Syllogism

The following question will look at the transmediated discourse of racist ideologies presented in the video game in question. This semester I have also been in a women’s studies class that looks at women’s agency in the Middle East, I even wrote a paper about female artist living in exile of Iran so I have become very sympathetic to the structure of women in the Middle East. In the class we discussed the messages of Islamic text and how they were very often misinterpreted to give men the larger…

Hellenic refers to the people who lived in classical Greece before Alexander the Great 's death. Hellenic Greeks were isolated and their civilization was termed classic because it was not heavily influenced by outside forces. Hellenistic refers to Greeks and others who lived during the period after Alexander 's conquests. They differ from Hellenic in territory, culture, and political systems. After the collapse of Mycenae around 1100 B.C. and Dorian invasions, the Greek Dark Ages ensued and the…

portray her view about political equality. She emphasizes that in its optimal form, “democracies empower each and all such that none can dominate any of the others, nor any one one group, another group of citizens” (Allen 34). Therefore, by the syllogism of this two coherent…

(I) In Kant’s Perpetual Peace, how does the thesis of the First Definitive Article of the Second Section establish the condition of peace? Which of the articles of the First Section provide a necessary grounding for that thesis? (TWO PAGES PLUS) The thesis of the First Definitive Article of the Second Section is “The civil constitution of every state is to be republican” (Kant 6). “Republicanism is the political principle of the separation of one executive from the legislative power”…

A.J. Ayer is an emotivist, which is a non-cognitivist meta-ethical position which classifies all ethical statements as meaningless displays of emotion. Meta-ethics, not to be confused with normative ethics, is meant to establish whether morality truly exists, and not which particular ethical statements are true. According to Ayer, there are no such things as genuine ethical judgements, rather, all ethical judgments are distinguished as pseudo-judgements (i.e. judgements that sound like they make…

The Evolution of Curriculum in Post-Secondary Education Throughout the 1700s, nine colleges (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, William and Mary, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Brown, and Columbia) were founded throughout the thirteen original colonies for religious purposes. While each of these colleges were either secular or had different religious denominations, all of these colleges had their curriculum modeled after that in the English college system. This curriculum included…

Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of reason as a way of knowing. Reason is one of the 5 ways of knowing. Reason is simple term is the ability that a human posses to make a logical thinking in order to answer a question with a specific and relevant answer. Although reason is frequently used to obtain information and to back up reasoning, it had as many weaknesses as strengths. It’s why reason as a way of knowing is not reliable as we could think. In this essay, I will to put in evidence the…

Many great philosophers came from Greece. They impacted the country of Greece, and many other parts of the world. People still learn from their great works, and teachings. They set foundations for many countries and many rulers through their ideas. They helped better the society and made life a bit easier. These men could have possibly been the most influential men of this time period. One of the greatest philosophers of all times was Socrates. Socrates was born 470 B.C., in Athens, Greece.…

Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the best interpreters of the Socratic tradition of philosophy because of how he used Socrates' meanings of philosophy in his Letter from Birmingham City Jail. King Jr. not only stated great key points of Socrates ideas throughout the letter but he also had many of the same beliefs as Socrates. However, one can argue that King Jr. mostly defended a racial problem throughout the letter and Socrates faced the facts about philosophy and what he believed to be just,…

The Civil Rights Movement spanned between 1954 and 1968 and encompassed social movements in the United States aiming to end racial segregation and discrimination against blacks. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the South, relying mainly on peaceful protests and boycotts. Although he was a dedicated activist, King also had a gift for rhetoric; his skillful use of language energized supporters of the civil rights…