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Essays 1891 - 1920
of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful" (NA). In this we see an incredibly humane approach, as well as a humane ...
keep order and lock up criminals and investigate injustices, but it is not governments job to tell the people how to live their li...
they established themselves in a small house in London. Pampinea then relates how the brothers scrimped and saved and started rebu...
close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...
Stuart Mill (that is, if they had been contemporaries). Both men believed that the greatest threat posed by democratic rule was in...
In eight pages this paper examines Mahatma Gandhi's life in an application of Aristotle's 'good life' concepts. Two sources are c...
here, but Platos position that it is necessary to experience a thing in order to have knowledge of it informs the reading of The R...
did not invent the principle of utility (which goes back to Plato) however, he was the first to devise a comprehensive theory base...
injustice...have no place" (2001). Hobbes argued that during this period in human development it was common experience that each m...
perfect, despite what we observe. Forms are beyond this material world, for nothing that we can grasp in this world is perfect."3 ...
Athens up as the shining example of democracy saying: "Let me say that our system of government does not copy the institution of o...
these theories are placed in, they are all based on the "proposition that the advanced cognitive processes of primates are primari...
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."...
a bad man or above humanity; he is like the Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one,whom Homer denounces- the natural outcast is forthw...
trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...
theory is brought forth numerous times throughout Aristotles well-read and well-quoted Nichomachean Ethics. Aristotles vie...
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...
shared roles and rules to make ourselves intelligible. In this sense self is a performance, and consciously or unconsciously we pr...
2002). His theory states that an individual inherits a tendency to respond to the environment in a certain manner; however,...
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 ...
Due to this orientation, not surprisingly, Locke saw education as extremely important. He felt that education should, ideally, be ...
of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...
they were wholly unaware of what those differences were expected to be. Conditions were different among those who had succe...
of Peace Research at the University of Oslo from 1969-77, during which period he also helped to found the Inter-University Centre ...
surface is quietly polite and cheerful as convention calls for, yet below the surface she is seething. She hates the fact that the...
with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...
inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, the only life worth living" (Frost, 1962, 84). As this de...