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moderation. We can see this as he puts those people in the first stages of hell, which had been neutral -nothing good-nothing bad...

either good or evil. There was no "middle of the road" in this extreme religious philosophy. When Augustine was indulging in his...

Victorinus by Plato. This seems to have moved Augustine from the point of simply musing about immortality into an assurance about ...

but Augustine lacked "the sincere desire of being heard," so that when he got to Carthage the city seduced him (Portalie, 2004). ...

how evil is nothing tangibly heinous, but instead reflects the "absence of good."ii In other words, man merely makes bad choices ...

like St. Augustine, a man from centuries before, was of the same mind, he clearly would have influenced the people and made them s...

groups on the basis of at least 60 Alu polymorphisms, but only narrowly enough to identify their continent of origin. They report...

As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...

and other shows have introduced a world of learning to toddlers and the preschool set. There are educational shows for adults and ...

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

is an eternity to teenagers. It was his intention to tell the story of a generation coming of age in one night" (Hyams et al PG)....

the head, cheekbones and jaws which were enlarged, lips that protruded and abnormal teeth along with dark skin (Jones, 2006; Willi...

the concept of paying it forward. Praying forward is that act of doing something kind or helpful for someone else, they, in turn, ...

Different theological philosophies attribute free will and freedom to different other theories. This paper explores libertarian fr...

African parents. His mother was Catholic and his father converted to Christianity in his later years. As a boy, Augustine studied ...

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 ...

even if the consequences of an action are good, if the motives behind the action were wrong, it will still be wrong (Some fundamen...

literacy and the difficulties for the teacher in a diverse classroom. There are many different ways to foster reading comprehensio...

one of the differences between classical and modern rhetoric. The only way to understand what it means to express oneself persuasi...

This paper examines how the human concept of virtue and its pursuit influence human nature and society within the context of the t...

This paper consists of six pages and considers how Manicheism is gradually rejected by St. Augustine in an examination of the fift...

Plato emphasizes the importance of maintaining self control in the face of eros, the importance of purging the passions of the fle...

whatever they become, defining their being through a projection of what they foresee of themselves in the future....

smartest beings when it comes to illustrating their capacity for cultivating and understanding knowledge; therefore, the value of ...

proprium. Phenomenologically, proprium is the self "is composed of the aspects of your experiencing that you see as most essentia...

of both his Preface paper and this new paper. Maslow states that his purpose is to: "formulate a positive theory of motivation w...

a variety of human factors have all served as a focus for study and research in a number of areas. Because language is one of th...

In five pages this paper examines how political theory incorporates human nature concepts articulated by Thomas Paine, John, Locke...

of Nature. He has also noted that while the 20th century has involved a great deal of specialization, the 21st century will be a ...

still perhaps not arriving at solid answers when his friend tells him he has to leave. Socrates tells him, "Alas! my companion, an...