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predominating fact peculiar to these ages is equality of conditions, and the chief passion which stirs men at such times"(2002). ...

the wealthy. Many were secretly considering an end to Tsarist rule. A small attempt at revolution by the Decemberists sought to de...

understood. He goes on to call it a queer thing that abounds in metaphysical subtleties as well as theological niceties (1887). A...

of this paper, and the sake of argument, we can readily assume that he derives this theory from observation and philosophy as it r...

lead to irrational ends (Lear, 1995). For Freud who used psychoanalysis to try and account for human irrationality it was determi...

Marx would say that the world is reduced to work for hire with no creativity. Durkheim would say that the world was reduced to not...

feeding, clothing, housing, educating and medicinally caring for their suffering masses. "The ruling ideas of each age have ever ...

attitude. In trying to evaluate society with a myriad of insights, several culturalists can help to provide these. They too look a...

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

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

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

Without the pressures of the capitalist system, Marx was of the opinion that work could make a valuable contribution to the labour...

Karl Marx is known for his arguments against capitalism and how the elite exploit the weak. Durkheim is known for considering the ...

benevolent and living God who is infinite in a myriad of ways. Because God is deemed to be dead, Nietzsche sees it necessary fo...

It has been argued that the practice if growth and wealth creation cannot be undertaken at the same time as the redistribution of ...

This essay begins by describing the moral and political philosophies of John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Benito Mussolini...

In 1867, Karl Marx wrote that all capitalists exploit their employees, that employees were just another commodity to them. Sadly, ...

history. This paper describes his life, how he formed his beliefs, and what his contemporaries thought of him. It also discusses h...

surpass them (Kerbo, 2009, p. 52). As this indicates, issues of power, status and economics have tremendous influenced the ways in...

be necessary to take over these assets by making "despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois p...

someone who believed in totalitarian government either. White (2002) remarks: "Whether in regard to the specific demands of the sa...

War can be seen as an event that ends in ruin for all concerned. He also says that society in general was dividing into two "grea...

every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the...

anyone can do given a reasonable amount of training. Reich uses the example of AT&T and its phone assemblers. The company had a ...

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 ...

everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have ...

he had the same words of contempt. Under an absolute monarchy, he believed, the military or law-enforcing caste was unduly exalte...

living, they may be making a lot of money, but they are also spending a lot. Upon retirement, they can sell a home in the Northeas...

such as the labor theory of value and economic determinism. Economic determinism, above all, embraces the concept that economic fa...

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...