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Censorship

Censorship -- the control of the information and ideas circulated within a society -- has been a hallmark of dictatorships throughout history. In the 20th Century, censorship was achieved through the examination of books, plays, films, television and radio programs, news reports, and other forms of ...

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Hegel And The National Heritag

In Hegel's political theory the state is seen not only as an instrument of legal power, but also as the embodiment of a national heritage. Interestingly, theorists like Hobbes, Locke, and Bentham were able to talk of states and government as if they bore no relation to particular countries. A ...

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Transcendentalism

was a movement in philosophy, literature, and religion that emerged and was popular in the nineteenth century New England because of a need to redefine man and his place in the world in response to a new and changing society. The industrial revolution, universities, westward expansion, ...

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Moral Basis for Affirmative Action

Running head: THE MORALE BASIS FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS The Morale Basis for Affirmative Actions Ethics and Social Responsibility Table of Contents Introduction ....................................................... 4 Ethical Arguments in favor of affirmative ...

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Literary Critique Of Alexander Pope and John Dryden's Works

English Literary Criticism On The Works of Alexander Pope and John Dryden Long before the structuralists ever attempted to define what constituted the proper way of conceptualizing the narrative art, long before the deconstructionists ever wrote about the socially constructed nature of gender, ...

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Tales Of The City

When you sense the affection where people enfold their loving kindness you are probably amidst the tenants of 28 Barbary Lane, San Francisco 94109. Perhaps ‘tenants' is the wrong word, it should be something more like a friendly community of people. In Tales of the City , by Armistead Maupin, the ...

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Materialism vs Idealism

MARX AND Engels worked out their theory of how human society develops in a struggle against 'idealist' philosophers. Many people think of socialism as being 'idealist' - that is that it is a nice idea, but unrealistic (what Marx and Engels called 'utopianism'). On the contrary, the ideas of ...

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The Rise Of Democracy

The beginning, or origin of democracy was that of Athens, Greece in the year 508 BC. It lasted a total of 104 years, which is pretty good for its first time in real use. At the time of its creation it was 1 form of democracy that we know today as direct democracy. The idea of direct democracy ...

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The Aristophanes' Ideology: Creation Through Separation

What is love? Where does it come from? These are just a couple of questions that Plato's Symposium attempts to answer. The Symposium is an account of the banquet given by a young poet Agathon, which was recollected and told by Apollodprus. There where six speeches spoken by Phaedrus, ...

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Socrates

Philosophy is a vast field. It examines and probes many different fields. Virtue, morality, immortality, death, and the difference between the psyche (soul) and the soma (body) are just a few of the many different topics which can be covered under the umbrella of philosophy. Philosophers are ...

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The Study Of Psychology

Chapter 1 discusses psychology. It mentions why psychologists do what they do and the purpose of why they study psychology. It also discusses how psychologists conduct research, how psychology emerged, the steps of research, ethical issues, and the 20th century perspective on psychology. ...

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Justice In The Republic

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote “One man’s justice is another’s injustice.” This statement quite adequately describes the relation between definitions of justice presented by Polemarchus and Thrasymachus in Book I of the Republic. Polemarchus initially asserts that justice is “to give to each ...

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Aristotle And Kant

Webster’s Dictionary defines the word moral as, “...of or relating to the principles of right or wrong; conforming to a standard of right behavior...” But who is to decide what is right and wrong, who is moral and who is unethical. This has been a heated debate topic since the beginning of time. ...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Self-Reliance”

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” is a wonderfully written essay that gives many definitions of what one’s self is about. With many definitions to define self-reliance it could give the reader so many new positive ideas about how to change and better their life. The most significant ...

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Philosophy - Socrates

Philosophy is a vast field. It examines and probes many different fields. Virtue, morality, immortality, death, and the difference between the psyche (soul) and the soma (body) are just a few of the many different topics which can be covered under the umbrella of philosophy. Philosophers are ...

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Elian Gonzales, The Way Socrat

es sees the problem Should an individual abide by the laws of his country no mater what or should he fight back. This is the question Socrates is trying to answer to Crito in this dialog by Plato. The dialog is also closely related with Elian Gonzalez situation because the people are split on ...

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Life Of Raphael Sanzio

During a time when Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci were the prime artists in Europe, a young man by the name of Raffaello Sanzio was starting to attract major attention with his artworks. The Italian high Renaissance was marked by paintings expressing human grandeur and very humanistic values. ...

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Law Does Not Drive Us, Reason Does

Is an individual ever morally justified in breaking a man made law? I firmly believe the answer to this question is yes. If the question was stated as, is an individual ever legally justified in breaking a man made law I would have to say no. There are several reasons that have made me believe ...

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Phaedo

Philosophy is a vast field. It examines and probes many different fields. Virtue, morality, immortality, death, and the difference between the psyche (soul) and the soma (body) are just a few of the many different topics which can be covered under the umbrella of philosophy. Philosophers ...

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Battle Royal

After I read the story "" by Ralf Ellison, I could not restrain my thoughts about issues of morality and what it has to do with reality, from clashing in to one another in my mind. As these two completely different ideas were pushing me to the brink of madness, my mind began to click. The swirling ...

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