Postmodernism is a philosophy and an aesthetic that has become increasingly popular in both mass culture and academia alike. It is characterized in its style by pastiche, self-referential humor, and often parodies the art form it is attempting to cre Continue Reading...
Black Women Activism Women have for a long time been fighting for equality in a patriarchal society. Their every move has been countered by the masculine need to maintain a status quo and led to a revolution given the name "Feminist Movement'. The f Continue Reading...
Introduction Historically, Biblical theology and philosophy had so many things in common and thus complemented each other. Philosophers and theologians even considered themselves mortal enemies in certain cases. Most Christianity doctrines have criti Continue Reading...
Nursing Program Philosophy The values and ideals that go into a nursing program philosophy should be universal in nature, for the reason that nurses are of the community and serve the community. This may seem to complicate the issue of developing su Continue Reading...
Absolutism and Exclusionism in Religion in Truth in Religion: The Plurality of Religion and Unity of Truth by Mortimer Adler Numerous discourses discussing issues about the plurality or absolutism of religion, relating these issues in the manner of Continue Reading...
Philosophy and Theology Philosophy is the study of wisdom while theology is the study of God. Some of the earliest and best known classical philosophers are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. They essentially laid the foundation for Western philosophy b Continue Reading...
1. Description of your leadership philosophy a. Fundamental leadership concept The main emphasis emerging from the transformational leadership concept is for nursing leaders to produce not just constructive but also valuation challenges for their s Continue Reading...
Otherwise, it would be completely impossible to hold anybody morally or criminally responsible for anything, even the most horrific crimes. The basis of all modern legal and ethical systems is precisely that we are all capable of making conscious ch Continue Reading...
This essence is based on his belief that free will an the freedom of choice which is the exercise of free will are rooted in "uprightness": If freedom-of-choice had not been given to rational nature in order for it to keep uprightness-of-will for t Continue Reading...
Business Ethics When the Truth Takes a Stretching Class Maria Bailey clearly and blatantly misrepresented the size of her start-up business, but shrugged it off saying she knew what she was "capable of doing" and just wanted to show potential clien Continue Reading...
Reason and Truth's Relationship For the most part, one can sufficiently argue that both Socrates and Voltaire have the same view of the relation between reason and religion. Such a view is best summarized as the notion that religion is within the bo Continue Reading...
Scientology Introducing a New Religious Movement, one must be as objective as possible. I, for instance, could choose to tell you that L. Ron Hubbard founded the Church of Scientology in 1954 and marketed it as an organization for social reform that Continue Reading...
This includes a fundamental degree of flexibility that allows students to express idiosyncratic preferences, because experimental analyses suggest very strongly that doing so promotes more efficient learning across the board (Jensen 1998). Unlike, t Continue Reading...
If the anomaly resists explanation within the paradigm, the paradigm is altered to include the anomaly. Therefore, to lead to a true crisis and to form the foundation of a scientific revolution, an anomaly must conflict with the basic tenets of the Continue Reading...
role of African philosophy/philosopher in the anti-Colonial struggle in Africa Anti-Colonial Struggle and African Philosophers In spite of moving into a post-colonial modern world, there continue to be issues about developed nations' engagement wi Continue Reading...
Synthesize traditional and progressive education for today's students. Education digest. Vol. 68, Issue 7, 4-8. Retrieved January 17, 2011, from: http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?hid=12&sid=90682ec6-64e1-4958-adc2-32dc1555fcc4%40sessionmgr1 Continue Reading...
Buddhism, religion and philosophy founded in India c.525 B.C. By Siddhartha Gautama, called the Buddha. There are over 300 million Buddhists worldwide. One of the great world religions, it is divided into two main schools: the Theravada or Hinayana i Continue Reading...
Her work in social settlements dealt with the problems created by urbanization, industrialization, and immigration. Unlike many other settlement houses, Addams' Hull-House residence provided kindergarten and day care facilities for the children of w Continue Reading...
Teaching Philosophy PERSONAL OBJECTIVES FOR TEACHING My personal objectives for teaching are to inspire students to continue to pursue learning. I do not believe that my goal as a teacher of nursing is to simply impart insight related to whatever m Continue Reading...
However, our modern perspective and appreciation of objective moral concepts and standards allows us to extract the most beneficial core elements of various religions. At their root, the most fundamental religious principles are much more similar to Continue Reading...
He states that "there is never, within Scripture itself, an attempt to prove the existence of God; if proving God's existence were demanded of all believers; one might expect to find at least one of the believers in the Bible discussing theistic arg Continue Reading...
Political Philosophy The purpose of the present paper is to compare and contrast the following books: On Liberty, written by John Stuart Mill in 1859 and The manifesto of the communist party, written by Marx and Engels in 1848. The first part of the Continue Reading...
Offen, Karen. Defining Feminism: A Comparative Historical Approach. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14, 1: 1988, pg 119. Offen, in her book, has very successfully and clearly laid out the history of feminism and its overall impact. Continue Reading...
Colonial America The Philosophy of Individual Rights Before the Constitutional Convention in England and America Although many individuals today might like to romanticize the origin of individual rights in America, suggesting that such rights began Continue Reading...
Real America? Interestingly enough, one of the themes in the post-modernism period of American history has been the reexamination of the "real America," particularly the moral, ethical and sexual changes that have evolved since the turn of the cent Continue Reading...
The experiences of seniors within the healthcare delivery system will alter how all Americans view healthcare. The healthcare delivery systems and overall organizational structure in the United States has been slow to adjust but that rest of the wo Continue Reading...
Ladow. Similar boards were provisioned for federal prisons not in the penitentiary category. Each prison was also provided with a parole officer to supervise parolees during their community corrections phase. Inmates became eligible for parole after Continue Reading...
Social Philosophy Concluding in Political moderation, in "A Theory of Justice," and in later works, John Rawls explains a comprehensive, as well as influential theory, which is on the subject of, presenting a theory of justice in concurrence with th Continue Reading...
260). This cosmological discussion is one reason Origen is said to have "created, indeed embodied, the first model of a scientific theology;" his approach to the notion of metempsychosis, like nearly all of his theological work, is rooted in a stead Continue Reading...
.., 2004). Direct Instruction (DI) is a model for teaching that emphasizes well-developed and carefully planned lessons designed around small learning increments and clearly defined and prescribed teaching tasks. It is based on the theory that clear Continue Reading...
American Political Philosophy: Republicanism Within this paper, the general theory of republicanism will be presented. The conceptualization of republicanism discussed within the paper as an American political philosophy will be based on The Federal Continue Reading...
Western and Muslim Educational Philosophies The Foundations of Function: Educational Philosophy and Psychology Meet the Social Realities of ESL Instruction Education into English as a Second Language (ESL) has become very important in this countr Continue Reading...
K-12 Curriculum and Instruction: Changing Paradigms in the 21st Century This is not your grandfathers' economy or his educational paradigm however; today's curriculum still appears as such and therein lays a very significant and challenging problem Continue Reading...
In utilitarianism, the focus is on outcomes, or the ends of an action; in deontology the actions themselves must be ethical and moral, or the outcome is moot. Deontology argues that there are norms and truths that are universal for all humans; actio Continue Reading...
Faith and reason: Can one Live without the other? Theology Habitually, faith and reason have respectively been looked at as being the sources of justification for religious faith. For the reason that both can supposedly serve this same epistemic pu Continue Reading...
Global warming is one of the most contentious political issues of our times. It was famously dramatized in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, and remains a hot-button topic of debate. The majority of unbiased, legitimate scientific research supports th Continue Reading...
" Discussion 2 Until the 19th century, nature in art was usually, if present at all, merely the in background of portraits. History and human beings were considered the true, fitting subjects of art. However, as nature began to retreat from everyda Continue Reading...
In his study of the camp doctors, he noted, The willingness to blame Jews for Germany's troubles, making them "arch enemies of Germany." The nation was itself reduced to an abstract essence, threatened by its enemies and in need of sacred renewal a Continue Reading...
Religious Traditions in the Axial Age Aspects of Judaism that made it "axial" during the period from 900 BCE to 300 CE Judaism spelled an era in the time where there was a worship of many deities, and it brought the idea of worshiping only one deit Continue Reading...
