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Universal Laws One Thing
1,313 words... d effect, but all the propositions of arithmetic and geometry, are synthetic. In all these propositions, no analysis of the subject will reveal the predicate. He gives the example 7 + 5 = 12. He points out that 7 and 5 have to be put together to give 12; the idea of 12 is not contained in them, nor even in the idea of adding them together (Prolegomena 2). From his proposition that all mathematics are synthetical, Kant explains how the ideas of space and time are also a priori forms of sensib...
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Time And Place Omniscient Narrator
1,070 words... sts, and an extraordinary plot and well-synchronized subplots moving upward in a well organized pyramid structure. Congratulations! You now have seventy percent of the elusive good novel writing mystery solved. But remember that the fiction book industry itself is also a giant pyramid, and only the top three percent of the damned hard-working authors at the apex of the writing matrix make the big bucks. To enter into their eminent 3 % domain you have to be better than the 97 % of wanna bes i...
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Love At First Sight Fall In Love
2,200 words... ely better than golf, we can say that my history with the former should make me more inclined to love it than the latter. It may be the case that running has been a source of stress relief while golf causes it or I may have met my girlfriend at a race and not on the driving range. The same applies to Garcia Marquez and Tolstoy there is a set of sense histories that makes me more favorable toward Latin American literature than Russian. This is why love seems to be selective we look for certai...
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Relativism Versus Ethical Absolutism
667 wordsRelativism is the denial of any absolute or objective values (truth, moral goodness, beauty, etc. ) and the affirmation of the individual, community or culture as the source of values. Absolutism is the view that values (truth, beauty, and / or moral goodness) are independent of human opinion and have a common or universal application. The absolutist's view is that some statements are "objectively true, " that is, true independent of whether anybody recognizes their truth. Objectivism is another...
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Level Of Reality Objective Reality
1,379 words... apparent faster-than-light connection between subatomic particles is really telling us that there is a deeper level of reality we are not privy to, a more complex dimension beyond our own that is analogous to the aquarium. And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic particles as separate from one another because we are seeing only a portion of their reality. Such particles are not separate "parts", but facets of a deeper and more underlying unity that is ultimately as holographic and ind...
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Human Beings Human Spirit
1,115 wordsThroughout the semester, a theme that has guided our thoughts has been the idea that the self is the capacity to have capacities. Through what we have read, written about, and discussed, we have been trying to come up with our own answers to the questions about the self; what a capacity is, how we find them, which ones are essential to human flourishing, what we do with them once they are found? Yet all of these questions lead us to answer that final and defining question of 'what is the 'truth'...
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World Trade Center September 11 2001
2,247 wordsWhat do the events of September 11 mean for the United States' national security policy? September 11, 2001 was a typical Tuesday morning for most of the United States. People were about their everyday lives. Workplaces were carrying on typical business, classrooms were filled with students. No one was aware that within the next twenty-four hours their lives would be changed forever. Or would it? Everyone knows the story. At 8: 46 in the morning, American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the Nort...
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Moral Principles Human Spirit
2,220 wordsThe Balance of Power Throughout the semester, a theme that has guided our thoughts has been the idea that the self is the capacity to have capacities. Through what we have read, written about, and discussed, we have been trying to come up with our own answers to the questions about the self; what a capacity is, how we find them, which ones are essential to human flourishing, what we do with them once they are found? Yet all of these questions lead us to answer that final and defining question of...
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Max Weber Political Writings
4,099 wordsMax Weber and Social Science Max Weber thought that statements of fact are one thing, statements of value another, and any confusing of the two is impermissible, Ralf Dahrendorf writes in his essay Max Weber and Modern Social Science as he acknowledges that Weber clarified the difference between pronouncements of fact and of value. 1 Although Dahrendorf goes on to note the ambiguities in Webers writings between factual analysis and value-influenced pronouncements, he stops short of offering an e...
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Fourth Amendment Privately Owned
2,972 wordsThe Fourth Amendment to the Constitution states that people have the right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, but the issue at hand here is whether this also applies to the searches of open fields and of objects in plain view and whether the fourth amendment provides protection over these as well. In order to reaffirm the courts decision on this matter I will be relating their decisions in the cases of Oliver v. United States (...
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Eternal Truth Fully Understand
1,665 wordsSoren Kierkegaard is said to be one of the founding fathers of existentialism. His style of writing, his tone and vocabulary tie him closely to another forerunner of existentialist thought: Fyodor Dostoevsky (although either of them would probably deny this vehemently). However, in the course of his writings, Kierkegaard takes quite a liberal and (dare I say it? ) individualistic stand on the side of Christianity. In the passages I have read of Kierkegaard (That Individual and Truth is Subjectiv...
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Faith In God Nietzsche
1,785 wordsKierkegaard? s Notions Of Risk, Faith, Passion, & Kierkegaard? s Notions Of Risk, Faith, Passion, & Truth? ? ? ? Soren Kierkegaard puts forth a unique form of existentialism. He chooses to use the questions of subjectivity, objectivity, and the search for truth, in existentialist thought as a means for the justification of his faith. Through this he comes up with one of the purest definitions of what faith really is. The question is then; can he through his discussion of? the paradox of ...
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French And Indian War Point Of View
1,743 wordsAuthor Vs. Director The French and Indian War of the eighteenth century had uniquely complex qualities, matched by the gravity of its outcome. The myriad of cultures involved the French, Canadian, American, English, Algonquians, and Iroquois whom make this era fascinating. The multi-ethnic element made it a war built upon fragile alliances, often undermined by factional disputes and shifting fortunes. Violent as it was, its battlefields encompassed some of the most beautiful country to be found ...
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Dramatic Monologue Dramatic Tension
881 wordsRegret: A Hopeless Quality Tenets of Tennyson in Tithonus? Tithonus? was written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The poem? s setting is the ancient story of Tithonus. Tithonus fell in love with Eos, goddess of the dawn, and asked her for immortality. Unfortunately for Tithonus he did not ask for eternal youth, only eternal life. He, therefore, grows old but never dies while Eos not only never dies but also never grows old. What makes Tithonus? s situation worse is that? the gods themselves cannot reca...
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Indirect Discrimination Full Time
1,464 wordsThis question touches on a variety of issues in relation to discrimination claims. So we must first address how the court considers discrimination. In all cases the burden of proof lies with the applicant, although in Khanna v MOD (1981) it was held that if the actions of the employer establishes prima facie discrimination, the burden shifts to him to show the reason for his actions. This approach was confirmed by the Court of Appeal in Baker v Cornwall County Council (1990) and in King v Great ...
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