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Why Modern Science Is Nihilistic
1,314 wordsWhat is nihilism? Nihilism comes from the Latin root for nothing. Nihilism represents a belief that existence is senseless and useless. It also refers to sacrifice of meaningful existence defined by spiritual values, struggle and pain, in favor of pleasurable, comfortable and secure life. Post-modern writers such as Updike, Nietzsche and Heidegger argue that modern society is nihilistic. These writers claim that since modern science causes nihilism by destroying human nature and spiritual framew...
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Noise Pollution Encyclopaedia Britannica
982 wordsWorld became more and more civilized during past centuries and noise pollution became a serious problem our days. It is a huge issue to everyone and especially for people who live in big and crowded cities. It is not only airports, cars or factories that pollute noise, but also such things as computers or printers can distract people. Even pleasurable things, such as listening to loud music, can damage our hearing. It is proven that noise has different negative influences on people. It not only ...
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Boys And Girls Oedipus Complex
1,503 words... ng to Freud, sexual pleasure. The discovery of our body is organized through our first experiences of sexual pleasure. Freud symbolical y divides the body in erotogenic zones to explain the development of the experience of a childs discovery of his or her body. These zones are the oral, the anal, and the phallic. They correspond to three major stages of childhood development which take place between the ages of 2 and 5 years old. The oral stage is associated with incorporation, with taking i...
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Wilfred Owen Poetic Devices
756 wordsWilfred Owens poem, Arms and the Boy, is a subtle criticism of war that asks deeper questions about violence in human society. Man is born with little that could be used as a physical weapon of violence. His teeth seem for laughing round and apple and there lurk no claws behind his fingers. Despite this lack of natural weaponry, human beings create themselves powerful, destructive weapons of steel and zinc that are far more deadly than any natural teeth, claws, talons, or antlers. Owen makes use...
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Analysis Of Aristotle Chief Good
934 wordsAristotle's first argument concerning the nature of pleasure answers the question of whether of not pleasure is the Good. While he holds that pleasure is indeed, a good, it is just that, one of many. Pleasure is not however, the Chief Good. Aristotle backs up this first argument with some key notions about pleasure. Firstly, that pleasure can be enhanced or decreased through the addition, or taking away, of other factors. Wisdom, for example, can increase ones experiencing of pleasure, while a n...
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Racial Prejudice Narrow Mindedness
1,024 wordsPrejudice is the preconceived opinion of a person or thing. The novel To Kill A Mocking Birds main message to readers is not to treat other races, such as blacks, differently. There are 3 main types of prejudice: racial prejudice, social prejudice and religious prejudice. Maycomb is an old and tired town that puts a negative light on the town and the people. The poverty and lack of outside influence causes prejudice. The backwardness and narrow-mindedness of the community fuelled racism in Mayco...
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1,159 wordsEDUCATING ETHICAL BEHAVIOR: ARISTOTLE'S VIEWS ON AKRASIA Deborah Kerdeman University of Washington "Can the teaching of ethics really help cleanse the business world of shady dealings?" Asked by Newsweek magazine during the height of the recent Wall-Street scandals, 1 this query resonates with perennial concerns about whether or not virtue can be taught and how such instruction might best be effected. The problem, Newsweek declares, is not that students lack ethical standards or are incapable of...
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Ethical Conduct Moral Education
1,169 words... to a conception of its object as something pleasant; in this sense both have their "reasons. " 20 These "reasons, " of course, are very low-level. They are primitive, Burnyeat tells us, because they do not invariably or immediately lose efficacy in the face of contrary considerations. They are, in short, "pockets" of thought that remain relatively unaffected by our overall view of things. Thus, while appetite and instinct may be evaluations, they do not signify logical or analytical reasonin...
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Antisocial Personality Disorder American Psychiatric Association
616 wordsThere is a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others occurring since age 15 years, as indicated by three (or more) of the following: 1) failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest 2) deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure. 3) impulsivity or failure to plan ahead 4) irritability and aggressiveness, a...
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Ten Psychological Appeals Brand Loyalty
927 wordsIn a Winston cigarette company advertisement that I found in a magazine, group of young and attractive people, who are smiling and presumably having fun, is shown. In the bottom, there is a sign: Can you say that we are cannot rest? This advertisement is for Winston cigarettes but there is not one cigarette in the picture. All this image does is portray a people having a fun time and it simply puts two packs of Winston and Winston Lights in the upper right hand corner. It is not fair that compan...
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Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disease Or Not
2,377 wordsCompulsive Sexual Behavior: Disease or Not Sex and love addiction is a relatively new conception for understanding and treating compulsive sexual behavior and relationship dependency. This paper is aimed to prove that compulsive sexual behavior is a disease, driven sexual acting out and intensive, unending, and unhealthy romantic attachment. Compulsive sexual behavior requires treatment and recovery. Unfortunately, the medical profession continues to debate the diagnostic terminology to be appli...
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Tobacco Companies Brand Loyalty
1,549 wordsAdvertising and Cultural Consumption Advertising is all around us, its everywhere we look from the televisions in our homes to signs on the busses. It is almost impossible to avoid. Since advertising is such a big part of our social and economical environment, it is important that we know what these images our doing to us. Advertising influences us in many ways, often we do not even notice its effects. This is why advertising has become such a controversial topic today in our society. Advertisin...
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Happy Person Good Health
728 wordsAn emotion is an intense feeling. Happiness is one of the many emotions humans experience. It may perhaps be the most important feeling a person can have and it is the one feeling everyone strives to achieve, yet strangely, for the most part, people seem to only get a glimpse of it. Pleasurable satisfaction, a state of well-being and contentment are the more outstanding elements of happiness. Happiness, known more formally as felicity, is good. A state of well-being characterized by emotions ran...
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Good Or Bad Good Sense
1,522 wordsIt is very easy to recognize that there are differences in taste and beliefs among individuals. This is true for masses that have been raised and exposed to similar beliefs and biases, as well as for persons of different cultures. Taste, according to Hume, is the source of our judgments of natural and of moral beauty. (255) Since there are differences of taste among people, it would seem that beauty, which is an outcome of our taste, would be truly subjective. But after saying this thou, there s...
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Brave New World Human Mind
741 wordsHappiness in Brave New World When we look to define happiness, many different ideas come to mind. Webster s New Collegiate Dictionary uses three definitions for happiness: good fortune, a state of well being and contentment, and a pleasurable satisfaction. In Brave New World, Album Huxley argues that a society can redefine happiness through the government s manipulation of the environment and the human mind itself. The government accomplishes this by mind conditioning throughout the process of m...
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Health And Human Services Department Of Health And Human
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Amount Of People Bring Happiness
949 wordsIn discussing matters of right and wrong, it is essential to first lay down the foundation of these concepts. These terms are indeed concepts because they hold no certain truth to the general society. True, righteousness may be a measurement of happiness, lack of pain, or a circumstantial mode of contentment, however, if you consider one persons? happiness to be another persons? pain, then what is the true measurement of right? We see that there are actually two distinct aspects to this question...
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Oxford English Dictionary Put An End
1,048 wordsFor thousands of years music has been a major highlight of every culture around the world. Music has been used in diverse ways, ranging from worship to gods, holiday celebrations, to even national identity as in the case of national anthems. Music is without a doubt, man s best friend. It is present in every scenario of human life. It can be heard in the house, in the car, at work, at the store, at church, even to the extent that it is used in the bathroom. Its emotional influence in the lives o...
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