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Is Business Bluffing Ethical
1,613 wordsAlbert Carr stated that legality and profits are the only standard that people in business should follow. In Carrs article Is business bluffing ethical? he compared and found the rules of business to be similar with the rules of poker. In a game of poker, bluffing is a central part of the game and this is known and accepted by all the players. So bluffing in poker is not considered morally wrong. If in business everyone understands that bluffing is okay, should we still consider bluffing immoral...
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Marx Theory Of Money
1,301 words... kingly, "Suppose moreover, six hours of average labour to be also realized in a quantity of gold equal to 3 s... " (Marx 1968, p. 211). To speak this way, Marx must have a conception of the value of money as the ratio of labor time to value added that permits him to translate labor time into monetary units. When he makes remarks like the second one he goes further and identifies this value of money with the labor time embodied in a certain quantity of gold. One result of Marx's adoption of t...
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The Iliad Violent Mentality
1,720 wordsThe Birth of the Violent Mentality I must admit that Homer is a gifted writer. Homer? s selection of words and rhythmic poetry attract and take control of readers? minds. The attractiveness of Homer? s writing places his readers in a state of vulnerability. Readers may learn to accept principles that are not conducive to their intellectual or social well being. Should not this talent of writing be used to contribute to the progress or growth of worthwhile standards? In Homer? s epic The Iliad, w...
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Human Rights Thomas Hobbes
899 wordsTriumph of Humanity. The question of human rights is as old as the society itself. The best philosophers and thinkers of the humanity have been trying to define the criteria of human rights. Thomas Hobbes worked out the theory of the human rights transfer from the individual to the sovereign, government. According to Hobbes these rights should not contradict to the laws of the Nature, . man can transferred his Right to save himself from Death, Wounds, and Imprisonment 1. One of the brilliant sci...
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Memories In Tintern Abbey
2,508 wordsMemories in Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey In 18 th century Western Europe, an artistic and intellectual movement arose. This movement came in the history of ideas, often referred to in a similar vein to an approach called intellectual history (Wikipedia). Indeed, as the name says, the Romantic period was characterized by strong emotions which include awe, horror, caution and many other aesthetic experiences (Wikipedia). The period greatly stressed the nature in art and language. This was the time w...
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Quantum Theory Catch 22
1,464 wordsThrough religion, philosophy, science, art, and mathematics, humans quest for an Absolute. They seek to find a still point where conflict cannot burgeon and principles may converge to an essential Truth. However, in Catch- 22 Joseph Heller suggests the unsettling idea that Life holds no pervasive absolute because in actuality Life is the continual clash of absolutes. Through the main character Yossarian, one is able to understand how the individual creates a world applicable only to himself; how...
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Death Of A Salesman Pursuit Of The American Dream
1,435 wordsDeath of A Salesman In the play Death of A Salesman, Arthur Miller displays the successes and failures in the pursuit of the American Dream. Although obviously a victim of the capitalist system, Willy is still an ardent supporter and believer in the American Dream, and in this he is solidly supported by his faithful wife Linda (Fletcher 9). Along with the American Dream and its failure comes a tragic hero, and with that a tragic flaw. Although it is a drama dealing with death and suffering, Deat...
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Power Of God Ability To Choose
1,535 wordsIntercultural Matriarchal Figures in Gershon s Ruth and Esther Gershon uses biblical midrash to reexamine the place of the matriarchal figure after the Shoah. Both poems center on one central female from the bible, although one is identified as a Jew, while one is identified as furthering the lineage of Christ. Both poems give these women the power of choice, which they do not have in the typical biblical text. Both poems show the power of man as motivation over the power of God. Although there ...
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God Power
839 wordsLa Croix in his essay disputes the position set forth by Harry Frankfurt in his article Descartes on the Creation of the Eternal Truths (The Philosophical Review, 1977), charging that Frankfurt misrepresents Descartes? view of God? s nature and power. According to La Croix, Frankfurt holds that, in claiming that God created the eternal truths and could have done the opposite with respect to establishing the law of contradiction, Descartes conceived of God? s power as extending beyond the laws of...
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Moral Judgements Moby Dick
3,588 wordsRichard B. Sewall claims that Melville's vision in Moby-Dick is a cruel reminder of the original terror, in which all moral judgements are accompanied by tensions, paradoxes, and ambiguities. In response to this statement, I agree that all moral judgements are fraught with tensions, paradoxes and ambiguities. Much of Ishmael's experiences while on land and at sea deal with making moral judgements; the act of forming an opinion by discerning what is right and wrong. Melville uses Ishmael to prove...
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