Absolute

of information is being sensed at one time and one does not recognize the slightest change. The lowest amount of energy to identify a sense is known as the absolute threshold. While, the smallest amount of energy added or taken away to notice a change is known as the difference threshold. The study that has been done was to show the absolute threshold and difference threshold. The study conducted was on three different people of different ages and tested their hearing on if the individuals…

The pinnacles of ethical behavior, the absolute truths, I had encouraged and correlated to religion and Space Jam reflected my selfishness and ignorance. Paradoxically, the things that I had said out of absolute compassion and care were seen as inherent evils. This event coupled with my Space Jam posse helped me realize that absolutes - whether they be religious beliefs or stringent philosophies - in practice, often have unforeseen consequences…

human being has intrinsic value. Further more each human adopts self-governance and the intelligence to act in accord with moral virtues. The culmination of moral ethos to which all actions, duties, and piety amass is a categorical imperative, or an absolute precept. Kant’s use of the categorical imperative is connected to utilitarianism and principles taught by Christ in the New Testament by delineating correct methods of making moral decisions. Kant’s arguments of acting in accord to our maxim…

“Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.” - Benito Mussolini. A dictatorship is the absolute control of a country in governance by one individual, formally known as a dictator. Absolute control of Italy, with the formation of a totalitarian state is a perfect example of dictatorial power. Benito Mussolini was appointed the 27th prime minister of italy in 1923, and by 1925, he named himself dictator, and implemented fascism into the new…

The forms of government in Ancient Thebes and Ancient Athens were antithetical, with Thebes having an absolute dictatorship and Athens having a pure, direct democracy. Nevertheless, both of these forms of government ultimately failed, as Sophocles demonstrates in his play, Antigone, and Thucydides demonstrates in his book, History of the Peloponnesian War. Together, these two works teach modern society that neither a pure democracy nor a pure dictatorship can be a successful political system due…

truths regarding math etc. that did not require sensory experience could be attained by reason alone; other knowledge however, which required experience of the world alongside reason was doubtful. This knowledge could not be regarded as absolute as it required experiences which could not be trusted to be accurate. He added to this assertion by arguing that although dreams appear as real as waking experiences, these dreams cannot provide persons with knowledge, they can only draw from conscious…

of the fifteenth century. His thoughts gave an explanation of the relationship between God and people together. Cusanus argues that God exceeds not only our mind and ability to be intellectual, but also our language. He challenges that God is the absolute maximum, and that the universe is created in the image of God. He also proposes how people are able to understand and think about God who is incomprehensible. He argues that even though we do not understand what God is, we are led to…

arise that there is possibly no better way to estimate poverty as “absolute purchasing power that is comparable across both time and space when relative prices vary over time and between countries” (ibid, p.5). This study measures absolute poverty as “the headcount index calculated for a poverty line of one PPP dollar per day from the World Bank (2010)” (Bergh & Nilsson, 2011, p. 5). Harrison believes that the headcount measure of absolute poverty gets to the nuances because it specified the…

However, some of these effects take very little time to take root. A prime example of this lies within both the factual and fictional interpretation of Julius Caesar in his rise and fall from power. The methods in which Caesar demonstrates the proverb: absolute power corrupts absolutely vary from his arrogance and ambition, to changes in his relationships and how he treated people. Before he truly came into power, Caesar had to rise from the ground up on his own. Through his use of alliances,…

includes the concept of mankind’s natural “desire of power” in his most prominent work, the Leviathan (Hobbes). Golding’s Lord of the Flies illustrates the destruction of civilization is caused by the fact that humans are innately malicious and crave absolute power through Hobbes’ views.…