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The Difference Between Human and Non-Human Animals

way they are like human beings who are mentally handicapped. Animals have souls and are loving and lovable, but they do not have t...

The Souls of Black Folk

work one can gain a sense of this condition: "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking ...

Descartes' Second Meditation

what state they are in. Here, Descartes distinguishes the mind from the soul. He writes: "It further occurred to me that I was nou...

Mainstream Society, Underground Music, and African American Culture

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

William Greider's The Soul of Capitalism

their world, aimlessly moving along all for the sake of material wealth and perhaps position in society. In addition, one of the m...

Five Foreign Films on Social and Religious Identity

In five pages this research paper considers religious and social identities in such films as Omar Gatlato, My Son the Fanatic, Fea...

Prince Arjuna and the Advice of Lord Krishna

Arjuna sees "fathers and grandfathers, maternal uncles, brothers, sons and grandsons, comrades and friends, father-in-laws and tea...

Belief in the Gods and Plato's Practice of Open Inquiry

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

Ethical Filtering

to fulfill this duty, "healthcare CFOs must be uncompromising in their adherence to the highest ethical standards" (Stango, 2006)....

Phillips/Socrates Cafe

pundits or the mainstream media happen to be handing out at the moment. This is a process that rekindles a "child-like--but by no ...

Hardin's Theory of the Commons and the Failure of the Kyoto Accords

and no one can use it. Hardin goes beyond this simple example to consider other serious problems in light of this theory; he incl...

Silko/Setting in Ceremony

the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to conve...

Trade and Exchange as Stimulus for Change in England

we can argue there were some major influences and drives that shaped the industrial revolution and the development of the cotton g...

Thomas Aquinas and Plato on Justice

virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...

A BCG Matrix Analysis of Apple

matrix we can see that there are four categories based on four main assumptions regarding the behaviour and attractiveness of the ...

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...

Eroding Shoreline Mitigation

and development often clashes with the progress of natural systems. In the end, the ocean will not be changed, it will choose the...

Socrates and Plato on Wisdom

because it is supposed to produce truth in the end. The essence of this method is a process that usually begins with Socrates ask...

Global Branding And Global Brands

a few years ago. Consumers are not as willing to accept a brand if the company itself does not have a clean record. Creating a gl...

Performance Appraisals In The Public Sector

of managerial and employee strengths/weaknesses and the strategy required for improvement. The degree a performance assessm...

Jesus And Moses - Comparison

men" (Jeffrey, 1990). Each taught a new truth as commanded by God, each performed miracles, both spent their childhoods in Egypt, ...

Active Euthanasia: Preferable To Passive Euthanasia

Terri Schiavo situation, which has once again sparked heated debate over the legality and ethical nature of euthanasia, illustrate...

Plato's Apology/Capital Punishment & Academic Freedom

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

Charles Peirce's Account Of Truth And Reality In "How To Make Our Ideas Clear"

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

The Influence of the Cave Allegory

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

Why Is Power Productive For Foucault?

who went before, without any question as to why things are accomplished in any certain order, the time for the Enlightenment symbo...

Plato's "Gorgias" - Positions Of Socrates And Callicles

cast them as slaves of the elite. This action of stripping an individuals inherent rights as a human being can be nothing other t...

Baptism And Ablution

ritual in pagan religions for the purpose of purifying oneself (Barnes 2000). Although the term baptism is not found in the Old ...

Ancient Greek Philosophers

Aristotles concrete, scientific theories are more relevant than Platos deductive and abstract ideology. Aristotle believed...

Mikes Bikes Simulation Scenario

cost drivers for the business (Thompson, 2005). The company in the Mikes Bikes scenario wishes to maintain quality as the same t...