Essays on Communal Living

In 1516 Thomas More published Utopia which described a perfect society situated on an unknown island. This book has become an embodiment of the perfect society from these times to the present. This book was not only a beginning of a new age in evaluating a prototype of the society, but also a new stage in literature. This book is still the most provocative and has a lot of opponents. As a proving example, The Guardian (‘Utopias, past and present: why Thomas More remains astonishingly radical’, 2015) reveals that this book is not a favorite one in Buckingham Palace. ...

Executive summary

The research paper analyzed the disputes in the Dwight Babcock Condominium with the aim of identifying the sources of disputes and amplifying of the proper conflict resolution processes. It identified self-interests and laxity to enforce the Window Replacement Policy as the cause of the disputes. Nonetheless, the study indicates that applied the processes such as voting, emails exchange and annual general meeting after the dispute employed mediation, arbitration and negotiation to solve the disputed matter in the Condo Association.

General outline

The research paper will analyze the causes, methods of resolution and conclusions based on the findings of the study. In ...

Introduction

Oneida Community is an 1848 community that had diverse ideologies on the return of Jesus. John Humphrey Noyes is the founder of the community and believed that he possessed divine authority over the Oneida Community, which was directly given to him by God. This belief got support from the public, hence allowing him to rule the people of the community (Foster, 2009 p 35). It was controversial to abide by the rule that entitled Noyes the duty of giving birth to a child to serve as a birth control strategy.

The other major controversial issue was the mutual criticism policy where a member ...

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Review of Essay “Cell Block, Egospheres, Self-Container” It is extremely common for most single people to live in studio apartments or a similar structure. Most people, however, would not know the various aspects behind the evolution and the view behind these particular living spaces. This paper will review certain concepts put forth by Peter Sloterdijk in his article beginning with the concept of egosphere, then proceeding on to the concept of ‘the cell’ and then to the idea of self-pairing. The paper will, further, also review the relation between the concept of ‘the cell’ and then to the idea ...

The evolution of moral values follows the arc of ancient Greek society, from its martial antecedents in the Homeric age through the blossoming of high culture that immortalized the Athenians to the subjective meditations of the Stoics. The series of armed conflicts that archaeologists have identified as the Trojan War (circa 1200 B.C.) were manifestations of ancient Mycenaean culture, an Indo-European civilization characterized by warfare and the virtues of physical courage. From this heroic past came the concepts of arete, or “excellence,” and agathos, roughly translated as “good.” A close reading of Homer reveals that “agathos is used to ...