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- 811: Romanticism in the 19th Century
- ... its welcome by leading the people to a future that offered a vision of mankind as being part of a group rather than an individual. G. W. F. Hegel, a German philosopher, rejected the rational philosophy of the 18th century because he believed in "Idealism". This involved looking at life in terms of the importance of ideas, not thought the narrow tunnel of materialism and wealth. By advocating Idealism, Hegel concluded ...
- 812: What Are Morals?
- ... as maturity is reached, the individual starts to perceive the big picture, and begins to understand how certain actions affect society as a whole. Often at this stage the individual tends to develop a life philosophy. There are many different ways of developing morality. Sometimes someone will make an idol or an example out of another person, living or dead. Many people try hard to dedicate their lives to being like ...
- 813: Crisis: Generation X
- ... Jasmine, their hippie-dippy mother. He is unable to choose between his anorexic American girlfriend or a glamourous French amour who has come to the New World to continue their summer holiday fling. Tyler's philosophy is "What's on your head says what's inside your head" this analogy is created for his love of collecting shampoo. Similar to the beliefs of Generation X and Microserfs Tyler rejects the beliefs ...
- 814: Segregation and The Civil Rights Movement
- ... Stokely Carmichael, who popularized the term the Black Power. Black Power advocates were influenced by Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam minister who had been assassinated in early 1965. They viewed Malcolm's black nationalist philosophy, which emphasized black separatism and self-sufficiency, as more realistic for dealing with racism in the United States. They also appreciated Malcolm's emphasis on black pride and self-assertion. The national media reported Black ...
- 815: United States of American: Personal Freedom
- ... refused to take action. The defendant was acquitted on the basis that in cases of libel the jury should judge both law and the facts. James Alexander was the first colonial writer to develop a philosophy on the freedom of speech. He founded the American Philosophical Society and masterminded the Zenger defense. Alexander's chief conviction was "Freedom of speech is a principal pillar in a free government: when this support ...
- 816: Cloning, Right or Wrong
- ... blastomere stage. Then he separated it by shaking it in a flask and allowing them to grow. The cells developed into dwarf sea urchins. Driesch could not explain his experiments and gave up embryology for philosophy. The first implantation of a nucleus into an egg cell occurred in 1952 by Robert Briggs and Thomas J. King in Philadelphia. They had transferred the nuclei of Leopard Frogs eggs. The egg cells did ...
- 817: Creationism and Darwinism
- ... existence. We reside on the surface of a small superbly crafted, autonomous self regulating space vehicle. Together with survival, conquest and death we bear witness to beauty, fragrances, love and music. Think about this. Mathematics, philosophy, springtime, depravity, farming, courtship, quasars, and bubble gum; all came from nothingness?, formed by chance...
? Of all the generations thus far to inhabit the Earth, we have the least excuse for not recognizing the quiet ...
- 818: Define a Concept : Astrology
- ... can be simplified into one word : gravity. The Sun has the greatest gravity and, therefore, the strongest affect on Astrology, followed by the Moon and the other planets. Astrology can be best understood as a philosophy that helpsd to explain life, rather than simply a tool used to predict ones future or fate. Each of the twelve Star Signs is a unique combination of one of the four Elements (Earth ...
- 819: Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
- ... Classic and Modern Views. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books. Eddington, Sir Arthur. (1987). Space, Time, & Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Edwards, Paul. (Ed.) (1967). The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. New York, New York: MacMillan.
- 820: Galileo and Newton
- ... physics, purposes are irrelevant. Physics looks for the mathematical explanation of concepts and doesn't need to analyze the purpose behind such. It is concerned simply with what happens and how it is happening. The philosophy of physics could extend the concepts to incorporate purpose. The world is the product of the chance concourse of atoms. Everything is comprised of atoms and it makes up the known world to which mathematical ...
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