The Panopticon: And the Way it Relates to Modern Society Dear‚ Mr. Foucault After reading your ideas on panopticism‚ I found myself both agreeing with your ideas and on the other hand having a few questions of my own. Does power have to be invisible‚ in order for it to be truly effective? Can a panopticon have the same powerful effect over school kid‚ mental patients‚ and hospital occupants as it does with prisoners? Nevertheless‚ these questions will be looked at more closely later on more
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The trend of marriage in the modern society The meaning of marriage differs from one person to another‚ and from one time to another. In ancient times‚ for example‚ a marriage meant a condition in which the legal union of a man and a woman as husband and wife. For much of human history‚ marriage had been a permanent institution that‚ once entered into‚ cannot be dissolved except by the death of one of the spouses. In the modern world‚ however‚ marriage is a vastly different thing. On the up side
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Plato’s interpretation of justice as seen in The Republic’ is a vastly different one when compared to what we and even the philosophers of his own time are accustomed to. Plato would say justice is the act of carrying out one’s duties as he is fitted with. Moreover‚ if one’s duties require one to lie or commit something else that is not traditionally viewed along with justice; that too is considered just by Plato’s accounts in The Republic.’ I believe Plato’s account of justice‚ and his likely
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The philosophical ideas of Plato that relate to the Parthenon include whether the structure is an element of the Visible World or the Intelligible World. In my opinion‚ Plato would view the Parthenon as an object in the Visible World. The Parthenon is a one of a kind monument that is tangible and exists in our real world. The Parthenon is an architectural project and deals with forms of science and mathematics. Plato’s view of science and mathematics are categorized as forms in the Intelligible
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Religious discrimination There is a serious issue under debate that threatens the freedom of every individual to dress the way that they want‚ the freedom of expression and the right to practise their religion. We are currently living in a society where basic human rights are violated‚ and bigots are allowed to dictate what women are allowed to wear and how they should follow their religion. Laws and policies have been passed in countries such as France‚ banning people from practising their
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innovations in technology have led to changing the way of teaching in recent times. This brings us to the question of whether the role of teacher will be as important as it did in the past. In this essay the arguments surrounding teachers’ role in the modern world will be examined. At first place‚ there are some people out there who champion no matter how technology of communication via computers is advanced‚ the teachers’ position will remain steady all the time. They argue that‚ for instance‚ students
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PLATO ON TRADITION AND BELIEF. 1.Socrates gets Laches to agree to a new definition of courage by arguing that not all cases of courage are a sort of endurance.He asks Laches if he would consider courage to be noble to which Laches replies he would.Socrates then asks him would he consider foolish endurance to be seen as hurtful‚to which Laches also agrees.With this in mind Laches agrees to a new definition of courage to include only wise endurance. 2/5 2.They conclude that knowledge
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of any country has impacts on the politics and society of that country. Nevertheless‚ the impacts that it has on the country can be positive and negative as it depends on say whether that country has a democratic regime or an authoritarian regime and this piece of academic writing will demonstrate how. For example in a democratic regime‚ a constitution will most likely state how power is to be dispersed which will have a different impact on the politics and society in comparison to an authoritarian
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The computer is the invention of the 20th century. These mechanical brains are everywhere around us and play a big part in our life. The impact they created and still create on society is limitless. To talk about only a few‚ the exchange of information‚ the medicine as well as the education have been profoundly change by this invention. Firstly‚ it is logical to say that with billions of pages available to any user‚ Internet far surpasses all informational databases or libraries in the world. From books
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On hearing the word politics‚ what usually springs to mind are images of government‚ politicians and their policies or more negatively the idea of corruption and dirty tricks. The actual definition seems to have been obscured and almost lost by such representations and clichés that tend not to pinpoint the true essence‚ which defines this thing‚ called politics. In order to make an attempt at a definition of politics a systematic approach is required. To begin with‚ a brief historical
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