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Essays 1981 - 2010

Alcohol According to Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass

playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddling, dancing, and drinking whisky; and this latter mode of spending the time was...

Freedom According to Michel Foucault

for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...

Nature and Biology According to Aristotle

Aristotle also proposed that the "idea of a perfect statue" is already in the marble and that the marble itself seeks to realize ...

Culture and Criticism According to Matthew Arnold

original composition, rather than critiquing others, their time would be much better employed. Wordsworth said that "A false or ma...

Belief and Knowledge According to Plato

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

'Banal Nationalism' According to Michael Billig

they were wholly unaware of what those differences were expected to be. Conditions were different among those who had succe...

Peace and Violence According to Johan Galtung

of Peace Research at the University of Oslo from 1969-77, during which period he also helped to found the Inter-University Centre ...

The Creation of Wealth According to Adam Smith and His 'Invisible Hand'

point is that to Smith, individuals must have the incentive to work. Some argue that during the latter part of the twentieth centu...

Existence According to George Berkeley

in front of me and a keyboard at my fingers. Is the movement of my fingers real as I type these words? The possibility that perh...

Happiness and Virtue According to Aristotle and Plato

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

Justice, Politics, and Knowledge According to Hobbes and Plato

Essentially, the allegory likens those who remain unaware of forms to prisoners chained in a cave, and they cannot turn their head...

Objective and Formal Reality According To Descartes

capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice According to Dorothy Van Ghent

surface is quietly polite and cheerful as convention calls for, yet below the surface she is seething. She hates the fact that the...

The Republic by Plato and Justice According to Socrates

with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...

Morality and Reason According to Plato, Socrates, and Sigmund Freud

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...

'What Is' According to Parmenides

conceived of without thought. Therefore, it was necessary to transform reality into an object or thought, which further distingui...

Stadier and Confiniums According to Soren Kierkegaard

sweet unto me" (II, I). It seems that Augustine wants to review the past in order to share the journey to the present, and to rem...

Civic Participation According to Schudson

changes in the law, and ... by responses to developments in Europe" (Barone, 1998, p. 92). In the early years of the nation, acco...

Psychology and the Effects of Dreams According to Sigmund Freud

time, as well as from his genius. Background on Freud and his era Freud was just over 40 when he conceived of writing this text,...

Power and Policy According to C. Wright Mills

the vast majority to follow in the powerful minoritys lead. The concept of a rational society, one in which the entire comm...

Dreams According to Adler and Freud

Freud did have a tremendous influence over Adlers (1936) dream theory to some extent - to such a degree that Adler (1936) was "one...

The Types of Power According to Amitai Etzioni's Framework

and commitment to the organizations ideology is brought about through persuasive and suggestive power. Employees internalize the o...

Human Existence, Civilization, and Philosophy According to Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx

would be no hope of redemption or change. Frankl supports this position by contending that mans search for meaning "is the primar...

Culture and History According to Robert Darnton

and even relates a psychoanalytical view of the story of "Little Red Riding Hood." Darnton does this to demonstrate how a psychoa...

Science According to the Poems of Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe

1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...

Rwandan Genocide According to Gourevitch

about 15 percent of the population, they are the educated people who are in superior positions both politically and socially. As ...

Ethics and Morality According to Martin Luther King Jr. and William Blake

him from within and turns him into a murderer. Blakes Songs of Experience have been described as an "unforgettable condemnation of...

Property According to John Locke

because although God has given man great riches, he has limited it: "The same law of nature, that does by this means give us prop...

Predestination and Free Will According to St. Augustine

That system is based on three principals: 1. God is absolute Master, by His grace, of all the determinations of the will; 2. man ...

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...