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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 ...

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...

Hitler's Motives for Using Wehrmacht According to Kershaw

In three pages the Holocaust is examined in this consideration of Kershaw's perspective regarding the Wehrmacht uses by Adolf Hitl...

Leadership According to Rudolph Guiliani

about something he knows. It is entitled Leadership. Giuliani does know about leadership as he has exemplified this numerous time...

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...

Relational Communication According to Julia Woods

category. Julia Woods (1995) theory of relational communication provides four primary categories of communication types. T...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Primary and Secondary Qualities According to Berkeley and Locke

the ways that we experience these objects. A table is solid; stars in the night sky are innumerable. Secondary qualities o...

Ethics and Religion According to Augustine and Aristotle

not make up an ethical life. Rather, he based his ideas on his own ideas concerning reason, but he did so within the context of hi...

Hospitality Industry According to Kluckhohn, Strodtbeck, and Hofstede

situations and how far they will go to create stability and masculinity/femininity, the extent by which society emphasizes asserti...

Cruelty According to Machiavelli

can look at contemporary examples to prove this point. For instance, there is something called an intervention in twelve step prog...

Claims According to EEOC Guidelines

means that a current or former employee has reported a possible violation of the law that falls under the EEOC umbrella (2002). Th...

The Happiness Key According to Aristotle

it" (Aristotle, 350 B.C.E., p. PG). Here he brings up the subject of lying, a principle in society that seems to be upheld. Certai...

Death According to Mitch Albom

he is also far removed from Judaism (Schulweis, 2001). Albom describes Morrie as a "spiritual mutt," having gleaned the makings f...

Earth and Heaven According to Dante Alighieri and Augustine of Hippo

tells the reader that all the Romans desired, and more, would actually be found in the City of God. This is not to say that moneta...

Interaction Between the Body and the Mind According to Baruch Spinoza

also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...

Myth According to Barthes

are added to language everyday. It helps to note also that fashion designers often take new trends from the street--such as the ba...

Christianity and Religion According to On Liberty and A Letter Concerning Toleration

of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...

Religion and its Origins According to Various Theorists

came about simply because it is true. Theories about Gods existence have been around for quite some time. There is Descartes proo...

Tacit Consent According to Socrates

the gods and sensible men, that you must worship it" (Plato, 51a). Therefore, Socrates clearly and evidently reveres the s...