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Yanomami According to Tierney and Chagnon

about marriage within the community. He also talks about the weather and nature and how the tribe deals with its surroundings. The...

Democracy According to Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

Morality According to Immanuel Kant and David Hume

the considerations surrounding his concepts of the mind and he supports his contentions with direct demonstrations of the applicab...

Truth According to David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Aristotle

discover) the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, propositions about the future seem problematic. If a...

Art According to Philosophers Descartes, Barthes, and Foucault

know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...

Past and Present Mythology According to Joseph Campbell

the work of all the worlds peoples from the beginning of time. These truths may be presented in the cultural context in which they...

Science and Art According to Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean Jacques Rousseau

Academy, and reconcile contempt for study with respect for the truly learned?" (NA). In many ways we can see a certain amount of h...

Moral Education According to Aristotle

the right objects, towards the right people, with the right motive and in the right way. He states in Book II, "The moral virtues,...

Lust According to Saint Augustine

Augustine, himself, mentions his own difficulties in struggling to overcome his own lustful desires in Book III of Confessions. Du...

Sentiment and Reason According to Adam Smith and Aristotle

existing moral standard. This fact should be kept in mind in understanding that for Aristotle whether a certain kind of behavior w...

Social Science Predictability According to Alexander Rosenberg

it is (L) that connects human behavior with the environment via "desires and beliefs" that the environment fosters in us (Rosenbe...

Whites and Blacks as ''Natural Enemies' According to David Walker

the oppression thrust upon them by an unyielding and self-appointed superior white race. Evolution has a significant amount to do...

Sex Tourism According to Cynthia Enloe

Western Europe cringe - is taken as just another day on the job by women in these countries. According to...

Self Identity According to David Hume

and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...

Equality and Liberty According to Such Social Theorists as Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx

Paine disagreed and argued that all governments are bad and that only society is good but even he conceded that "governments are n...

Revealing Self Through Writing According to Alice Walker

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 ...

Responsibility and Fate According to Greek Perceptions

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...

Democracy's Inferiority According to Plato

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...

Patient Stress Reduction According to Theories King, Johnson, and Neuman

on education and prevention, and on how individual and social systems work together in the "society" of the health care industry. ...

Race According to Charles R. Lawrence and John Stuart Mill

anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....

The Government According to Aristotle

that when things were fully developed, and had naturally reached their conclusion - or ending - they were simply following their n...

Dreams and Infantile Sexuality According to Sigmund Freud

humankind has devoted centuries to finding an explanation for the phenomenon of dreaming. Ancient man no doubt perceived dreams a...

Love According to Socrates in Symposium by Plato

that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....

Individual and Social Order According to Sigmund Freud

is less than advantageous for the individual. In better understanding this element, or connection, we present the following excerp...

Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ According to the Gospels of John and Mark

is believed that Johns Gospel was written much later than the other three and this could be one reason for the differences. Other ...

Dublin According to William Butler Yeats and James Joyce

this work many critics feel that Joyce gave Dublin a feminized gender. They assert that Joyces Dublin corresponds to Claudine Herm...

Sacrifice According to Herman Melville, Henrik Ibsen, and Shirley Jackson

one of the most essential elements of sacrifice, especially in a religious context, is that the action is performed willingly, and...

Barriers According to Gender

do not get the appropriate help they may need in respect to learning disabilities and things of that nature. Kleinfeld (1998) repo...

Imperialist Rome According to Classical Greek Opinion

one that was organic and holistic in which philosophy, politics, and literature were considered . . . Imperial Rome would prove th...

Mass Media's Impact on Society According to Postmodernism

the mass media has become one of the strongest players in that interaction. While many human traits are inherited genetically, ot...