Idealism Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

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After reading Barnes and Smith, what are your thoughts on whether Corporations have a responsibility to society beyond maximizing profit? Do you agree with Peter Drucker that if corporations are to continue to enjoy success managers must step beyond self-interested behavior and assume responsibility for the public good? Or, do you agree with Milton Friedman, that spending shareholder's property against their wishes is immoral? Support your conclusions with outside references and resources.

I agree that any organizations and corporation’s responsibility is not limited to increasing its product line and merchandises and maximizing profit only, but also to the society ...

Introduction

After the World War II, the US became one of the most powerful nations in the world in par with the United Kingdom. The span of American power is not determined by its highly trained military units and rich wealth distribution; the American power primarily lies on the cultural aspects especially most writers, both foreign and native Americans discuss the premise of the American Dream, a philosophical ideology which became an integral part in forming the nation’s identity. As early as 1931, the famous American historian named James Truslow Adams envisioned an ideal land which follows the utopian ideals in ...

For many centuries, this sonnet divided scholars in their responses to it. Many felt that Shakespeare was being deliberately critical of his lover and, therefore, were inclined to dismiss it as a rather cynical poem disparaging his mistress – unconventional for its time, but still straightforward. (Matz, 47). However, there is now a wider critical consensus that this poem is a comic parody of the type of exaggerated love poems written by some of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. (Matz, 48). Crutwell writes:

Vendler says, “ this sonnet is a reply poem to a poet who has just written a sonnet to his mistress....Shakespeare’s speaker retorts, I don’ ...

Historical-materialist perspective associated with Marx and Engels

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx developed the concept of the historical materialism also known as the materialist conception of history. One of the main building blocks of this concept is the Hegel's argument that history arises from a dialectic/conflict of the contrasting forces in the society. According to Hegel's claim, the world that we live is a world of appearances, and the state of reality where an individual and the absolute are reunified defines the end of the story. To form a theory of historical materialism, Marx and Engels accepted the idea of dialectic but refuted the Hegel's notion ...

Descartes argues that there are two equal world beginnings, i.e. "mind or mental substance, and body or physical substance" (Philosophy of Mind, 2016, p. 5). The main property of the first beginning is the thought, while the second one operates with the length. Both phenomena coexist in the world, moreover, these two principles are everlasting, and none of them dominates the other. However, Descartes says that God created these substances, which means that his dualism is approaching idealism, as dualism "could be based upon religion, belief in life after death, or belief that people are more valuable than mere ...

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Indigenous people (the Cree) vs. British settlers: How does the confrontation between Mrs. Andersen and Crow Eagle dramatize the differing values and the racist attitudes that created conflicts between two cultures?
The confrontation between Mrs. Anderson and Crow Eagle served to show just how different the Canadians and the Indians are. It also showed a question of what it really means for a person to be civilized.
In the play, Mrs. Anderson reported Crow Eagle for stealing her ‘bath tub’. Her point was that stealing ...

In Yann Martel’s fantasy adventure novel, Life of Pi, the elderly man Francis Adirubasamy, who tells Martel Pi’s story claims, “I have a story that will make you believe in God” (Martel, 2001, p. viii). It is not surprising that the publisher has used this claim to promote the book. Nonetheless, it is a significantly strong claim that one cannot easily oppose. Life of Pi is a bold, daring novel, in which Martel asks readers why they do not believe in God and it makes them believe. However, the truth is that the phenomenal success of this bestselling novel and its ‘ ...