Distinction

Traditionally, historians believe that the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars saw the advent of a new kind of warfare, different from earlier wars. While both conflicts contained aspects of earlier wars, like high casualty rates, new Enlightenment philosophies pushed the French into reorganizing their military, creating inflammatory rhetoric, and developing new, devastating military tactics. Examining the dichotomy between military and civilian life, the purpose of war, and how…

I agree with the doctrinal distinction of total depravity. This doctrinal belief comes from the Reformed tradition. Total depravity means that humans are completely wicked and morally corrupt. This means that human nature is fully dead. Without Christ, it is not possible to have true life because of the depravity of humans. I believe this is true because human nature is corruptible and mutable. Consequently, humans live in sin and are tempted by evil throughout the entire time on heaven. Satan…

To fully understand Kant’s main points of the third chapter, one must begin by understanding his broad ideology. Kant’s overall intent is to sharpen the reader’s appreciation of the amount of effort it takes to think. Kant uses the description of an island which is surrounded by stormy seas. Before the reader may leave this island, the overall image of landscape should be considered. Kant’s use of the island is metaphoric for empirical knowledge. Empirical knowledge is knowledge that is acquired…

That is why the unisex myth that calls for “an end to all distinctions based on sex” is so destructive for normal sexual identification. Our culture has developed these sex-role stereotypes because they are useful in childrearing and help reinforce adolescent and adult sexual identities. (pg310). Includes those arbitrary classifications of employment categories that hinder the individual’s freedom to develop talents and abilities. If your little children want to play a game of “hospital,” it…

writing, “If it is impossible to defend a general distinction between letting people die and acting to terminate their lives directly, then it would seem that active euthanasia also may be morally permissible” (213). However, he continues by affirming the validity of the A.M.A.’s clause claiming that, “We are hardly obliged to assume that Jones-like role Rachels assigns [represents] the defender of the traditional view” (213). Without a legitimate distinction between active and passive…

will further address later. The “extreme antagonism” that Schmitt uses to define the political is actually a state of war that is created once the state makes the Friend-Enemy distinction. He affirms that this distinction is the only thing that political actions and motives can be reduced to. Schmitt uses this distinction as the foundation of his concept of the political because it showcases what he considers to be the true nature of the state: the ability to exercise power without normative…

and this affection towards the object is understood as good or bad. When in the instance of good the object is said then to be agreeable or beautiful. The division of which is the topic of this paper, namely that Kant and Bullough outline their distinction of agreeable and beautify, as well as the agreement that when considering art; both agreeable and beauty are two different forms of appreciating art. Art when considered good is then, an influence upon the observer so as to induce some type of…

Daniel J. Boorstin claims there is a significant distinction between disagreement and dissent in a liberal society, arguing that disagreement is essential to the vitality of democracy, while dissent is effectively its cancer. I agree with Boorstin’s distinction as it applies in a historical context because disagreement promoted the rights of the people, while dissent seriously endangered them. However, I do not believe his distinction holds entirely true in contemporary America because the…

There have been other such incidents within the past year, including a young man with mentalillness pushing a young woman into the path of a subway train because of her attractive, butinexpensive, earrings; a man with mental illness who stabbed a young girl with a hypodermicneedle on a subway, producing the fear that the needle might be contaminated with a diseasesuch as HIV/AIDS; the "shoe store massacre" where a person with mental illness shot twelvepeople, killing all but one person, because…

I would like to dedicate my third follow-up post addressing the distinction between thinking/problem-solving and thinking/thinking-critically in a professional, academic, and/or personal circumstance. And the art of providing and receiving feedback. My original week nine post discussed the difference between rudimentary problem-solving of the limbic part of the brain (hippocampus, the amygdala, and the hypothalamus that both humans and animals utilize (“The Brain from Top to Bottom,” n.d.).…