Essays 31 - 60
The left wing, also known as Young Hegelians, emphasized the analysis of contradictions (Kamenka, 1983). The left looked at cont...
they realize that they may not be able to survive. They only have to come up with the money because an old, poor friend married a ...
grandfather, a devout Christian who taught Horton "a strong biblical sense of the differences between rich and poor... and that ed...
used to understand present and future situations. Interestingly, the author points out that when taking the models of socialism an...
would be no hope of redemption or change. Frankl supports this position by contending that mans search for meaning "is the primar...
rule over the rest of society only so long as that class best represented the economically productive forces of that society. When...
about the factory workers and how they did not feel as if they accomplish anything. This idea of course was born on the backs of t...
steeled and a heart trans- formed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility" (Nietzsche, p.129). One can see tha...
diet preference and sexual activity. Two classic works are extremely useful in allowing us to understand the role of societ...
of Christianity, and went to school. He would later have nothing to do with religion, even coining the phrase related to the idea ...
existence will continue and the thing that people are most afraid of-death-is something that is comprehended as tolerable. Death b...
that different groups may be oppressed. For instance, WEB DuBois fought for the oppression of African Americans whereas Marx and E...
such as the labor theory of value and economic determinism. Economic determinism, above all, embraces the concept that economic fa...
society as an adjunct to the market. Instead of economy being embedded in social relations, social relations are embedded in the e...
1944). During communal activity, such as feasts, dances and other occasions, the chief distributes gifts to all and the "overwhelm...
Marx). In other words, Marx saw societies as being composed of classes in constant conflict. Differing markedly from his predecess...
argue that such public officials will do good things once they get the money, but the ultimate goal is for fame and fortune. The n...
of class struggle, of the economic contradictions of capitalism, and of the coming expropriation of the expropriators" (Marx 75-76...
cashier or general store worker. It is an alienation that has seemingly persisted throughout the ages in a variety of settings. W...
were synonymous. In his investigations into science, Aristotle knew of inductive reasoning, but he relied heavily on use of the de...
that these struggles differed within each historical stage (Cosner 1999: Marx). In contrast to his predecessors, who saw the strug...
higher educational process and the increased facilities for and temptations towards refined habits on the part of the rich-will ma...
suggested also is that the new type of corporation, while more flexible is nothing like what work once was. In other words, the go...
become the ghosts of disappointment. The system does not work and often expels compliant children who are really not up to the tas...
is dead, at least as a philosophy, in the sense that it can never be implemented. While there is much lip service given to democra...
his theory, there is more than just home ownership that is valuable. After all, a critic might contend that Marx was bent on provi...
everyone is unhappy in society and to look at the world as one composed of boxes or cages or bureaucracy seems rather hopeless. In...
However when we look at what it is Karl Lagerfeld is trying to promote, it is not only the clothes and his desire to...
are decided benefits to a "fast track" situation. Developers are the guys who front the money for the building -- and theyre the o...
in the power structure of the time to allow rule by the previously exploited working class (the proletariat,) and the termination ...