ideology, and Thomas Jefferson

of true equality. Interestingly, both slavery and our early relations with Native Americans had an integral connection to t...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke on Individual Rights

make it legitimate? That question I think I can answer" (Rousseau, 1762). The philosophers answer is in fact the social contract....

Four Types of Social Provisioning in Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation

1944). During communal activity, such as feasts, dances and other occasions, the chief distributes gifts to all and the "overwhelm...

Geography According to Carl Sauer and Ellen Churchill Semple

of any academic evidence or science-based assertions inherent in early geographical studies. Instead, Sauer argues that this type...

Power Rises of Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin

and abundance" (Zagladin 262) but in reality "brought down on them terror and repression, and dragged the world into an era of blo...

Glass Fragility in Tennessee Williams' Play The Glass Menagerie

"real" (insofar as theater can ever be said to be real) happenings, but a carefully selected group of scenes that illustrate the i...

Overview of Fallibilist Foundationalism

fleeting presence, in that it fails to bring a body/mind awareness where the body acts as a sensory organ of the mind, which in tu...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Horse and His Rider' by Joanna Baillie

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

The Constitution and the Right to Private Property

with it responsibilities for the larger society in stating, "Property imposes duties. Its use should also serve the public weal" (...

Society and Freedom According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx

There would be less alienation, according to Marx. For Marx, Communism would be equated with freedom, despite the fact that for mo...

Men's and Women's Education and the Philosophy of Plato

people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...

19th and 20th Century Philosophies of John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, and Richard Rorty

Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...

Homosexuality and World Religions

represents a threat to those ideals is subject to punition" (Swidler). While the protection of womens morality is common throughou...

Rene Descartes and Thomas Aquinas on Knowledge

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

Slavery Ideology and Practice in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

quickly. It is true that in some of the Northern settlements, plantation managers preferred to use white indentured servants rathe...

Jenkins' and Massumi's Look at Popular Culture

let the media do what it wants. Another question looms large. How does politics invade the culture? It seems that today, politics ...

1960s America and Pop Art

of the bright lights of consumption" (Vincent 96). The art and artists that characterize the 1960s represented not simply a diver...

Shinto vs. Buddhism

West (pp. 8). But he also makes a statement that reflects the points to be covered in this report when he explains that each of th...

Toleration as Defined in 'A Letter Concerning Toleration' by John Locke

in order to ensure proper behavior among the worlds population, yet, Lockes critics asked who is to determine what this ethical co...

Christianity and Religion According to On Liberty and A Letter Concerning Toleration

of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...

Three Revolutionary Leaders Compared

lot about he character of this man who was a dominating force in the American Revolution. The French Revolution was bloodier, an...

Employment Relationship and the Kreps Model

work and less effort, ort may be in acts of sabotage and the creation of unrest in employees. The extreme reactions may be seen wh...

Responsibility According to John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

Human Nature According to Martin Luther King Jr. Albert Camus, and Elie Wiesel

4). More and more cases of ill people and dead rats keep turning up, urging Dr. Rieux and Castel to become more certain that wh...

Civil Disobedience and Philosophy

permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...

The Concepts of Justice and Truth in Cervantes' Don Quixote

Quixote does hold some hope for the future. Cervantes was also disgruntled with the political systems as well. Just as Don Quixote...

Kierkegaard on Human Nature

or that their lives are even close to resembling those of the first disciples?" (as qtd. in Galli, 2002, p.62). He poses a good qu...

A Community Health Plan for Obesity

goals and interventions which are compatible with those identified in "Healthy People 2010". Eight assessment parameters will be ...