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- 24351: The Stoics and Socrates
- ... and body is recognized, the soul is hardly conceived as possessing a substantial existence of its own. Severed from the body, it is a mere shadow, incapable of energetic life. Other philosophers described the soul's nature in terms of substance. Anaximander gives it an aeriform constitution, Heraclitus describes it as a fire. The fundamental thought is the same. The soul is the nourishing agent which imparts heat, life, sense, and ... the music of the heavenly spheres. All these early theories were cosmological rather than psychological in character. Theology, physics, and mental science were not as yet distinguished. In the "Timaeus" (p. 30), one of Plato's writings, we find an account derived from Pythagorean sources of the origin of the soul. First the world-soul is created according to the laws of mathematical symmetry and musical harmony. It is composed of ... the concept of the human soul. Socrates presents the soul having three major ideas associated with it. The human soul is immortal, immaterial, and moral. The question of immortality was a principal subject of Plato's speculations. In the "Phaedo" the chief argument for the immortality of the soul is based on the nature of intellectual knowledge interpreted on the theory of reminiscence of past lives; this implies the pre- ...
- 24352: Existentialism
- ... for meaning. Every action in which we ask the question Why? is a complete search for meaning, in one way or another. Asking that question builds up meaning for some reason known only to one s self. The belief in meaning being a quest is known as Existentialism. Existentialists believe that meaning is found through the hardest of circumstances, and one must choose to look toward that meaning as a support ... we harm it, our attitudes during a situation become stronger and we are ready for newer, more difficult situations. However, when we are caught with a situation that is far too advanced for our experience s, we tend to worry and question any type of meaning there is. The need for knowledge by every human is part of this journey. Challenges arise in every society and culture. Today, we face many ... is naturally alive . As a people, we make rash decisions because of the loss of life. These decisions are, however, respected due to the fact that they are human decisions. The uniqueness behind these idea s are a part of the reason why the people behind the thoughts of abortion issues have still not come up with a full, complete, conclusive idea. As was stated before, the misery of the ...
- 24353: The First Account of Censorship
- The First Account of Censorship The word censor comes from the Latin censere, which means "to count," as well as "to assess" or "estimate." Censorship is the control of communication between people. It's the restriction of viewing material due to its content. Censorship takes place when a person looks at a material and decides that the material is not suitable for others to see. The person disregards the other person's right to be able to view the material and passes judgement on it. The educational value of the material is usually forgotten and the focus of the material is turned to its negative side. The ... racist by some his well know novels The word censor comes from the Latin censere, which means "to count," as well as "to assess" or "estimate." Censorship is the control of communication between people. It's the restriction of viewing material due to its content. Censorship takes place when a person looks at a material and decides that the material is not suitable for others to see. The person disregards ...
- 24354: Friendship 2
- ... on various kinds of products, qualifications and contributions differ in most friendships. To Aristotle a true friend is a semi mirror image of oneself. True Friends share more than just mutual enjoyment of each other s company. They are also soulmates. Only the true man can become a true friend. The reason is that only the true man will seek out the ultimate good, and among the goods, there is the ... be many people in our life, that we do favors for and who do favors for us, without anyone calling it a friendship. These people are incomplete friends. Man is a social animal and it s our nature to enjoy being with others. Friendship is the stronghold for community, family, and married life. In all times of life man needs friends. The young need to be shown what to do, and ... not share of himself and hide alone and live a secluded life. If one thought of himself in any worth, he would want to share his worth with someone. In all, to be true one's self, one needs self-love. If one fully loves himself, he/she would take part in friendship knowing that it is not only good for them, but for others as well. Two kinds of ...
- 24355: Sigmund Freud
- ... In 1877, suffering from his own neurotic crisis, Freud discovered in a brave self-analysis that patients' fantasies and wishful thinking rather than real experiences play an unconscious role in the onset of neuroses. Freud's findings broke new ground in often misinterpreted areas like infantile sexuality and led to a completely new and expanded understanding of sexuality. His epochal achievement was to help prove the existence of the psyche as ... an independent system. In "Traumdeutung"/"The interpretation of dreams" published in 1900, freud inveiled the dream as a disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes. Within the European culture and civilization was a sensational dsclosure of Freud's (sometimes also personal) fight for self-realization and truth. With his thoughts, Frued not only influenced psychology but also modern time's conception ofthe world. His principles advanced the technique of psychoanalysis, with himself as his first patient. He was successful in overcoming inhibitions as to the logic of his own throughs as well as to ...
- 24356: The Tell Tale Heart
- ... effect of horror by continually stressing to the reader that he or she is not mad, and tries to convince us of that fact by how carefully this brutal crime was planned and executed. Poe's story is a case of domestic violence that occurs as the result of an irrational fear. To the narrator that fear is represented by the old man's eye. Through the narrator, Poe describes this eye as being pale blue with a film over it, and resembling that of a vulture. Does the narrator have any reason to fear the old man or ... Maybe the narrator who tries to convince us that madness is not really the issue, is telling the truth. Maybe this vile act is necessary in order to destroy the power of the old man's evil eye! Human nature is a delicate balance of light and dark or good and evil. Most of the time this precarious balance is maintained; however, when there is a shift, for whatever reason, ...
- 24357: Freuds Framework Of Dreams
- Freud's Framework of Dreams The purpose of dreams is to sleep. Dreams also represent wish fulfillment. A dream is the result of a mediation or compromise between these two opposing forces. Freud defines the manifest content ... manifest dreams Freud differentiates latent dream content, the elements composing the true purpose or meaning of a dream. Through dream analysis one can unravel the manifest dream content in order to arrive at the dream's meaning, which is embodied in the latent dream content, and is termed as the dream-thought. Dream-thoughts are contained within the latent dream, and represent the true wishes and anxieties of an individual. But the true meaning of a dream, its dream-thought, cannot be known merely by examining the manifest dream content. There exists a filter, Freud argues, a mechanism that alters the dream's meaning so that it appears in consciousness as a disguised wish, a distorted impulse. This intervening mechanism Freud called the dream-work. The dream-work is continuously at work during an individual's sleep ...
- 24358: Justice
- ... the Individual view holds the property rights of the individual to be sacred: no one may forcibly deprive him of his goods. I will argue for the last alternative. Individualism is an extension of Locke's idea of property rights. An Individualist believes each person owns his own life, the fruits of his labor, and his property. No one may deprive him of these property rights. He is free to act ... make money by their physical or mental labor. Do I not, then, have full claim to my earnings? If A discovers a cure for AIDS; it surely was not solely a product of A. Society's framework made the discovery possible: A had to build on previous knowledge; she had to use a laboratory she probably did not own. All of these factors make society a partner in the discovery. Therefore ... yet addressed: What about those who are willing to work, but cannot because of their disability? Are they entitled to a subsisence income? My reply would be this: No, they are not entitled to anyone's labor, because no man may force another's wealth from him. If the disabled truly cannot produce anything of value, they are at the mercy of those who can. This may sound harsh, but ...
- 24359: Thomas Hobbes: What Is The Difference Between Obligations In foro interno and In foro externo, and When Do We Have Such Obligations?
- ... is a vital question which I will explore. According to Hobbes, the overriding law of nature is kill or be killed. Hobbes believed that, "every man has a right to everything, even to another man's body. And therefore, as long as this natural right of every man to everything endureth, there can be no security to any man(how strong or wise soever he be) of living out the time ... time and place where no man else should do, should be make himself prey to others, and procure his own certain ruin, contrary to the ground of all laws of nature, which tend to nature's preservation."3 Hobbes felt that one's obligation in foro externo ended when fulfilling the obligation would endanger the life of the person. Every law of nature is geared for the preservation of the life of the self, and therefore, every ...
- 24360: Is Ethnography A Suitable Meth
- Is Ethnography a Suitable method for Research on Residential Satisfaction and Community Participation. Ethnography within its wider field of research is described as the study of people s behaviour in terms of social contexts, with emphasis on interaction in everyday situations (Lindsay, 1997). It is further defined as research that constitutes the art and science of describing a group or culture (Fetterman, 1989 ... holistic approach. Hereafter, assessment of the direct usefulness of the method relating explicitly to the two research variables of residential satisfaction and community participation. An overall critique summary and conclusion will follow this, on ethnography s context and suitability in such a study. The first form of ethnographic research is interviews. These are where a respondent is asked a number of questions by the interviewer, and the interviewer records the answers ... that ethnography constitutes a very valid method of qualitative research, and despite its long list of downfalls and disadvantages, ethnography can produce extremely detailed results of localised studies. It is particularly useful in reflecting people s ideas, rather than generalised quantitative study for reflecting the wider picture or generalising on ideas. Ethnography is in-depth research, similar to case study material, and therefore if research on residential satisfaction was based ...
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