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Essays 541 - 570

Geographic Comparison

pre-industrial city and pertains to the countrys early history. The essays in this section of the book pertain to "some of the int...

Science Cannot Reach Definite Conclusions

source of testable evidence-that counts and forges the crucial distinction between speculation and science" (Gould, 1987, p. 425)....

All Quiet on the Western Front & Iraq

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

Leadership Style/MacArthur & Patton

to be so remote as to be unapproachable (Manchester 5). He is described as wrapping "himself in a cloak of dignified aloofness" (M...

David Maguire/Sacred Choices

this argument on the fact federal policy on such issues as embryonic stem cell research has been decided along religious lines (Ma...

The Patriot Act

knowledge or consent of the targeted individual". (Robinson, 2003). Wire taps on our phones, monitoring...

Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

Utilitarianism: The Views of Bentham and Mill Compared

matters and this aspect of Benthams theory is called hedonistic utilitarianism ("Utilitarianism," 2005). Bentham (1988) further s...

Human Nature According to Saint Augustine and Plato

the individual and a definition of justice. There are three classes for the state to function properly: artisans, who are skilled ...

Peirce and Hume on Skepticism

director of our own narrative, but we can never say for certain how the story will end. Although we make plans, and try to foresee...

Thomas Aquinas and David Hume on Religious Morality

a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...

Women as Viewed by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen

the novel and the author views her, and thus views women in general perhaps. The character to be examined is Rosa Dartle. She "i...

American Revolutioin from Different Perspectives

how things were effected, but rather, the investigation goes to why. One may glean, from reading this book, that America was prope...

Government and the State, Good and Evil, and the Individual According to Philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

from mans knowledge of truth; Aristotle believed that all men pursued happiness which came not from wealth but from contemplation ...

Education Politics, Modernism, and Postmodernism

at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...

'Justice as Fairness' and John Rawls

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Battles According to George Lefebvre and Roland Mousnier

In five pages Lefebvre's and Mousnier's views on what contributed to the French uprisings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centur...

Perspectives on the Soul, Socrates and Aristotle

for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...

Socratic Philosophy and Plato

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

Race According to Charles R. Lawrence and John Stuart Mill

anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....

Punishment Perspectives of Max Weber and Emile Durkheim Comparison

allows others to live peacefully. Incarcerating a rapist or murderer makes certain that no one will be harmed by that individual ...

Malthus, Ricardo, Smith and the 'Invisible Hand'

trade tariffs and taxes, but also measures such as minimum wages legislation as well as production limits. The policy that was fou...

Sentiment and Reason According to Adam Smith and Aristotle

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

Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards

on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of ob...

The Golden Age: The Political Concepts of Islam by Ira Lapidus and The Community in Islamic History by Hamilton A.R Gibb

custodians of the true Islam. This, it is argued, reflect in the way that the states have evolved today and the different models t...

Ethics: The Views of Aristotle and Kant

life, white lies can protect people from hurt feelings. They can be used to motivate others to do good things. There are sometimes...

Christianity and Religion According to On Liberty and A Letter Concerning Toleration

of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...

19th and 20th Century Philosophies of John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, and Richard Rorty

Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...

Gershom Scholem and Franz Kafka's Interpretations of Judaism

and we can start to see the representation of Judaism in Kafkas work, Scholem stated that "Although unaware of it himself, [Kafkas...

Choice Making and McTeague by Frank Norris

to make choices based upon the priorities of others rather than their own priorities. There are so many pressures from so many so...