YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Serving the Gods According to Socrates
Essays 1921 - 1950
in embracing a direct democracy. It is not feasible, even in Rousseaus time and place. Rousseau writes: "In every real democracy, ...
view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around. Good and evil are both active ...
humans in the natural world. As Kingsolver does in her essay "High Tide in Tucson," Snyder considers the fact that humans are part...
contributions to ethical and social theory" (Anonymous John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, 2002; MILL.HTM). In his work "Principles of ...
olds from low income families. The schools began opening up in the United States in 1910. In the 1920s however, because of their c...
the most essential points, only differing in subtle distinctions regarding the importance of interaction of individuals with socie...
they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...
Still, most Americans see themselves as free and voice their opinions loudly. What does this mean exactly? Is it the same freedom ...
that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...
on education and prevention, and on how individual and social systems work together in the "society" of the health care industry. ...
Paine disagreed and argued that all governments are bad and that only society is good but even he conceded that "governments are n...
siblings to be one of the "lucky" ones to go to the fair with him. The image is of a pretty, favored child. Walker next relates ...
homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...
motives of ambition -- it has no name in common use that I know of; let us call it timarchy or timocracy -- and then go on to ol...
to religion and instead evaluates religion solely on how well a particular form of religion serves the purposes of the state. Rous...
the sense of with aristocratic soul" (Nietzsche, 2002). This development occurred simultaneously with its polar opposite, by whic...
In particular, Wikholm (2002) cites the work of Karl Ulrichs and his descriptions of "men with an inborn attraction to other men."...
core of humanitys lack of individualism and blind willingness to be part of what he referred to as "the herd." In Nietzsches opini...
force themselves upon their wives for sexual favors, and they are not allowed by faith to molest them. The Torah and Talmud both ...
theory is brought forth numerous times throughout Aristotles well-read and well-quoted Nichomachean Ethics. Aristotles vie...
trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...
these theories are placed in, they are all based on the "proposition that the advanced cognitive processes of primates are primari...
examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...
Due to this orientation, not surprisingly, Locke saw education as extremely important. He felt that education should, ideally, be ...
2002). His theory states that an individual inherits a tendency to respond to the environment in a certain manner; however,...
shared roles and rules to make ourselves intelligible. In this sense self is a performance, and consciously or unconsciously we pr...
receive a portion of the financial gains that result from their ideas (OToole, 1995). Also, at Herman Miller, 100 percent of all f...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
the right objects, towards the right people, with the right motive and in the right way. He states in Book II, "The moral virtues,...
Augustine, himself, mentions his own difficulties in struggling to overcome his own lustful desires in Book III of Confessions. Du...