Philosophy Course Works Samples For Students

Question 1: Gramsci: Some Preliminary Points of Reference

Philosophy has had a long history in which it has been viewed as an ‘ivory tower’ pursuit – a subject which is to be studied by those who have either too much time or money on their hands. Through this view philosophy had no practical applicability and was simply a pass time for those who could afford it. Contrary to this view, Gramsci argued that not only is philosophy a practical subject of study – one which embodies the idea of ‘praxis’ but that every individual is a philosopher. This (somewhat deterministic) standpoint claims that all people are, in ...

My Leadership Traits and Competencies

Leadership and its related concepts are an area that has attracted the interest of several; researchers on the verge to develop an understanding of what makes good and bad leadership in an organization. Several believe and philosophies have been advanced to explain leadership. Besides, individual personality is also believed to have a great bearing to and a person’s leadership style (Drinon, 2012). Every person, good or bad, has his/her strengths and weakness. To become a better leader, one needs to focus on maintaining the strengths as he/she endeavors to improve on the weaknesses. This paper addresses on self-evaluation in which my ...

Metaparadigm is a term that distinguishes a discipline and gives that discipline an abstract view. It distinguishes one field of study from another. Metaparadigm is a combination of two words, Meta and paradigm. Fawcett defined metaparadigm of discipline as groups of statements that identify its phenomena in a global way and not specific. Fawcett explained the concepts that define the discipline. Fawcett identified four concepts of nursing as environment, health, nursing and human beings (Fawcett, 2005). The nursing discipline development has seen many challenges over the past century. Fawcett formulated that nursing is a distinct discipline composed of structural holarchies, which are integrated to ...

1. Identify the following as a proposition or a propositional function by writing p or pf next to the expression”

(a) x is sick = pf
(b) the first man on the moon = p
(c) oh to be free = p
(d) ‘x is human for all values of x = pf
(e) Somebody stole my camera = pf
(e) Eat dirt = p

2. (i) State a difficulty that arises about the interpretation of some sentence containing an expression such as: “everything,” “something,” or “nothing.” A difficulty interpreting using an absolute expression such as: “everything,” “something,” or “nothing.” to denote an element in a description is that ...

Learning a language is not an easy task, more so if it is a language so different from one’s mother tongue. Perhaps the most challenging part about language acquisition is learning grammar. However, there are two approaches to grammar which are highly recommended and commonly employed by educators: one is the formal approach, and the other is the functional approach.

In teaching English orthography, or the alphabetical spelling system used in the English language (Wikipedia), using the formal approach seems to be the best choice, in particular, the application of connectionism theory. Phonology and phonetics in grammar have very ...

Question 1:

Based on the readings found in Module 7, some of the major arguments on the use of the internet as an intelligence tool is who has the authority to use the internet as an intelligence tool. In the United States, there are several agencies created to counter terrorism attacks, where the functions of the agencies overlap sometimes. Another issue is how to use the information on the internet without violating the privacy of the organizations or the people involved.

Question 2:Personally speaking, I can say that there is a relationship between domestic terrorism and higher education. Likewise, there is a bigger ...

The correct way to lead one’s life and its relation to happiness has been studied by many philosophers, dating back to Aristotle and ancient Greece. The very nature of human existence begs the question of what men should do with their lives. This philosophical tradition climaxed with Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, who emphasized personal choice and commitment, inaugurating existential philosophy. After decades of developing this current of thought, existential psychotherapy was developed as a way to deal with the anxiety that the uncertain nature of man’s place in the cosmos provokes through a special kind of human relation. Through ...

The book Gulliver’s Travel is a parody of science fiction. The witty dialogues and storyline created a subtle plot that mocks the vices human behavior. It deals with political ambitions of man, physical attributes, intellectual and moral aspects. As such, this story is a comedy masterpiece that tackles about stupidities of humanity. Mainly, the whole storyline was a satire itself, inspired by Swift’s pitiful social life. During his time, England was ruled by two opposing political parties of Tories and Whigs.

His father was an Englishman who died upon his birth, after that his own mother abandoned him. He solely became ...

Assignment 1

In my previous paper, I outlined some of the encounters that I can describe as defining moments. As a matter of fact, a defining moment is any instance that in one way or another affects the life course of a person. Apparently, the defining moments as narrated before were the meeting with the motivational speaker, and the unfortunate squabble between my best friend and me in our adolescent days. Clearly, of these encounters the former was quite inspiring and constructive. On the contrary, the latter was characterized by adversity because after the encounter, I was regretful, stressed out and shamefaced. These feelings ...

Progressivism philosophy education is based on the belief that the education should put concentration and focus on the child as a whole rather than focusing on the teacher or content. This philosophy of education proposes that the ideas of the children should be tested through active experimentation. The learning activity is mainly based on the questions raised by the learners that arise as they experience the world. This is an active philosophy of education as opposed to the other passive theories of education.in this philosophy of education the learner is the problem solver and a thinker in the learning process. The ...

The theory of connectionism seeks to explain the human intellectual activities with the aid of artificial neural networks which are also called neural nets or networks. These neural networks are simply models of the brain that are made up of larger units. They help with weights that are used to measure the connections between units. Connectionism offers an alternative approach to the classical theory of the mind and philosophers are interested in connectionism because through it it is easier to learn skills such as reading and face recognition.

Connectionism offers the principle of explaining how mental phenomena can be ...

Carmel: Is it ever right then to harm another person? Say that there is a situation where a person has given his promise to protect a child from harm. And say as the child walks upon a road, lo, a robber comes and puts the child in harm’s way? Would the ethical, correct moral thing to do be to protect the child from harm even if it means inflicting harm upon the robber.

Socrates: Seen from that angle Carmel, this issue is only seen in the half-light. You identify correctly that the man’s promise to protect the child is a binding promise. Indeed, ...

Introduction

A servant leader leads with the mentality of a servant. Servant leadership begins with the urge to lead which triggers the conscience to aspire to lead. A servant leader has no self gratifying wishes. He carries the interests of the followers at heart. He knows that the task at hand is such huge that he cannot afford to fail. Chances of aborting the vision the servant leader carries arise, but he has the courage to soldier on despite the challenge (Blanchard, 2003). Servant leadership combines both leadership philosophy and practices of leadership. It prides itself in sharing of power as ...

How can we be certain of anything? What if your mind is an artificial intelligence programmed to think it is a human being living in the 21st century; how would you know the difference? Furthermore, how could we know anything about forces and entities outside our laws of physics—for example, the existence and characteristics of God(s)? The uncertainty concerning the authenticity of claims, opinions, and perceptions—both scientific and spiritual—has challenged philosophers for ages. The fourth and fifth chapters of “Philosophy Made Simple,” by Richard H. Popkin and Avrum Stroll, discussed the Philosophy of ...

One of the most important things I have learnt since I began my course in nursing is the enormous responsibility placed on the nurse on a daily basis. The magnitude of the responsibility is defined by the needs to transformation of theoretical skills into practice to ensure quality care, while giving the patient that extra bit of knowledge on self-care. Similarly, it involves ensuring that they remain hopeful of a healthy tomorrow. At first, I thought of nursing as any other career where you can come to work, do your part and leave once you are done with your part. However, ...

Annotated Bibliography

Grosch, P., Large, W., Wenham, D., Appleton, J., Astley, J., Fiddes, P., & Hick, J. (n.d.). Kant's Categorical Imperative.
This article talks about the authors’ view concerning Kant’s Categorical Imperative. Grosch claims that people are free and rational agents that have the ability to formulate maxims that guide the moral lives. The authors also state that that it depends on the people to offer moral content. As long as the people are ready to submit to the maxim to test the moral law and discard them if they seem not to follow it and confirm ...

Question 1: In Plato’s Symposium, he mentions about love being specifically related to form. I particularly am interested in the concept of relating love [or human emotion for affection] in consideration the realization of physical beauty in a person for whom such affection is being felt.

Love in itself is a form of emotion. However, Plato showed in his symposium, that love, among all affections, is powerful. The type of love noted as ‘eros’ tries to show an understanding of how humans develop a sense of love for another. The confusing matter in this case is how eros was used ...

Good Will and Happiness in the Society

- Define the term categorical imperative and give at least three examples of categorical imperatives that you believe in.

According to the Kantian moral psychology, he holds that the categorical imperative is the fundamental principle of our moral duties. A categorical imperative refers to the moral command or obligation that is universally and unconditionally binding for all members of a given society. The Kantian moral philosophy believes that members of the society treat each other in a manner that they would also wish to be treated (MacKinnon, 2013). The categorical imperative, or command, therefore, guides the morality of human beings since ...

Since I embarked on the PPE major, I have been furnished with information on the fields of politics, philosophy and economics. I have become more acquainted to the fields than I thought possible and thus able to look beyond limit of academic disciplines. The PPE program has offered me an integrated study of its various constituents. I was qualified for a PPE major after successful completion of a foreign language that rhymes with my concentration for four semesters. The study of a foreign language was fascinating. The verity that I could currently talk to people of the language and also had an ...

1. The word “philosophy” means in Greek “the love/pursuit of wisdom” – considering the first Greek philosophers (the Pre-Socratics), what propelled them to pursue a new kind of “wisdom”? What were they unsatisfied with?

The pre-Socratic philosophers were referred to as physiologoi, meaning physical or natural philosophers. They sought to provide natural and rational justifications for various occurrences. The “essence of things” propelled them to pursue new king of wisdom by posing questions such as; where does everything come from? Can nature be explained mathematically? From what does everything emanate? As such, their concerns were ontology, mathematics, and cosmology. They were unsatisfied with the mythological explanations to the occurrences that were being experienced during their time and sought to provide reasoned explanations to natural occurrences.

2. How are the concepts of Lack (Poverty) and Resourcefulness (Resource) pertinent to Philosophy (and Love, according to Plato)? What does the philosopher lack, what resources does he/she have that enables him/her to attain what is lacking?

The concept of love depicts the fullness ...

1. The author of quote number one is Thomas Paine; the book is an American crisis. It is significant in establishing solutions when America had a great crisis.
2. The author of quote number two is Philip Freneau and the book is “On Mr. Paine’s Rights of Man.”The significance of this quote was during the American Revolution where Paine where he wanted changes but was very conservative.
3. The author of quote number three is Washington Irving and the book is Rip Van Winkle. Its significance is when an old man is curious in manners ...

Niccolo Machiavelli, a politician, Italian historian, and a philosopher was born in Florence, Italy on May 3, 1469. He had little or no interest in philosophy as he believed that the role of philosophy in human analysis must be lesser than the real-world political apprehensions. His short book “The Prince” considered to be his masterpiece gained wide readership as the book contained some strong and real-world perceptions into human behavior and it also portrayed the negative view of human nature. The Prince is a mild disapproval that the rulers should be polite and principled in their character.

Machiavelli’s political philosophy intimately ...

1. The Five Guys’ philosophy employed targets the welfare of their customers to realize higher sales and large profit margins. This philosophy “we figure our best salesman is our customer”, has enabled the enterprise rake in profits. Their believe and focus is laid on treating their customers well with quality products a factor that makes them sell out their name. They ensure they offer to quality products to their customers at prices determined from the sale of the ingredients. Customers retain their good relations due to offering of quality products at prices worth the quality of the goods a key ...

The sculpture of Figure 1 is located over a doorway on the Wheelock College campus, 200 Riverway, Boston, Massachusetts. Wheelock College is an institution specializing in the education of teachers. This sculpture depicts Friedrich Froebel, the founder of the kindergarten movement and a founder of Wheelock College. The sculpture shows the teacher surrounded by a group of his pupils of the ages before, during, and after kindergarten. A number of the children are playing with blocks and balls, indicative of the Froebel’s philosophy of the role of creative play in the education of young children (Bultman, 2008). In particular, the ball ...

In modern times, the everyday usage of the term “materialism” has a very different meaning compared to how ancient Greek philosophers like Plato, Socrates and Aristotle would have used it. When contemporary people speak of a materialistic person, they are most likely thinking of someone who places very high value on money and material possessions, and is perhaps also selfish, greedy and narcissistic. They care more about things than they do about other people, or about ethics, relationships and the larger society. A materialist like this is the product of a modern consumer society, which of course was very different from ...

As a firm Christian believer and a former soldier, my great grand father believed that both the poor and the rich have a place in heaven. He in many occasions asserted that what deter man from the great opportunity to meet with his creator once he leaves the world is the cumulative wrongs if they outweighed the good deeds he did while he was alive. As a former solder and a patriot he had never been involved in any act that contravened the law.

Ones a soldier always a soldier that was his firm virtue and his philosophy remained wrong beget wrong and evil is paid ...

Summary of leadership philosophy

Every leader in society or organization has their personal approach and perception towards doing things. Leadership must be guided by specific philosophies that provide direction on how to achieve the desired results and performance. A leadership philosophy is quite different from leadership styles or models. A leadership philosophy focuses on how a leader behaves and his characteristics. It is the detailed kind of leadership a certain leader offers to his subjects. The philosophy I hold towards leadership is a combination of two philosophies. My leadership philosophy is to offer leadership that is based on ethics, servants and values.

Leadership should be centred ...

1. The Development Perception: Sensory learning, Auditory-hearing, Tactile-touching, Sight-seeing, Smell, Taste

- What are the guidelines for nurturing optimal brain growth? How brain maturation is linked sensory development? According to Willis and Riccuiti “Play in developmental experiences is an integral part of the infant's daily experience, occur naturally in interactions with the world” (Stancoe.Org, n.d.). An infant early nurturing and positive guidance creates a bond of love and care between parent and a child which enable a child to develop attachment, active involvement with people, exploring new skills, ability to remember and development of good personality. Brain maturation is linked through sensory development when infants changing behavior is the direct consequence ...

Baroque is a movement which was characterized by absolutism, theCounter Reformation and catholic revival majorly in the Western Europe. Thebaroque painting which best illustrates Gabrieli music selection style;especially, the venation polychoral style is the architecturalpainting. Thispainting,I feel could best illustrate the Gabrieli music style due to several relationships that they have in their genres. It could be wise to note that the Gabrieli venation style involved religious groups for example the organized choir style within a church. On the other side; the architectural painting was also characterized by church activities, actual loctaions of scenes followed by precedent in painting ...

Retribution is a theory of criminal punishment that states that society must punish those who have committed a crime. There is no further justification needed for the punishment except that the offender deserves to be punished because of the crime he committed. According to Immanuel Kant, punishment is a condemnation of the wrongdoer because of his wickedness.

What is the history behind the use of retribution?

The use of retribution is part of any civilization which aims to punish those who have done wrong. Its history can be traced as far back during the biblical times through the middle ages . Even in these modern times, retribution still has a place in the ...

Phil Jones

Research paradigms
A research paradigm refers to a design, small, basic examples that are used to demonstrate procedures, methods and hypothetical points. It is also a framework guided by a set of beliefs and approaches concerning the world. Ontology, epistemology and methodology are examples of philosophical terms and represent the basic types of paradigms. Every research paradigm should be treated with the importance it deserves. A philosopher should not at any time ignore any paradigm, be it qualitative, quantitative or epistemology.
A proficient research should be a comparison of several other researches. For instance, a researcher should not be contented by the ...

The metaphysical poets John Donne and Andrew Marvell were two of the most known and most influential people with regards to metaphysical poetry. Although for the case of Marvell, it was only until after he died when his poems were published. Thus, it is only right that this discussion on metaphysical poetry be an analysis and literary assessment of their works. I have acquired two poems to discuss in this paper of comparison which are John Donne’s “The Flea” and Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” and see what defines these works as metaphysical and what ...

The Perfect Forms

Plato’s theory of perfect forms was meant to solve several problems. Among the problems the theory was supposed to solve were: how could human beings have a fulfilling and happy life in a world where they can lose everything they are attached to, and how the world would be both permanent and dynamic. Plato split existence into two; the material and transcendent realm of forms in order to solve these problems. Plato argues that the forms are transcendent in that they only exist in space and time, they are pure to mean they are separated other properties, they represent perfect ...

Abstract

This paper talks about the Nature of Philosophy and describes in detail the main inquiries of philosophy. An attempt has been made to explain areas that are widely accepted to be ‘main’ and of primary importance. These include the areas of Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics and Aesthetics.

The paper also delves into the approaches used by philosophers to address the numerous questions raised by each specific inquiry. These methods are described with respect to the modules of thinking or actions so used by contemporary as well as age-old philosophers.

The paper then goes on to explain how culture ...

Theory of justice is one of the political philosophy and moral works that has been developed in the twentieth century. It is very influential work of John Rawls’s which has great impact. In this theory, John attempts to develop a philosophy; in this philosophy he generates political structures which are intended to preserve individual liberty as well as social justice. In this attempt, John tries to counteract the predominant theory which explained that justice is intended for the greatest number of people to provide the greatest good. Therefore in this theory John looks into a person who is very ignorant ...

When Socrates was asked to suggest an alternative to his death sentence, he said he should be given free room and board for life, just like the Olympians.  Unfortunately, the 501 jurors deciding his case didn’t agree, and Socrates was executed by poison in 399 BC.  The charges? Corrupting the youth and not acknowledging Athen’s gods. 

No doubt the charges were trumped up and Socrates was executed for his radical philosophies that criticized the practices of the Athenian elite and attracted a following that included throngs of youth.  He saw politicians as corrupt, full of ...

The Five Guys Burger and Fries restaurant chain was opened in 1986 serving only handmade burgers with a single location in Arlington, VA. It was opened by Jerry Murrell together with his four sons, who still run the business to date. Today, the business has expanded to more than 1,000 locations in 47 states and six provinces in Canada (Burke, 2012). The firm’s mission statement is aligned to the philosophy that if you plan to sell hamburgers and French fries in the restaurant industry, which is already concentrated with competitors, you have to ensure that your hamburgers and ...

The best way to learn, as is well known, is by reflecting and regurgitating on any new information that have been learnt or acquired. This strategy helps the learner to gain a deeper insight into the concepts that have been newly learnt, and also improves the individual’s ability to apply these concepts. This essay looks at my reflection over the concepts learnt in this module. These are as discussed in the essay below.

It is well known that man is a social creature. Therefore, it means that there must be social studies aimed at understanding this social nature. This is ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay entitled “Self-Reliance” is one that praises the notions of non-conformity, stating that only the brave ones have the power to say no to the hypnotic influence of the masses. When a man believes in himself, knows what he must do and gives his voice enough potency to be heard, he has the power to live a rich and fulfilling life, simultaneously revealing spiritual and philosophical essence of life itself.

As one of the major philosophers of the movement referred to as Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson delves deep into the notion of the human self, the ...

Hypothetically, evidence and theory are alike. However, they are not the same in practice. Evidence-based practice has acquired eminence over most theoretical techniques in a number of fields, particularly in the sphere of health care. Both practices share the mutual objective of making the correct decisions and finding the most efficient solution for an identified difficulty. However, the two practices posses some underlying philosophical distinctions (Gilles, 1998).

Features

The distinction between the two practices can be traced to an ancient rift frequently found in philosophy and science, rationalism versus empiricism. Rationalists claimed that their senses are limited and that they place ...

Keys Ideas by Aristotle

The idea of causality, Aristotle “Four causes” theory shows us the different reasons for the existence of something. The four causes allow us to define what material cause is, the efficient cause, formal cause (essence) and final cause (purpose). On the subject of primitive soul, Aristotle imagines the relation of the body to reproduction and nutrition (Green, 2005). In addition, he puts his focus on the immense field of the sensitive soul. Scientists in shaping their explanations about the origin of the universe apply this theory. On the contrary, theologians apply the same theory in justification of God ...

The ethical quandary in Robert F. Ladenson’s Friends and Lovers presents a situation in which one member of a group of three friends, Claire, must make a decision about how to deal with information she has received intimately concerning her other two friends, Tony and Beth, who are engaged to be married. Tony has revealed he had a brief affair but asked Claire to keep the fact a secret, and Beth has asked Claire if she thinks something is “going on” with Tony. Claire’s decision on how to deal with the situation will differ depending on what type of ethics she ...

Introduction

In order to sufficiently define post-modernity, we need to look at the meaning of modernity since it is the predecessor to post-modernity. Modernism simply refers to a capability of moving forward and making some progress towards a given goal. Most of the theories that led to modernity rested on personal goals whereby each person wanted to maximize his/her interests and minimize the rate of dissatisfaction that they could be exposed to. Modernity can also be used to refer to the post industrial era which had several developments taking place. In order for a person to be fulfilled in modernity, he/she has to ...

Introduction

Studying Philosophy of Communication has been of great importance to my life. My communication skills have been enhanced and updated. My interpersonal communication skills have been sharpened and I can now interact creatively and interpretively with the society. It has equipped me with effective communications skills that allow me to care and interact with my family and the society effectively. Studying Philosophy of Communication has provided me the opportunity of learning new and efficient techniques of solving problems. In addition, I have acquired communication skills that will assist me to address various human issues.
Philosophy of Communication provides ...

Karen Moore is the HR director of a multinational company, QuestSource. The company has an office in Shanghai, and her Chinese counterpart is Tsang Yao, a pleasant, even-mannered man. While initially, Moore is pleased with the hiring and performance reports from China—believing that Tsang is doing a good job—she is later infuriated to learn that most of the hired employees are Tsang’s relatives. She takes this matter to her supervisor and the chief operating officer of the company, Daniel Young, who admonishes her for showing a lack of awareness regarding Chinese work culture. This paper analyses Moore’s reaction to ...

Hundreds and thousands of philosophers have been working on creating a clear and understandable model of the world around them.Undoubtedly, this process is endless and as soon as any purely computational picture appeared, it would promptly become a part of another model (mythology, scientific theory, ideology, someone’s world out look etc.) In other words, it would be absorbed by more complicated and complete model. While philosophers and other scientists keep on broaden their horizons, other individuals are doing it in their own way. (Mosser, 2011).
Informal logic appears to be the most efficient way to make the process easier, ...

William James is considered as being one of the American pioneers in the field of philosophy and psychology. His works covered a wide range of areas including educational psychology, mysticism and psychology of religion. Two of his writings which gave him a great recognition are the Principles of Psychology and Psychology: The Briefer Course. He was part of the proponents of pragmatism philosophy and functionalism in psychology. This paper aims at analyzing the contribution of William James in epistemology. Many prominent views in the modern epistemology and pragmatist approaches to epistemology are reflected in most of the writings of James, (William, ...

1. Ethics and Relativism

When it comes to the way people live their daily lives, ethical beliefs bear tangible implications. Generally, beliefs about such beliefs bear no appropriate or inevitable consequences Paul et al, (2008) When it comes to what people believe or take to be right for what they practically A specific question is if relativism, being a belief about beliefs, is workable or adequate basis for ethics. Many believe it is. Another burning issue is whether relativism in a position to maintain commitment, high moral standards, moral passion and courage, majority believes it can. In some cases for instance, other people do suffer ...

Hsun Tzu in his essay “Man’s nature is evil” tries to employ various strategies so as to convince the reader that human nature is truly wicked. He believes that the natural desires of a man are evil and if somebody follows his nature, he must be evil. This is a deductive reasoning that does not convince the reader since there are those who follow their nature and yet are still good. He says “Anyone who follows his nature must be involved in bickering and contention, and must disobey the societal rules and forms, and must be a criminal." Tzu uses various ...

Human Nature is Inherently Good

Sometimes it seems that people have forgotten what it is to be good. The world has turned into an evil and dangerous place of existence: constant terroristic acts, murders, hunger, diseases, etc. It is high time each and everyone stopped and thought about his human nature, about his inner good. However, despite the fact that the mankind is so cruel and evil, Mencius is convinced in the contrary, saying that all the people are naturally good.
Mencius says that, "Human nature is inherently good, just like water flows inherently downhill" (95). He claims that irrespective of personality, these ...

The rich history of the western culture is one thing that has always intrigued me. Every moment when we get a chance to revisit our past, we interestingly get to interact with a sudden newness that leaves our perspectives changed in a great manner. This is exactly how I feel when it comes to talking about the civilization which took place in the west.

The time span within which the civilization of the west took place saw the introduction of many aspects and ideas. Great minds were revealed and well known philosophers, psychologists and scientists played a big role in determining the face of ...

- Describe the basic issues in metaphysics and epistemology between Idealists and Materialists

Metaphysically and epistemologically, the philosophical view that human beings have both mind and body is termed as dualism. However, there is much philosophical disagreement (dichotomy) about the exact association between mind (spirit) and body (matter).

Idealists hold the view that the mind is distinct from physical objects while the materialists maintain the exact opposite. For the former, the self and personality are attributable to one’s immortal soul while for the latter, they assert that the mind (soul) is in some ways a product of the body. Furthermore, generally, idealists hold the view that the act of knowing takes place ...

- In Book 1 of the Republic, why does Socrates think that it is never just for one person to injure another, whether friend or enemy?
Socrates begins his argument with the proposition that justice consists in repayment of debts. The general argument was on the lines that one ought not to injure friends. Injuring enemies was considered to be acceptable. It was taken for granted that friends are good and enemies are bad. However, Socrates pointed out that a man can be seemingly good or bad. One who pretends to be a friend may have bad intentions at heart. ...

Part I. Philosophy of Education

Personal Identity

The element of philosophy of education that reflects my identity as an early childhood educator aligns with Bruner’s (1966) concept of Constructivism theory. In this concept, the learner transforms, selects information, and make decisions by focusing on constructing the knowledge itself. These knowledge are constructed through beliefs, personal experiences and previous knowledge (Bruner, 1966). As an educator, I encourage the student to present any form of information that they have previously learned and create an opportunity for them to develop prior knowledge into new discoveries.

Central Issues and Professional Values

The central values and issues involve in my philosophy is for me as ...

What You Can Learn from Starbucks
http://www.inc.com/resources/marketing/articles/20050401/starbucks.html

Starbucks is an experienced company that serves good quality coffee, and besides this it delivers great customer service, from which managers have only but to learn, as Adam Hanft, the writer of the article “What Can You Learn from Starbucks” observes after analyzing the setting and the environment that Starbuck creates for its clients. The author of this article provides some useful customer service related advices based on his own Starbucks experience and he encourages managers to use them or to go visit the nearest Starbucks whenever they need to ...

The concept of holiness in the dialogue between Euthyphro and Socrates emerges when Socrates insists that Euthyphro ought to have been perfectly informed of what is pious and what is impious prior to filing a murder charge against his own father. Socrates presence at the porch of the King Archon had been occasioned by a case of impiety brought against him by Meletus. The concept of holiness takes a prominent position in the discussion between Socrates and Euthyphro because Socrates wanted to learn of what is pious and what is impious so that he could defend himself in case. Euthyphro was considered ...

Existence of God

In the general sphere of religion, there are many conflicting issues pertaining to existence of God. This is mainly caused by the different ways in which religious faiths interpret the existence of God. However some other aspects of the existence of God are universally accepted across the different religious faiths. Some of these aspects are: omnipresence, all powerful, the creator and the Supreme Being (www.existence-of-god.com, paragraph 3).

Looking at some basic facts that are evident across all these arguments, there is a universal acceptance that God has unknown origin to human knowledge. This fact is supported by the fact that ...

Surveys

Direct analysis or surveys in sociology involve interview that go hand in hand. Surveys enable sociologists to get a wider scope of the results in terms of the sample size, and information can be collected from a lot of people. Moreover, technology enables to submit surveys to a lot of people through the internet by using e-mail, or the social media that in turn enables to save money and time as compared to the mailing out of the paper surveys. With the surveys, the researchers struggle in order to have the questions, which are most applicable and they have to do struggle ...

Google has a management team, which is headed by the chief executive officer and co-founder known as Larry Page. Larry page holds a bachelor’s degree in the field of engineering from Michigan state university. In addition, he as well holds a master in computer science from the University of Stanford. In terms of leadership, he forms the composition of the members of the national advisory committee in the University of Michigan’s department of engineering. Moreover, Larry together his co-founder he was accorded an honor of the Marconi Prize in the year 2004, and he forms a trusteeship partnership in the X ...

Leadership and management concerns in the organization encompass diverse concepts ranging from the application of appropriate leadership style, skills and traits, depending on the situation, the subordinates’ personalities, and that of the leader; as well as discerning varied situations that necessitate an analytical analysis of alternative courses of action that would assist problem solving and decision making. To comply with the requirements of the current discourse, the aim is to describe the different approaches of nursing leaders and managers to issues pertinent to continuous quality improvement and patient satisfaction, which is included in the list.

Continuous Quality Improvement and Patient Satisfaction

In a health care environment, ...