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Democracy According to the Social Contract of Jean Jacques Rousseau

in embracing a direct democracy. It is not feasible, even in Rousseaus time and place. Rousseau writes: "In every real democracy, ...

Metaphysical Perspectives of Georges Bataille

teachings concerning the Void, which is expressed in the Upandishads and the Gita (Continuity/Discontinuity). From this viewpoint,...

Total Quality Management's Primary Elements

cultural appeal; how employees are expected to interact; what the organization symbolizes and how focused is everyone upon those v...

Hell as Envisioned by Dante

city until he thrusts her back again to Hell, From which she was first sent above by envy. Therefore I think and judge it best for...

Garcilaso de la Vega's Poetry and Love

as the vital key, where one sings to their beloved in life and after death, supporting themselves within a delicate and austere sc...

A Common Humanity of Raimond Gaita

Recovering "Serious" Morality Because of Gaitas clear willingness to address what most would refer to as the "hard issues," it sh...

Moral Reasoning Theories of Kohlberg and Piaget

It goes without saying that there exists an inherent difference in the aggressive tendencies of males and females. This differenc...

Magical Applications of the Legend of King Arthur

King Arthur was the only one who could have united all of England because he was the embodiment of the old and new ways. As such, ...

Symbolic Power, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault

he has been given far too much credit for the heroism of hundreds of other New Yorkers. Bourdieu and Symbolic Power According ...

Comparative Analysis of John Locke's and Thomas Hobbes' Theories

the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also...

Martin Buber and Abraham Maslow on Self Actualization

the need for love and the need for acceptance (The Life of Abraham Maslow, 2002). Then, at the very top of the ladder, were the s...

Reality Concept and Rene Descartes' Philosophy

until midmorning began as a result of his ill health (Gaukroger, 1997). The education he received here, which lasted until 1612 se...

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...

Comparison of Plato's and Machiavelli's Concepts

terms of a high human being, one may contend that it is the spiritual being--the priests, the rabbis, the ministers--who are reall...

Robin Casarjian's Forgiveness A Bold Choice for a Peaceful Heart

add page number]). If I do or say that hurts another person, especially someone I truly love, I am left with profound feelings of ...

Rene Descartes and Aristotle on Knowledge

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

Immanuel Kant on the World's Purpose

beautiful. However, how can one make such judgments without purpose? Why is something wrong? If there is no purpose to life no one...

Aristotle and Telos

were to consider what is most important in society, most would point to causation. One tries to get to the cause of ones drinking,...

Aristotle on Pride

who think that they are worthy of great things, but they are really unworthy of them, and that is pure vanity (PG). He goes on t...

Truth, the 'Examined Life,' and Socrates

new ideas. The body supplies the means by which knowledge can be attained, for it is necessary, according to Plato, for things an...

Colonial Age and Wilderness Literature

sailers would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us, for money, sassafras, furs, or love...when they departed, there remained ...

Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx on Individuality

the true nature of man and the meaning of individuality. In looking at Nietzsches works, one can see that he sees individuality a...

James Rachels on Morality

theorists equate it with the use of common sense. Again, it may be argued that homosexuality is not natural because the sexual org...

Humanity Formula of Immanuel Kant

other ends. Such an end might already exist, or might be something which the actor strives to bring about by his actions. In 4:428...

Aristotle on Virtue

one is virtuous, and that their actions are virtuous, but that might be illusive. Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right o...

Self Made Man Ideology

It was his lecture "Acres of Diamonds" that brought him to riches, though (Center for History and New Media, 2002). He was on a na...

Truth in the Works of Saint Augustine of Hippo and Jonathan Swift

on to reflect that the skins of women at home appear beautiful because we cannot see these small defects under normal circumstance...

Love as Perceived by Sigmund Freud

Freuds view on the emotion of love is really intertwined in his philosophy on human behavior as a whole. Peter Gays "The Freud Re...

Poverty and the Views of Plato

Indeed, one might readily surmise that Plato believed man was a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our igno...

Plato and John Stuart Mill on Social Freedom

interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...