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- 661: The Life of Edvard Munch
- ... costal resort of Asgardstrand in 1891, Munch painted what later became the first of a series of paintings. They were "contemplating Nature's unfolding of the sexual forces between man and woman, mirroring the pessimistic philosophy of Schopenhauer, as well as the fear and anxiety attached to sexuality in the protestant religious tradition in Norway." In 1892 Munch was invited to exhibit at the Association of Berlin. He displayed his six ... and the Berlin literary and artistic society welcomed him socially. However, he gradually grew towards the more radical literary circle, centered around August Strindberg. The group's main focus was on Symbolism, on Nietzsche's philosophy, and was predominantly obsessed with psychology, eroticism and fantasies of death, which may have given force to Munch's works on love, anxiety, and death. Working from his many literary sketches he conveyed his childhood ...
- 662: Significance of Dewey Decimal System With To Kill a Mockingbird
- ... for the librarian and the user to understand” (Gale Research, 1). Like the Dewey Decimal System Maycomb also had its classification system. In the book, Jem confused the Dewey Decimal System with John Dewey’s philosophy of education. This is clear when Scout says, “What Jem called the Dewey Decimal System was school wide by the end of my first year, so I had no chance to compare it to any other teaching technique, I could only look around me” (Lee 37). Dewey’s educational philosophy was the new way students were to be taught in the Maycomb schools. It stressed the hands on experiential method of teaching. Jem easily confused John Dewey’s new way of teaching with Melvil Dewey ...
- 663: Comparison Of Spartan And Samu
- ... code of ethical behavior known as bushido, which remained orally transmitted for generations (Koya, 1992). Bushido means "Way of the Warrior." It was at the heart of the beliefs and conduct of the Samurai. The philosophy of Bushido is "freedom from fear." It meant that the Samurai transcended his fear of death. This gave him the peace and power to serve his master faithfully and loyally and die well if necessary. Duty is a primary philosophy of the Samurai. The following text was written in the seventeenth century by a samurai who had become a Zen Buddhist monk. "The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to ...
- 664: Communism
- ... 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 ...
- 665: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- ... women and children to think for themselves instead of excepting other people's opinions as their own. She felt that learning centers at the turn of the century were teaching females with masculine content and philosophy. Gilman maintained that the educational philosophy needed to be changed because it was still too narrow in thinking since masculine traits were defined as human while female traits were defined as something other. She felt that these women were being educated ...
- 666: The Moral Life and Leviathan: Ideas of Hobbes and Pojman
- The Moral Life and Leviathan: Ideas of Hobbes and Pojman Born during a period of medieval philosophy, Thomas Hobbes developed a new way of thinking. He perfected his moral and political theories in his controversial book Leviathan, written in 1651. In his introduction, Hobbes describes the state of nature as an organism ... the motivations for moral behavior becomes valid because of his use of examples to support his theories, which in turn, apply to Pojman's five purposes for morality. Hobbes purpose to his state of nature philosophy was to describe human nature. He argues that, in the absence of social condition, every action we perform, no matter how charitable or benevolent, is done for reasons which are ultimately self-serving (p.43 ...
- 667: Philosiphy Of David Hume
- David Hum s literary works were varied both in subject and in popular reception. Hume s life was one marked by a seemingly overwhelming love of literature and philosophy. In his autobiography Hume refers to this love absent; ...seized very early with a passion for literature which has been the ruling passion of my life... Hume spent most of his life directed by a ... though Hume gave much wait to the works of these men he was not against taking issue with some of their work, and would loudly voice his decent if the occasion presented itself. Hume s philosophy was markedly anthrosentric, and his attitude towards the religious structure of the day was, at best, hostile. Occasionally Hume s cannon of beliefs tended toward ambiguity, though he held forth the view that religion was ...
- 668: The Call of the Wild: Determinism and Darwinism
- ... and are perpetuated by natural selection. Which supports the phrase,” survival of the fittest”. “London was impressed by Darwin’s evolutionary ideas and the concept of the fittest, making social Darwinism the basis of his philosophy (Courbin 9).” In The Call of the Wild, Buck travels through tough terrain and faces many obstacles during his adventure and survives to become a wild animal, this showed Buck is the strongest one, thus the philosophy of Darwinism (Veggian 1). By using determinism and Darwinism, Jack London created a novel that has become a classic in American literature; his novel has been popular for over 90 years and still counting (Collection ...
- 669: Machiavellis Ideas Of Government
- ... a strong sense of the need to protect and better his country. He does differ from the other philosophers in his suggestion for rulers. The prince--a monarchy--is the real ideal ruler of his philosophy, as he challenges the other ideals, saying that they are unrealistic and unattainable, so not worth our time or effort to achieve. Machiavelli proposed a state ruled by a ruler who was ruthless and untempered ... maintain power. His era needed a ruler that would challenge the corruption of the Church, unify his nation, and establish a strong power in Europe, by whatever means necessary, including those described as Machiavellian. His philosophy, like that of the other philosophers, is a product of his times and of his environment. Though his views did not drastically alter any societies, in that they strived towards the type of ruler he ...
- 670: Participative Management
- ... group. The last phase is to maintain the participative management program (Lewis & Renn, 1992). The key to sustaining a successful participative management program is in the relations between unions and management. It lies in the philosophy of, and the commitment to, cooperation. A cooperative labor/management stance will lead to improved quality and increased productivity; an adversarial stance will lead only to discord (Lewis & Renn, 1992). If participation in workplace problem ... The plant was completely renovated and the only things left was the shell of the old main building and some of the old employees. Just about everything else was new such as corporate sponsorship, operating philosophy, and the manufacturing system. The new United Motor Manufacturing Inc. is a joint venture of General Motors and Toyota. It was set up as a means through which General Motors could learn the Japanese Manufacturing ...
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