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Chinese Communist Party Billion Dollars Worth
2,196 wordsTwo years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, it became apparent to many of China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. During his tenure as China's premier, Mao had encouraged social movements such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution which had had as their bases ideologies such as serving the people and maintaining the class struggle. By 1978 "Chinese leaders were searching for a solution to serious economic problems produced by Hua Guofeng, the man who had succeede...
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Chinese Communist Party Billion Dollars Worth
2,412 wordsTwo years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, it became apparent to many of China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. During his tenure as China's premier, Mao had encouraged social movements such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, which had had as their base ideologies such as serving the people and maintaining the class struggle. By 1978 "Chinese leaders were searching for a solution to serious economic problems produced by Hua Guofeng, the man who had succeede...
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Three Chinese Schools Of Thought
1,893 wordsThe three schools of thought-Confucian, Taoist, and Legalist, all have different views and reasons as to whether or not the United States should be involved in the conflict in Kosovo. Each school perceived Tao in different ways and had different views on human nature. To consider how each school would take its side on this issue, we must first have some background information on the Confucius was one of the main contributors of the Confucian school of thought. He had one overwhelming message: if...
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Hundreds Of Years Ago Ultimate Goal
1,006 wordsPrior to a look at Aristotle's ethics, I feel it is important to look at the man and his background. Aristotle, an Ionian, was born in Stagira, a Greek town on the northwest shores of the Aegean Sea in 384 B. C. At the age of eighteen he entered Plato's school called the Academy, staying there for nearly twenty years. Plato was quick to realize Aristotle's abilities and called him the Academy's "brightest and most learned student." While there he wrote "popular writings" for general discussion o...
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C S Lewis And Natural Law
2,349 words... (Abolition 46) The Magician's Nephew, the tale of the creation of Narnia, gives two characters who exemplify the Controllers -- Jadis and Uncle AndrewKetterley. Both claimed to be above Natural Law; they had "a high and lonely destiny. " Jadis was a monarch and Uncle Andrew was a magician, but both were strongly suggestive of modern science gone wrong. They bothwell that common rules are fine for common people, but that singular great people must be free-to experiment without limits in searc...
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Dead Sea Scrolls Jesus Of Nazareth
2,607 wordsIn 1947 an Arab shepherd boy was throwing stones at the opening of a cave above him near the shore of the Dead Sea. He heard a jar break and climbed up the cliff to investigate. What he discovered has revolutionized the study of the Bible. There, in that cave, stuffed in jars, were scores of papyrus scrolls covering almost every book of the Old Testament. While other scrolls have been discovered since, in caves all along the Dead Sea, the scrolls at Qumran are by far the most important as far as...
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Ethical Egoism Versus Virtue Ethics
554 wordsTheories concern ideas of how things are or how things ought to be. Ethical theories are concerned with what morally ought to be the case. There are three types of general ethical theories: Consequentialism, Deontology, and Human Nature Ethics. Consequentialism is mainly concerned with bringing about proper ends of acting. Its descriptive claim is that every action seeks a particular end. Deontology concentrates on moral duty, i. e. , the general principles that ought to guide our actions. Moreo...
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Live Their Lives Human Soul
1,275 wordsDuring the age of Epicureanism, people questioned the philosophy of Epicurus. In order to understand the history of Epicureanism, the person must first understand the knowledge of how and why it came to be. The how part which helps people to better understand the teachings of Epicureanism is "the art of making life happy. " To people in Athens this was reflected by the people as to why they not live their lives to fully while they are in this world. As for the why part, Epicurus decided in 310 B...
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Slave Morality Judeo Christian
662 wordsEthics The ethics is often referred to as the branch of philosophy related to the standards by which human actions can be perceived right or wrong and is related to the nature of ultimate value. According to Aristotle, ethics was examined as a sphere distinct from other theoretical sciences. Aristotle claimed that the methodology of the ethics should match good action. He agreed with Plato's and Socrates point of view that the virtues should be central to a well-lived life. In his Nicomachea n E...
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Nicomachean Ethics Personal Lives
1,931 wordsUniversity: Lecturer: Course: Date: Aristotle's ideas on happiness, justice, and friendship Aristotle's ideas on human virtues ultimately became compiled into ten books commonly called the Nicomachean Ethics. Nicomachus was Aristotle's son, and whether the ten books were written by Aristotle as a dedication to the son, or were compiled by the son, is not clear. Suffice it to say that the ten books covered virtually all facets of living as perceived in those days. Even now, most of what was writt...
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Political Thought John Adams
1,067 wordsPolitics and Hope: American Visions In his work "Liberalism, Natural Law and the Individual: Egoism and Sociability in the Work of Hugo Grotius" Kristy King estimates the value of Grotius works. The author emphasizes the role of sociability in them. It is said that Grotius (High de Groot) was a great jurist and humanist and the founder of international law. He was the author of the work De jure belli in which he examined the law of war and peace. King says about Grotius investigation of natural ...
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Plato Symposium Greek Philosophers
1,757 wordsEven nowadays people are still looking for the ways of understanding the nature of the feeling that we call Love. Since the time of ancient Greece people have been arguing about this problem finding new and new explanations of this strange feeling, its origin, its nature, if it is necessary for people or not. Plato's Symposium is a store of the great Greek philosophers opinion. The most intelligent and educated people gathered to discuss the nature of Love and to build an opinion on the base of ...
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Point Of View Social Status
746 wordsHow is justice manifested in society according to Confucius (with examples): Confucius point of view on justice is rather different from the one that is socially accepted and virtually taken for granted today. Back in the days of this philosopher justice was something more than simply giving someone what he or she deserved. Five hundred years before Christ was born people were thinking in different way, and justice meant for them something universally good. To the people of those times, and in p...
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Day And Age Arts And Sciences
1,507 wordsThe Enlightenment Torn Apart Based on Rousseau's criticism of Enlightenment ideas, the French Revolution did and did not implement the ways of the Enlightenment. Rousseau sees a number of problems within the thinking of the Enlightenment, preferably when dealing with the arts and sciences. It is for this reason alone that the French Revolution in actuality did not implement the ideas of the Enlightenment. In fact, all of the actions that took place in the French Revolution totally came into agre...
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Existence Of God Teleological Argument
1,117 wordsGreek philosopher and educational reformer of the fifth century B. C. ; born at Athens, 469 B. C. ; died there, 399 B. C. After having received the usual Athenian education in music (which included literature), geometry, and gymnastics, he practised for a time the craft of sculptor, working, we are told, in his fathers workshop. Admonished, as he tells us, by a divine call, he gave up his occupation in order to devote himself to the moral and intellectual reform of his fellow citizens. He believ...
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Sign Of Weakness Machiavelli
1,167 wordsMachiavellian Politics in The Prince The Prince, written by Niccolo Machiavelli, is one of the first examinations of politics and science from a purely scientific and rational perspective. Machiavelli theorizes that the state is only created if the people cooperate and work to maintain it. The state is also one of man? s greatest endeavors, and the state takes precedence over everything else. The state should be one? s primary focus, and maintaining the sovereignty of the state one? s most vital...
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1,156 wordsMachiavellian Politics in The Prince The Prince, written by Niccolo Machiavelli, is one of the first examinations of politics and science from a purely scientific and rational perspective. Machiavelli theorizes that the state is only created if the people cooperate and work to maintain it. The state is also one of mans greatest endeavors, and the state takes precedence over everything else. The state should be ones primary focus, and maintaining the sovereignty of the state ones most vital conce...
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Mona Lisa Clinton Administration
2,733 wordsstands for " Pretty PGP PGP stands for " Pretty Good Privacy. " It is an encryption program. What encryption does is hide information from people who do not know the " secret word" to reveal the information. Louis J. Freeh, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, says the honest have nothing to hide, and only criminals would use encryption. The honest, goes the implication, have no need of encryption. Let us think about that, for just a minute. The honest ha...
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Oxford Oxford University Kind Of Life
2,628 wordsIn his works, Plato writes about truth, justice, and reality in full detail. His ideas are greatly deep and persuasively argued. It is from him that all western philosophy is a footnote. He describes his view in a series of numerous dialogues. For my report, I have chosen four of his works to study, which I think were his most important. The Republic is a dialogue composed of 10 books. The theme in its entirety is justice. The characters of the dialogue are Socrates, who is the narrator; Glaucon...
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Utility Or Happiness Happiness Or Pleasure Increase
1,407 wordsSam Vaknins Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Is there any necessary connection between our actions and the happiness of others? Disregarding for a moment the murkiness of the definitions of actions in philosophical literature two types of answers were hitherto provided. Sentient Beings (referred to, in this essay, as Humans or persons) seem either to limit each other or to enhance each others actions. Mutual limitation is, for instance, evident in game theory. It d...
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