Greek History Ancient Greek History As the leader of Athens during the Peloponnesian War, it was Pericles' responsibility to develop an overall strategy for the waging of the war. The strategy he developed played on Athens' strengths and the weakn Continue Reading...
This painting shows the philosopher, unjustly condemned to die for his beliefs by the government, as a kind of pagan saint, statue-like and stoic in his beliefs and powerful and noble in the dark, stark anatomical shadings of the work. David's Death Continue Reading...
Human Behavior: Values, Cultural Design, And Control We are all controlled by the world in which we live, and part of the world has been and will be constructed by men. The question is this: Are we to be controlled by accidents, by tyrants, or by ou Continue Reading...
Higher education [...] Harvard University in the year 1770, as it relates to two potential students, Noah and Rachael. Harvard University, established in 1636, is America's oldest college and America's oldest corporation. Noah and Rachael would like Continue Reading...
Cultural and Social Influence of Neoclassical Artist (Antonio Canova) Antonio Canova Culture and social influence of the Neoclassical artists Antonio Canova's life was mainly of sculptor because his father, Pietro Canova, was a stonecutter of Poss Continue Reading...
Arts and Humanities in Rosseau's Second Discourse And Other Pieces Of Work Arts and Humanities in Rousseau's Second Discourse and other Pieces of Work In the second discourse, Rousseau changes progress and decries imprisoning in men, in a fabricate Continue Reading...
Like Emerson, Whitman found beauty symbols of American future progress, even in industrial America and standardized and homogenized modern progress like the "Locomotive in Winter": "For once come serve the Muse and merge in verse, even as here I se Continue Reading...
Gorgias, Encomium of Helen In the English language in the twenty-first century, the term "sophistry" still exists to refer to a plausible-sounding but misleading argument, an evaluatively negative term to describe bad reasoning. Although the term de Continue Reading...
We do not seek honor because it is valuable in itself, we seek honor to make us feel good, to achieve happiness. Aristotle believed that a true, ultimate must be sought for its own sake, that the end goal be self-sufficient and final. For Aristotle Continue Reading...
Jurisprudence As a theory in law, Jurisprudence involves varying philosophical perceptions about the purposes of law, the legal system and the institutions developed to regulate law. In an effort to understand the basic, fundamental reasoning for la Continue Reading...
This numerical data always involves judgments what the number means. For this reason, Trochim concludes that quantitative and qualitative data are virtually inseparable, since "(n) exists in a vacuum or can be considered totally devoid of the other Continue Reading...
Mediterranean agriculture therefore turned out as extraordinarily market-oriented. Slavery turned out to be a further key component of the Mediterranean world economy. Aristotle was among the Philosophers who came up with the justifications for req Continue Reading...
Other techniques for improving the yields of agriculture included rudimentary means of employing pesticides to keep crops from being destroyed by insects and other such parasites. The development of improved tools for farming would also play a signi Continue Reading...
Progress During the Enlightenment The notion of progress is as evolving as the modern society we deem progressive. While some view progress in terms of science and technology, others view progress in terms of government, social equality, economic st Continue Reading...
The court case of MacKinnon and Dworkin refers to the instance in which anti-pornography radical feminists Andrea Dworkin and Catherine MacKinnon along with other members of the feminist anti-pornography movement proposed a series of local ordinanc Continue Reading...
Dante, Boethius, And Christianity Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy, of which the Inferno is the first of three books, called Boethius, an early Christian, "The blessed soul who exposes the deceptive world to anyone who gives ear to him." Continue Reading...
Group Structure & Unit Cohesiveness in the United States Army This paper offers critical evaluation of the United States Army, giving clear, descriptive outlines of what is like to be a member of an elite unit with a perspective of the group str Continue Reading...
people generally think that we can detach ourselves from the world around us and objectively evaluate and reason through our experiences. This is the classical line of thought initially proposed by philosophers such as Aristotle, Socrates, and, late Continue Reading...
" Real Americans support the right of religious people to worship, and would never base legislation on a religious conviction rather than a conviction based on constitutional rights, constitutional law, and Enlightenment ethics. American political i Continue Reading...
Hamlet, however, is full of hesitation. He does not experience the type of confidence Antigone does and suffers because of it. These characters are not abnormal; they are exaggerated or comical in a way audiences cannot relate to them. They are uniq Continue Reading...
Even when they are given a large number of students, teachers know that they must make at least some attempt to individualize their lessons, or at least allow for different learning styles. For teachers of English as a second language, this is often Continue Reading...
Furthermore, those people who did not speak Greek were referred to as barbar, the root of our word barbarian."[footnoteRef:5] [4: Ibid] [5: Ibid] Question 3 There are many aspects of Greek culture and artistic traditions that have left their mark Continue Reading...
nursing education and specifically that completed in Saudi Arabia. The review will what the level of education is in Saudi Arabia now and historically, what efficacy critical thinking has as a component of nursing education and how that component ca Continue Reading...
Wikis Within an Organization If technically create wiki, explore read multiple existing wiki sites a substitute exercise.) This reading give ideas wikis organizations: Grace, P.L. (2009). What is a wiki and how can it be useful for an organization Continue Reading...
Pain and pleasure are not part of Rawls' theory. Rather, he centers his theory on the concept of justice. Rawls strongly argued that humans have the capacity for genuine toleration and respect for other humans. From this premise Rawls felt that true Continue Reading...
The focus is on understanding the way moral choices are presented than judging the outcome of the decisions made. Ethics can be situational, and certainly the dilemmas or morality and choice have different answers depending on the particular time an Continue Reading...
Do I choose things that are primarily in my best interest or do I choose based in what is best for society and then trust that the end result will be in my best interest? There are so many choices in life and I do at times become nervous about maki Continue Reading...
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published shortly after his assassination in February 1965, is a collaborative effort by Malcolm X and Alex Haley. Containing as it does the entire life history of Malcolm X, Continue Reading...
Dialogue Between Aeschylus and Plato Plato: Cities and their functioning are just like individuals and their functioning system, wouldn't you agree? Aeschylus: I can agree with you up to a certain point. Individuals' functioning system can be assim Continue Reading...
psychological trauma, and how does she relate it to repression? What evidence does she supply in support of her claim? Do you agree with her stance on this basic issue? Slater, in her usual creative style, believes the current methods of dealing wi Continue Reading...
As Jeffrey Stout has it, following James' "Will-to-Believe," "We need not agree on all matters of moral importance to agree on many, and where our judgments happen to coincide we need not reach them for the same reasons." (Fackre, 2003) Fackre stat Continue Reading...
The material cause refers to that substance out of which a thing is constructed. The formal cause is the idea of the thing in the mind of the creator who sets about creating that particular thing. The efficient cause is the Agent - or the being that Continue Reading...
Both Antigone and Creon are determined and obstinate. Both exhibit the tragic flaw of hubris, because neither one is willing to surrender his or her will. However, Creon was in the position to avert the tragic ending of the play without sacrificing Continue Reading...
Like Khan, Huxley focused on the sensations of the person (himself) having the mystical experience. During his experience, Huxley felt he had no impairment in his mind or gaze, an intensity of vision without an outer and imposed substance to induce Continue Reading...
new branch of science called Sports Science that respectively makes use of motor learning and motor control in the sports industry. Sports Science Motor learning and motor control is a field of science that is being studied from a sports point-of- Continue Reading...
connecting the reader with the time period in which it was written. This is why the writings of the distant past, even in translation, are among the most fascinating to modern scholars. Anthropologists such as Saussure, Joseph Campbell and others we Continue Reading...
Ethics abortion. ethics? What abortion? related affect . A breif history abortion. Does abortion fall metaethics, normative ethics, applied ethics? I include Christian, Jewish, Islamic views abortion. Abortion There has always been much controvers Continue Reading...
Scientific Knowledge There lies question on whether scientific knowledge is able to answer all the questions that relate to physical reality. For many years, people have wondered what the earth is composed of, leaving them wondering if the nature's Continue Reading...
Human Beings Make Sense of Things In the early-1900s, Edmund Husserl sought to provide psychology with a truly scientific basis, not by copying the physical sciences but through the description of conscious experiences. This would be a truly humani Continue Reading...
This can occur without any human intervention. Therefore the issue of permanence becomes incomprehensible to man, regardless of science and logic (or perhaps because of it). As such, we cannot legitimately claim that any object or form is "real" bec Continue Reading...
