Idealism

the Hellenistic culture sprouts from his conquering of the Persian empire, and mixing the many cultures that were already present with Hellenic culture and ideas. This mixture of ideas moved the Hellenic’s three primary lenses of thought: humanism, idealism, and rationalism to a Hellenistic concept of three similar lenses: individualism, realism, and empiricism. This paradigm shift changed the way that the world functioned in all three of the given lenses of thought, and the reign of Alexander…

use their distinctive voices to explore their ideas about humanity, revealing the unvarnished truths of idealism and change. In Lawler’s play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, considered ground-breaking for its distinctive use of Australian colloquial language and idiom, along with its unique depiction of Australian working class characters and experiences, highlights the dangers of excessive idealism and the failure to accept change and the rigors of time. While Omar Musa’s “Capital Letters” at…

sculpted by our experiences, and these definitions for some are becoming destructive as they revolve around idealistic properties. As idealism…

terms of translating morality and ethics to international politics there are three ethical traditions: realism, cosmopolitanism (idealism), and communitarianism (principled realism). Out of these ethical traditions spring coordinating strategies of ethical decision making: consequentialism, deontology, and tridimensional ethics.…

United States to not pay the tolls for the canal, and the Jones Act in 1916 gave full territorial status to the Philippines, who could then gain independence when a stable government was established. This huge step towards international equality and idealism reflects Wilson’s view of “democracy… the rights and liberties of small nations… peace…

Judgment” by Liz C. Wang and Lisa Calvano is the product of a study conducted on undergraduate students using previous studies and theories on ethics. The article focuses on the following key points: business ethics education, gender, moral judgment, idealism and relativism, business and personal scenarios while “extending research on the rela-tionship between gender and ethicality among business students by considering the effect of gender on moral judgment, while factoring in the impact of…

Throughout The Prince, Machiavelli represents what a person should be. The arguments Machiavelli possesses throughout the book can be questioned, but the intent is still there. Machiavelli does not specifically state whether Christian ethics should be followed but rather what one person should possess to survive. Personally, I agree with Machiavelli’s theory. One should be entitled to whatever religion or morals they would like to follow. Machiavelli mentions that the need for prudence and…

international affairs can be evaluated and found to have similar roots and traditions. Hobbes theory of realism can closely relate to the idea of moral skepticism because of their emphasis on security of the individual. In addition, Locke’s theory of idealism can relate to the idea of communitarianism because of their link in moral ethics rising among nations. Lastly, Rousseau’s perspective of rationalism is supported by the idea of cosmopolitanism, relating by the unity of states through…

transcendental idealism was charged with being a revision of Berkeleyan idealism, a doctrine which proclaims that there are no external material bodies, and all that exists in the world are minds and ideas. Before the first and the second editions of the Critique, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics was released, in which Kant both clarifies points made in the Critique and responds this accusation (Heide 26 Nov). This paper will first explicate his account of transcendental idealism as found…

involved with foreign places. With the closing of the frontier, America had started to search for a type of ‘new frontier’ that they could conquer. The factor most important in driving American foreign policy in this time was self-interest. While idealism played a role when America felt the need to help foreign countries, it was ultimately self-interest that led America to take actions in foreign policy. Self- interest is shown when Senator Albert J. Beveridge claims in a speech that…