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Theories Regarding Power and Knowledge

In nine pages this paper examines several theoretical perspectives regarding power and knowledge including 'Discipline and Punish'...

Sense Certainty According to Georg Hegel

sense of direction that otherwise would merely drift in subconscious thought, which also helps to apply a modicum of understanding...

Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management According to Drucker

In six pages the enhancement of organizational learning through knowledge management is examined through Drucker's perspectives. ...

3 Questions on Management

In 5 pages this paper answers management questions upon the customer service superiority of flatter organizations, employee motiva...

John Locke and Knowledge of the External Universe

In five pages this paper discusses the primary and secondary qualities illustrated through John Locke's example of the almond in a...

Knowledge of the World as Perceived by David Hume

In five pages this paper discusses Hume's knowledge of the world theory and his rejection of causality and induction. One source ...

Contraceptive Selection

and testes, the male reproductive system also includes the prostate gland, the scrotum and the urethra (Medical and Health: Reprod...

Edgar Allan Poe's Short Story Themes

In seven pages this paper examines knowledge, time, and truth in this thematic analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's stories 'The Balloon ...

God According to David Hume

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...

World Knowledge and the Mind

Know You Know? According to Waittenmaker (1999), research has demonstrated that it is an individuals background knowledge that ha...

Knowledge Analysis by David Hume

personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...

Literary Classics, Knowledge of Death and Religion

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

Reality Struggles of Rene Descartes, George Berkeley, and David Hume

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

A Review of Berkes' Perspectives on Ecology

very essence of what it means to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she d...

Locke vs. Descartes on Mind and Body

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

Reality and Knowledge and Descartes and Berkeley

think, therefore I am" (Frost 2550. From this Descartes reasoned a body of ideas that he did not believe could be disputed, as th...

'Without Prejudice' Correspondence Admissibility

1995, p. 20). In the case of Rush & Tompkins v. Greater London Council, "One issue in this appeal concerns the production t...

Holocaust and the Response of the United States

American public went on with their lives unaffected. It is interesting to note that Novick attributes more of the Jewish awarenes...

Comparing Platonism and Atomism

concerning change in the world. Although the methods of reasoning they used were not those of the modern scientific method, it is ...

Knowledge Types

A person from the Midwest who goes to college and comes to Manhattan for example, would not last a day in a dangerous neighborhood...

Knowledge, Domination, and Black Feminism

The impact of increasing knowledge on black women resisting domination are considered in this examination of evolving black femini...

Principles of Management

did think that workman demonstrated excellent work habits only spasmodically, which was why rules were needed (Boylan, 1995). The...

Epistemology and Descartes

might Descartes for example deal with the problem? A student writing on this subject will want to point out that the primary dilem...

God, Nature, and Human Knowledge and the Philosophies of John Locke and Rene Descartes

what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...

Comparison of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton

God had created an idyllic paradise for man, and it was only when a winged Satan invaded the peaceful calm and inflicted his exist...

The Tobacco Industry and Advertising

the segmented portions of society. Allenby (1998) is quick to caution those who jump too fast on the homogenous marketing bandwag...

Three Medieval Theologians on Knowledge and Love

if Charity is "something created in the soul" (Aquinas 17). Without background knowledge on this debate, his points become somewha...

Age and Its Impact Upon Learning Changes

address the process of age-related learning; Piaget, Erikson and Gesell stand out as three of the most influential. III. THE PROC...

Education, Arete or Virtue, and Plato

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

Knowledge of God According to Teresa of Avila and John Calvin

natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted in all men a certain understanding of his divine maje...