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- 571: The Use Of Propaganda In The N
- ... individuals to understand. Equally as important, was the necessity to give the people the "conceptual truth," but really only spreading the information the leader wanted to disseminate. The Nazis utilized propaganda to saturate Nazi ideology, philosophy, and mentality into the German population, as well as to change the traditional German moral standards (as far as behavior). Subsequently, as the Nazis hoped would happen, the ideas acquired via propaganda would mature into ... out of the home. According to Hitler, the masses must not have two or more enemies. Rather, they should concentrate on one primary enemy: the Jews. To support this idea, the Nazi propaganda reinforced racist philosophy on the "normal" anti-Semitism by giving the Jews the title of "enemy of the common people." Two elements, hatred and racism, were integrated in propaganda to urge the population to find the importance of ...
- 572: Communism: Overview
- ... his life in an effort to improve the life of the average working man (Foreman 6). Marx is probably best known for his masterpiece, the Communist Manifesto. In the Communist Manifesto, Marx put forth his philosophy on society and the way it would change. In essence, he developed "a set of proportions about human society and the way it is supposed to behave over time" (Daniels 5). Communist's state that ... the sphere of relations between workers and employers" (Daniels 20). Lenin also disagreed with Marx on another concept. Lenin did not thing that a revolution was a result of natural forces, as Marx did. His philosophy stated that the revolution was the result of the purposeful intervention of the elite group (Daniels 20). Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashivili, more commonly called Joseph Stalin, also rose as one of the most powerful men in ...
- 573: Liberalism and Freedom
- ... with Jefferson held strong to this tenet for years until a series of occurrences shattered this theory. The industrial revolution, better communications, and World War I all combined in a synergistic effect that changed this philosophy forever. The industrial revolution made the idea of a predominantly agricultural society in America little more than a dream. World War I showed the world the atrocities that man was capable of and improved means ... with change. The constant endeavor to perfect liberty produces change that liberalism in turn reacts to. This interrelationship helps ensure liberalism's role in bringing about change in the future. Bibliography An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law: New Haven; Yale University Press, 1922 The Relevence of Liberalism; Westview Press, Boulder, CO. 1978 Beiner, Ronald: What's the Matter With Liberlism? University of California Press, Los Angeles, 1992 De Tocqueville, Alexis ...
- 574: The Rise of Communism in Russia
- ... for bitter wrangling among the representatives of various Russian Marxist Factions, and ended in a deep split that was mainly caused by Lenin -- his personality, his drive for power in the movement, and his "hard" philosophy of the disciplined party organization. At the close of the congress Lenin commanded a temporary majority for his faction and seized upon the label "Bolshevik" (Russian for Majority), while his opponents who inclined to the ... reconcile itself to Lenin's stress on the party organization. Trotsky stayed with the Menshevik faction until he joined Lenin in 1917. From that point on, he acomidated himself in large measure to Lenin's philosophy of party dictatorship, but his reservations came to the surface again in the years after his fall from power (Stoessinger, 13). In the months after the Second Congress of the Social Democratic Party Lenin lost ...
- 575: Affirmative Action: Solution or Confusion?
- ... for affirmative action is based upon claims from minorities who believe that they deserve a certain amount of compensation because of the past discrimination which they have received. Diana Axelson, chairperson of the Department of Philosophy of Spelman College, states this in her essay, "Affirmative Action Compensates for Past Discrimination", by claiming, "The first form of compensation which seems appropriate is compensations...for injuries they themselves have received as a result ... In my opinion, the blame of past wrongs should not be put upon the employer, nor should something which happened in the past be a factor in hiring practices. To quote Michael Levin, professor of philosophy: Other past wrongs have left their traces-acts of theft, despoliation, fraud, anti-Semitism-yet society has no organized policy of rectifying those wrongs. It surely seems that if the consequences of one kind of ...
- 576: Australians Against Further Immigration
- ... rejects excessive authority and believes in a fair go, admiration for the battler and a belief in the individual. Currently we are seeing our culture replaced by a new culture for Australia, called multiculturalism - a philosophy that has failed wherever in the world it has been tried such as in Yugoslavia, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Bosnia, Chechnya, Rwanda, Tibet, Isreal, Briton, Timor ect. Multiculturalism always produces conflict between group rights and individual rights. The small ‘l' liberal establishment, who so strongly support multicultururalism, seem blind to the fact that their philosophy of individual rights will disappear under the pressure of group, ethnic and racial rights in a multicultural society. Now we are being told that Australia is a part of Asia and that we must adopt ...
- 577: Thomas Jefferson
- ... things to become an educated man, which was a difficult thing to become during that time. Those two things, time and the resources, allowed him to educate himself in history, literature, law, architecture, science, and philosophy. He also had a great deal of influence on his ideals that came directly from the European culture and thought because he had been a diplomat and friend of French and British intellectuals. Jefferson was ... who was the lieutenant governor of the colony. Small was of the college faculty who Jefferson had studied under. Small had an in depth knowledge of the Scottish Englightenment and its approach to law, history, philosophy, and science. He had also introduced him to the natural sciences and to rational methods of inquiry. Wythe was of the Virginia bar. In Wythe, Jefferson had found an equally gifted teacher of law. Wythe ...
- 578: Music In The Romantic Period
- The Romantic Period, lasting from about 1825 to 1900, saw the beginning of great individualism in music styles. The era consisted of great contrasts in both musical literature and musical esthetics, the branch of philosophy that deals with beauty and taste. The Romantic Era was the period marked by distinctive character of such music forms as the short intimate preludes, music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in ... in creative expression was so apparent. The Romantic Era began as a literary movement in Germany during the late eighteenth century. Romantic Ideas spread throughout Europe through about the next forty years. It became the philosophy of not only poets, but of dramatists, painters, dancers and composers. Because of poetic inspiration, musical compositions were often named with descriptive titles and or complied to literary programs like paintings that attempted to illustrate ...
- 579: Utopia 2
- ... gives his idea of a utopian theme in his book Utopia. He talks about this through this character of Raphael Hythloday centering on such things as country life, cities, officials, occupations, community life, economy, learning, philosophy, and religion. One of these that was of particular interest to me was economy. The markets of these people were nothing more than supply houses where one can take what they want for free. They ... for war while the citizens are taught to despise material things. When talking about utopias, the topic of nature is usually presented along with it. It is reasonable then to talk about nature when mentioning philosophy in a utopian community as More explains. This philosophical position seems to be the foundation for all knowledge to these Utopians. This leads them to believe that the life patterns must follow along with the ...
- 580: The Rise of Communism in Russia
- ... for bitter wrangling among the representatives of various Russian Marxist Factions, and ended in a deep split that was mainly caused by Lenin -- his personality, his drive for power in the movement, and his hard philosophy of the disciplined party organization. At the close of the congress Lenin commanded a temporary majority for his faction and seized upon the label 0Bolshevik (Russian for Majority), while his opponents who inclined to the ... reconcile itself to Lenin's stress on the party organization. Trotsky stayed with the Menshevik faction until he joined Lenin in 1917. From that point on, he accommodated himself in large measure to Lenin's philosophy of party dictatorship, but his reservations came to the surface again in the years after his fall from power (Stoessinger, 13). In the months after the Second Congress of the Social Democratic Party Lenin lost ...
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