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influences we first need to consider aktuelles Verstehen and erkl?rendes Verstehen. The first of these is aktuelles Verstehen is o...

a context that is relative to his life. Aristotle believed that "happiness is an activity of soul in accordance with virtue." Ar...

capital and harvesting resources to create financial gains. Technology has simply been devised in order to promote further econom...

quite a bit about himself, he insists that he is lying. There is no point in this narrative in which the Underground Man becomes ...

the only species that truly does not understand the depth and intensity that animals possess in their special consciousness. When...

based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...

conditions and development; contrarily, humanity may also perceive the world as a more direct understanding based upon their spiri...

the sensual realm is looked upon as a way of enhancing bodily awareness in its sensual expression, which in turn trigger an enhanc...

for social control and the exercise of power, on the other. All government, indeed, all institutions of society, exist along this ...

Stuart Mill (that is, if they had been contemporaries). Both men believed that the greatest threat posed by democratic rule was in...

In eight pages this paper examines Mahatma Gandhi's life in an application of Aristotle's 'good life' concepts. Two sources are c...

here, but Platos position that it is necessary to experience a thing in order to have knowledge of it informs the reading of The R...

Athens up as the shining example of democracy saying: "Let me say that our system of government does not copy the institution of o...

injustice...have no place" (2001). Hobbes argued that during this period in human development it was common experience that each m...

perfect, despite what we observe. Forms are beyond this material world, for nothing that we can grasp in this world is perfect."3 ...

did not invent the principle of utility (which goes back to Plato) however, he was the first to devise a comprehensive theory base...

or good enough. This individual does not say they have gone out of their way for another, nor have they claimed that they have sto...

keep order and lock up criminals and investigate injustices, but it is not governments job to tell the people how to live their li...

they established themselves in a small house in London. Pampinea then relates how the brothers scrimped and saved and started rebu...

close relationships over great distances and for a long period of time, indefinitely, even with separations and loss of contact" (...

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...

of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful" (NA). In this we see an incredibly humane approach, as well as a humane ...

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

force themselves upon their wives for sexual favors, and they are not allowed by faith to molest them. The Torah and Talmud both ...

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

In particular, Wikholm (2002) cites the work of Karl Ulrichs and his descriptions of "men with an inborn attraction to other men."...

a bad man or above humanity; he is like the Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one,whom Homer denounces- the natural outcast is forthw...

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

existing moral standard. This fact should be kept in mind in understanding that for Aristotle whether a certain kind of behavior w...

it is (L) that connects human behavior with the environment via "desires and beliefs" that the environment fosters in us (Rosenbe...