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leadership, leaders must make a committed examination of the particular context in which they operate. For this reason, it is diff...

gain battles, but it is a great element of success."3 That is, while armament increases a commanders chances of winning a battle, ...

to end in failure. This paper will explore the pursuit of happiness in the context of the balance between two traditional extremes...

Indeed, he questions the value of empiricism itself, stating that one can "never have a total view of any object" (Nicoletti, 1994...

"endowed with special grace or powers" (Christian, 2008). It is easy to understand how such claims are perpetuated and reinforced:...

to explore the views of human nature of Plato and other thinkers, as well as how these views were expressed in governmental form. ...

from Japanese director Yasujiro Ozus 1949 masterpiece Late Spring, there are two cutaway shots that feature a beautiful vase. Thes...

with one another and with figures of authority in order to maximize the best interests of each individual. When left without a cen...

as a bridge so that people with different understandings can nevertheless come to understand and appreciate one anothers views. ...

view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...

of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...

in Pauls company is an older man, Katczinsky, a man who has a family back home. He perhaps serves as something of a strong foundat...

force in this particular body of the state. The army did not only serve as our armies do today, but also as simple police forces t...

can help to guide the decision making and create a firm foundations that will help to ensure that the outcomes are the best possib...

"the agent ought to promote the self above other values" (Moseley, 2006). This is not as ugly as it sounds: it goes all the way ba...

demands that change should take place in order for all students, regardless of ethnic or racial background, to feel that they are ...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...

of these seemingly paradoxical perspectives on the nature of society and the role of the individual in society. Plato appears to ...

duties of men" (Craik 5). Craik argued that women already had a position, a role, and a work-based duty, that was the underpinnin...

certainty. I might as well take a shower. I hurried, in an effort to at least reduce the amount of time I would walk into the door...

of personal self-determination and responsible freedom that the realities of modern life and institutions seem to deny" (11). In t...

However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...

and 3. Chinas policy towards the Soviet Union and its leaders as opposed to those it formulated in regard to the U.S. and its lea...

those resources. The latter culture, that associated with the fur trade, is of particular interest when discussing the developmen...

What comes out of a courtroom is not necessarily truth, but which side argues best. The Sophists prided themselves on the use of p...

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

their own power and superiority. There was no real learning about the culture on the part of the Westerners, but rather a sense o...

of power and influence as change came to the western civilization(s). Within each region discussed by Spielvogel we see differe...

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...