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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...

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...

Free Will and Liberty According to David Hume

this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...

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...

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...

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...

Women and Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville

Stuart Mill (that is, if they had been contemporaries). Both men believed that the greatest threat posed by democratic rule was in...

Citizenship According to Plato and Aristotle

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...

Democratic Rule According to Niccolo Machiavelli, Aristotle, and Plato

influential thinkers of the ancient age. Despite their obvious inter-related lives, they still had significantly differing opinio...

Ethics According to John Stuart Mill and Mo Tzu

did not invent the principle of utility (which goes back to Plato) however, he was the first to devise a comprehensive theory base...

Merger of Democracy and Imperialism According to Pericles

Athens up as the shining example of democracy saying: "Let me say that our system of government does not copy the institution of o...

'State of Nature' According to John Locke and Thomas Hobbes

injustice...have no place" (2001). Hobbes argued that during this period in human development it was common experience that each m...

Forms According to the Theories of Aristotle and Plato

perfect, despite what we observe. Forms are beyond this material world, for nothing that we can grasp in this world is perfect."3 ...

God According to David Hume

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...

The Ideal Constitution According to Aristotle

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 ...

Goodness of Government According to Niccolo Machiavelli and Aristotle

theory is brought forth numerous times throughout Aristotles well-read and well-quoted Nichomachean Ethics. Aristotles vie...

The Self Sufficient Man According to Aristotle

a bad man or above humanity; he is like the Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one,whom Homer denounces- the natural outcast is forthw...

Philosophy According to Rene Descartes and Plato

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Benjamin Constant

keep order and lock up criminals and investigate injustices, but it is not governments job to tell the people how to live their li...

Sex and Gender According to Pampinea in Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

they established themselves in a small house in London. Pampinea then relates how the brothers scrimped and saved and started rebu...

Love According to Plato

close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...

Leadership According to Kathleen Sanford and Max DePree

receive a portion of the financial gains that result from their ideas (OToole, 1995). Also, at Herman Miller, 100 percent of all f...

Liberty and Autonomy According to Immanuel Kant

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

Self According to Harold Garfinkel and Erving Goffman

shared roles and rules to make ourselves intelligible. In this sense self is a performance, and consciously or unconsciously we pr...

Personality's Biological Basis According to British Psychologist Hans Eysenck

2002). His theory states that an individual inherits a tendency to respond to the environment in a certain manner; however,...

Education and Human Development According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke

Due to this orientation, not surprisingly, Locke saw education as extremely important. He felt that education should, ideally, be ...

Intelligence According To Machiavelli

these theories are placed in, they are all based on the "proposition that the advanced cognitive processes of primates are primari...

Good and Bad, Good and Evil According to Friedrich Nietzsche

the sense of with aristocratic soul" (Nietzsche, 2002). This development occurred simultaneously with its polar opposite, by whic...

Sexuality According to Constructionist and Essentialist Perspectives

In particular, Wikholm (2002) cites the work of Karl Ulrichs and his descriptions of "men with an inborn attraction to other men."...

Reasons for Punishment According to Friedrich Nietzsche

core of humanitys lack of individualism and blind willingness to be part of what he referred to as "the herd." In Nietzsches opini...