Dialectic

Mao Tse-tung and Monique Wittig are two influential revolutionary figures whose ideas and works are largely influenced by the social revolution theory proposed by Karl Marx. Mao, just like Marx, pays particular attention to the conflicts of interests between classes and revolution movement as a manifestation of those contradictions. He adopts Marxist theory and adapts it to China, where instead of a proletariat revolution, he considers an agrarian revolution led by the peasant. Wittig recognizes…

Tomasello 's Account of Cultural Learning Tomasello founds accumulative cultural evolution account based on cultural learning. He identifies three forms of cultural learning in hierarchical order, based on the perspective that the learner would take through this process, being reflective, mental or intentional agent. He emphasizes on the reciprocal relation between human cognition and culture as a result of active participation of agent with its capability of perspective taking towards itself,…

Sociology is the scientific study of society, including patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture (Craig Calhoun (Editor). 2002, Dictionary of the Social Sciences). This discipline, which we were introduced to in High School, was presented to us as emanating from Western Europe. However, due to enhanced knowledge we have come to realized that sociological thoughts can be traced back to the continent of Africa. Noteworthy, to this discussion we can look at the…

The philosophy of karma and rebirth explains the most important dissimilarity between Western religious views and the great Indian religious perceptions. Western philosophy also makes use of a retributive description of evil in which a person’s suffering is recorded for by his earlier misconduct. But mentioned the properly wrong correlation between suffering and sin in a person’ lifetime, Western religions have supported other definitions of suffering. Though, Indian views merges this view with…

Introduction: Homelessness and poverty are two fundamental traits of the human life and almost everyone have either witnessed or experienced them. The homeless and the poor live among us; however, most people do not feel comfortable to acknowledge or recognize their plight. Ordinary citizens of all ages, politicians, and leaders in the faith community struggle to frame and compartmentalize emotions when they address the issue of homelessness and poverty. We all share discontent towards having…

In “Basic Writing as Cultural Conflict,” Tom Fox presents and then critiques various well-intentioned theories and frameworks that attempt to define basic writers and influence basic writing programs. He begins by repudiating deficit theories that center on perceived inadequacy as characteristic of the basic writer, the skills view that focuses on correcting student error, and service course ideology that simply views basic writing in a vacuum, separate and worthless to the institutions…

Rodrigo Guzman, a fourth grader, will never to go to Jefferson Elementary School again. While trying to come home from the Guzman’s family Christmas in Mexico, the family was stopped and sent back to Mexico. Their travel visas had expired. At the time of the writing, thee had been over double of the pior of minors trying to cross the border. Jeremy Adam Smith, the author of Our Fear of Immigrants, writes about why do American’s fear immigrants. The author goes into depth of how the way people…

expression, or any bridge back into ethical and political life,’ and thus, she ‘pines away in consumption and dies’ (Rose, 1993: 178). Concentrating on the image of the beautiful soul, Rose explains how this becomes Walter Benjamin’s concept of ‘dialectics at a standstill’ (Rose: 1993). For the beautiful soul ‘bears no fruit – her body disintegrates, her soul swells – and she returns in death…

Socratic irony has puzzled philosophical inquirers ever since the publication of Plato’s dialogues. Unlike the writings of Aristotle or Epicurus, the dramatic nature of Plato’s dialogues leaves some uncertainty as to whether Socrates truly means what he says. Even the most casual reader cannot help but smile while Socrates admires the knowledge of a seemingly unintelligent interlocutor. For the purposes of this essay, irony is defined as when a character says or acts knowingly in a way that is…

Introduction to the topic The assigned reading for forum 6 provided insight on organizational management and leadership from a theoretical basis. The chapter discusses various conflicts and the manager’s role in behavior modification. The contributors to behavioral based, need based, and job based motivational theories were discussed along with the equity theory. The chapter concluded with extensive discussion about the positive and negative attributes and appropriate use of teams along with…