2651683 The Function of Ideology‚ According to Marx In developing a novel conception of history in The German Ideology‚ Karl Marx proceeds “from earth to heaven” (The Marx-Engels Reader‚ p. 154). That is‚ he begins with a focus on the everyday life of human beings and from these observations exposes the function of the prevailing social mores and ideologies of the day. He posits that the dominant ideology of any time period is in fact designed with the sole purpose of representing and protecting
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Gospel Parables According to Luke Luke’s unique parables of the Good Samaritan‚ the Prodigal Son‚ and Lazarus and the Rich Man contributed to a major change in attitudes toward people who were poor‚ powerless and socially outcast. Empowered by the Holy Spirit Luke’s Jesus forgives sinners‚ comforts the oppressed and heals the afflicted. Luke demonstrates that Jesus’ kingdom demands an ethic change when it comes to social and religious values. The Good Samaritan parable is an excellent example of
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Do the gods love the something because it is pious‚ or is it only pious because the gods love it? Socrates introduced this question and it has since been heavily debated throughout history with the sides split fairly evenly. This inquiry that has been posed leads people to start actually thinking about their values brought to them their entire life. Although they are following the rules that are laid out by either a holy figure‚ a mentor‚ or a political leader the moral thing to do? Can one be
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Socrates is a man who relies on his manipulative tricks of rhetoric and cunning wisdom to dismantle and disprove his opponents of conversation. “What is the pious‚ and what the impious‚ do you say?” (6) Socrates asks one of these opponents‚ a man named Euthyphro‚ who is at court to prosecute his own father - an action which Euthyphro thinks to be pious. Socrates asks Euthyphro to define piety‚ and as he does so‚ Socrates uses their conversation to mock and twist Euthyphro’s words so they contradict
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Spare a student or two who may have transferred in or out of the district over the years‚ my (rather small) graduating class remained relatively unchanged from elementary school through our senior year. This undoubtedly had both benefits and drawbacks; the one undeniable fact though was that we witnessed each other growing up—through the good as well as the bad. It’s with this experience in mind that I recall one student whose behaviors I now know would be referred to as excessively ‘antisocial’—what
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What is philosophy according to Socrates? Philosophy is an academic subject that exercises reason and logic in an attempt to understand reality and answer fundamental questions about knowledge‚ life‚ morality‚ virtue‚ and human nature. The original word for philosophy comes from the ancient Greek word philosopha‚ which means love of wisdom. Although Socrates himself never claimed to have any answers to the questions he raised‚ his views and methods of philosophy became the foundations of what
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What is a community ? A community is a group of people who you can depend on and also a community can be described as a group of friend or your neighborhood friends that you can call family. How does a Community help ? A community can really help a lot because if you are lonely you can depend of your community family to come around and bring you excitement or even if you are that person who just stay in the house all day your community family can be the ones that you can go to the mall and hang
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According to the textbook‚ what were some of the characteristic phases of development of pre-historical humanity? Every premature thing goes through different phases of development‚ as far as humans are concerned‚ they have inherited earth more than four thousand years ago and have undergone various phases of development. Homo Sapiens which clearly resemble us‚ can be known as our ancestors disintegrated from Africa and allocated different parts of the earth and this time can be recalled as stone
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Alexander and His Campaigns: How He Changed The Alexander portrayed by Arrian in his The Campaigns of Alexander‚ is an interesting and complex Alexander‚ a character that slowly grows‚ matures and evolves throughout his adventures in new lands. Arrian is able to give an in depth description of the battles Alexander took part in as well as the lands he traveled to‚ while at the same time describing Alexander’s character. He is able to describe how Alexander goes from an over-confident youth‚ with
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Dudley Erskine Devlin was born in Syracuse‚ New York and he teaches English at Colorado and writes articles regarding important issues that concerns the community‚ his essay ‘’Children and Violence in America’’ talks about the rising violence among children and points out that children are more and more often "both the victims and perpetrators" of violence. Devlin begins his article with various examples of kids shooting each other and killing themselves in acts of desperation. Then he questions
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