Deliberation

diversity. I have learned how truly diverse deliberative democracy is. How everyone from children to adults can take part. Another essay the one over deliberation vs. debate could have been vastly improved. One of the ways would be by stressing how it plays a role in our American society. How we can not start to teach children the importance of deliberation if there are not proper role models for them to…

Company (or simply Pacific) to the Reliant Corporation (or simply Reliant). When representatives from the companies went to renegotiate the contract in 1984, a series of arduous deliberations started that would last for two years and culminated in an impasse for Pacific’s management. This paper reviews those deliberations before analyzing the negotiation styles of each company’s representatives and finally making a recommendation for Pacific Oil Company’s negotiators. Background Founded in…

Specifically, Delsol claims that “man is the imperfect being who imperfectly directs himself through perfection” and “what characterizes man is not any unity that is finally, perfected achieved, but the activity and effort undertaken in view of unity, the action by which he progresses toward communion without ever completely realizing it.” The importance communicated by Delsol here is that people seek unity through recognizing each other for differences, not becoming replicas of one another.…

message to the Christians of his period. Other Christian schools and sects followed different ideas of what the teachings of Christ meant. Athanasius’ list defining biblical canon did not appear suddenly. Rather, the list was the result of the deliberations of the Church that occurred over a couple hundred years. Various individuals and…

obesity policy outlook (Flores and Barclay 2016; Petridou 2014; Husmann 2015). The social construction framework does account for how policy is shaped by and shapes policy actors’ policy consensus. The elements of policy arguments, persuasion, and deliberation can be found in the culture community. As Deborah Stone (2002) in her work policy decision-making, argues that human beings are not holistically rational actors, but policy decisions lie between rational facts and democratic…

their role. From the quote, Aristotle is describing the first man as a man who is a slave because he does not belong to himself and is defined as a slave by nature. Since this person is incapable of logic and reasoning, he cannot participate in a deliberation. Therefore, he is no use as an active…

“Man is by nature a political animal” is perhaps the most quoted phrase from Aristotle’s Politics despite the observation that the context in which this claim was made has not always been properly understood. Recently, however, frustrations with the lack of political participation in modern liberal democracies have contributed to renewed interest in some of Aristotle’s ideas—namely, democratic theory. Throughout chapters 9 to 13 of Book 3 of Politics, Aristotle provides an empirical assessment…

One set of alternative ethical theories that I came across during my research are the theories of W.D. Ross. William David Ross (1877-1971) is best known for his contributions to moral philosophy and the study of classical literature (Simpson 2015). With regards to ethics, his greatest accomplishment was forming a new ethical theory. Ross’s view of morality is pluralistic, in that there is not just one source of morality but many. Promoting happiness and avoiding unhappiness is one source of…

“12 Angry Men” focuses on a jury’s deliberations about a capital murder case regarding the murder of a father supposedly committed by his young son. The case is believed to be an open and shut case. There is, however a dilemma as to convict or acquit the young boy all 12 men must reach a unanimous decision. When the first vote is taken 11 men believe the boy is guilty and one does not. This one man, an architect, refuses to automatically render a guilty verdict. This one man, Juror #8, tells the…

Aristotle Ethics Paper Through Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle analyzes different values present in Greek society and how to seek goodness. Specifically, Aristotle advocated for specific virtues in order for individuals to attain complete happiness, eudemonia, by pursuing virtues like wisdom and courage. While pursuing virtues of thought and character, habituation and practical wisdom are important to acquire virtues to better society. Aristotle makes a stark difference between virtues and…