Apathy

Metaphysics and Epistemology The history of philosophy begins with the Pre-Socratic period. The period is named because it was the period before the philosopher Socrates was born. The philosophers that lived during the Pre-Socratic period came up with the idea of metaphysics. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of reality. Socrates was born in 471 BC and brought an end to the Pre-Socratic period and brought the beginning to many new branches of philosophy such as…

responsibility rather than accepting it. However, if the general public abandoned the “business as usual” view of state-corporate relations, there would be increased societal pressure for corporations to act in an ethically responsible manner. Much of the apathy among the general public would turn into political fervor if the immoral activities of corporations were made transparent and denounced publicly (Eabrasu 2012,…

Fraser puts it in The Age of Acquiescence, “Industrial capitalism did not invent cruelty and exploitation. But its advent set in motion wholesale social transfigurations never seen before.” (p. 46) So, if simplified, this lack of responsibility, or apathy, towards helping others and abundance of greed is what gives capitalism its evil image. It creates a society in which work determines human value, not the mere fact of being human as a sense of human value. From this stems classism, racism, and…

rallying the public to go against the Jews was the boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933, however it failed and Kaplan writes, “The boycott generally lacked public enthusiasm. It was uneven, with little support displayed in Berlin but excesses… but apathy, even resistance, was widespread.” It was not until 1938 with the November pogrom that the Nazi’s had a concerted effort against the Jewish…

CNO Jones’ form of management is similar to that of Theory X. Established by McGregor in 1960, theory X is an authoritarian leadership style that focuses on top down management. Kopelman, Prottas, and Davis (2008) note employees under theory X management are considered “lazy, are incapable of self-direction and autonomous work behavior, and have little to offer in terms of organizational problem solving” (p. 255). Prompting managers to micro-manage and make all decisions independently, no…

from Thursday.”’ Cimorene did not get a chance to tell her mother why she did not want to marry this man. She deserves to pick and choose who she marries in her own life. Cimorene’s parents made her do lessons on embroidery and dancing which she had apathy in.“The King and Queen did the best they could...dancing, embroidery...Cimorene found it all very dull...” Even though they tried to do the best they could, they had never asked Cimorene her opinions on the topics. They did not let her have…

already undercut the wages of native workers, and migrants both legal and illegal often cower in poverty and a lack of health insurance, leaving roughly 32 percent of migrants without at a median salary of $22,500 for illegal workers (“FAIR Study”). The apathy to such a presence affects residents hailing from both sides of the border, as stated by FAIR’s Dan Stein, “The United States maintains an immigration policy that admits millions of people who are unlikely to succeed,” (“FAIR Study”) thus…

1.2 Statement of the Problem In the history of teaching English as a foreign language, there have been a great deal of studies investigating motivational factors for learners and teachers. (Hiromori, 2009; Manolopoulou and Sergi, 2004; Amrai, Elahi, Azizi Zalani, and Parhon, 2011). These factors can be grouped into three types as followings: a) integrative / instrumental, b) extrinsic / intrinsic, and c) global / situational, and task". According to the teachers, six factors are identified as…

voters are left in an awkward limbo support the party lines and vote Trump or continue in opposing Trump and making a Clinton and Democratic victory more likely. American voters are trapped in a two-party system not out of choice or even political apathy or laziness, but how the system is set…

Han China’s attitude toward technology was more favourable than the Romans; they had a rather organized and class-divided society, making the populous’ general attitude toward technology to be lower. This can be proven through the constant concern on the part of the Han dynasty over the less than stellar opinion on the part of the Romans. As a foreword, every document provided was written by a higher class citizen or government official, giving no insight into how the common people, lower…