Essays on Conceptions

1. Copyright is not optimized to foster musical creativity. Discuss this statement with reference to examples. The mechanism of copyright control can pose significant threat to innovation and creativity in the music industry, because the copyright can fail to sufficiently recognize the relevance of uses of the musical piece as a creative force. Innovation in music, for example, has been performed in many scenarios by creators taking the creative risks by using existing materials in such a manner that does not fit effectively within the assumptions of the dominant copyright about creativity. Creators that operate within such paradigms of ...

Introduction

Under the social contract theories of Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, it was stated that initially a human being lived in the society without any government and there was no law to control his actions. As a result, various unions were formed to secure and defend individual’s rights, since lack of government and laws resulted in injustice and problems within the society. These unions aimed to protect individual’s life and property, and to make sure that his rights are not being violated. The authority or the government was formed under the unity called Pactum unionist and subjections ...

1. Misconceptions Money generation remains central to economic activity. The process of how money is generated / created and destroyed is not, in fact, readily understood and is subject to numerous misconceptions. If anything, main conceptions about money creation and destroy assumes a linear conceptualization mode. Typically, money is widely – but mistakenly – believed to be created and destroyed by a direct relationship by which an owner places money deposits in a financial institution which, sooner or later, lends money to borrowers and hence creates more money. In modern era, particularly in a global financial system in which financial transactions ...

Charles S. Peirce is one of the most prominent developers of pragmatism philosophy. The article by Peirce deals with concepts of different ideas. Logicians divide ideas on clear and obscure, distinct and confused. For many years, these conceptions have not changed and have not been revised, although the life and people change. Logicians used these conceptions for many years, but in fact they belong to “extinguished” philosophy. The author stresses that there is need of new formulations.

According to Peirce there 3 stages of clearness:

Familiarity Distinctness Pragmatistic exposition (Pierce) Clear idea is so understandable that it will be identified wherever it is met with, and so ...

Introduction

People have always been fascinated about how language affects their thoughts or even the process of thinking. Considering this thought, is it then right to say that people from different language groups speak differently? This paper’s thesis statement argues that language simply serves as a medium of communication and is therefore only a means that can be used to interpret how unique and different people and groups of people are from each other. The argument that suggests that language affects people’s thoughts is based on the idea that language is what determines how moral or crooked one ...

Business Ethics

Business Ethics Business ethics refer to the just principles that serve as a guideline on the conduct and management of every business. Generally, the ethical principles that apply to an individual are likewise applicable to most businesses. Some people claimed it to be just knowing about the right and wrong practices, however, a closer examination reveals that good ethical practice in the business may differ across organizations. This paper aims to provide an examination of different point of views towards business ethics.

In an article entitled The Merits of Self-leadership, the author came up with a commentary about the ...

Interpreting a text is a process in which one must take into account many details that the author provides or leaves out. Even though many believe that what the text actually says is what is most important, what one cannot actually find there is sometimes more important than what one does actually encounter. It is through this lens that Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” should be read, not through what is directly talked about, but what is not said. As its title states, a significant portion of the short story is dedicated ...

Article Critiques

The following article will analyze Jorgen Sandberg's journal article on human competence published by the Academy of Management Journal in 2001 with specific emphasis on the study and research design and objectives, theoretical framework, literature review, research approach, clarity of methodology and the presentation of the results. The goal of this critique is to offer an opinion on the structure, approach and content of the article.

Sandberg sets out to study on competence using an interpretive approach, as opposed to the conventional rationalistic approaches that have been used to study competence in a work situation. Normally, in studying the ...

What do we think about when we hear the word “museum”? Actually, I cannot tell about all the people, but the first thing I think about is history. There are hundreds, thousands, millions of museums all over the world! I consider them to be places, that accumulate examples of some non-material conceptions like art, ethnology, history or science, and many other conceptions. All of them are really important for humanity. And most of them are very spiritual. Do you remember your school studying, when all the group was taken to a museum and told about its history, meaning ...

Hegel took idealism to its most extreme point with his absolute idealism. This idea can be best understood in the established relationship between being and identity that he discusses. This relationship is essential in order for the individual to attain knowledge of the world. Furthermore, this knowledge is fundamentally predicated on the associations between subjective perceptions and established objective truth. The universalization of the particular through the lens of personal experience therefore becomes an essential aspect of his philosophic inquiry. Subject and object, codified by normative experience, are the source of idealism within Hegel's perspective. Hegel's argument rests on ...

In looking at how disciplinary power is used in order to discipline individuals into obeying the State it is evident that there were various values that arose in modern society that presented the need to replace these methods. Analysis of the forms and practices of punishment and surveillance according to the theories of Foucault and Nietzsche demonstrate that these methods were often implemented through the power and authority of the state itself and the punishments that were adopted were done so in relation to the values and principles of the ruling class. In developing these distinctions, an understanding of ...