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    Is there a difference between being learned and being wise? Please explain. Learned is define “having or showing a lot of learning‚ education‚ or knowledge “(Learned‚ n.d.). Wise is “having or showing wisdom or knowledge usually from learning or experiencing “(Wise‚ n.d.). A person that is wise may learn from everyday life experience. In the week video‚ Dr. Lou Cozolino supports “wisdom has to be learned through and a real-world application applied to very complex situations within a social milieu

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    Drawing from the four criteria suggested by Dean Flemming in Livermore’s chapter 10‚ answer the following questions: How do we embrace “category width” without falling into moral relativism? “The degree to which we’re even comfortable thinking about that notion is directly connected to our category width.” (182). Broad categorizers tend to lean toward cultural width and I can understand that better now. I believe that people can have morals and biblical values and still have a right‚ different‚

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    The Age of Absolutism and the Enlightenment encouraged individuals to analyze their society. Enlightened thinkers started to deeply think about the structure of society and challenged traditional ideas of the power. Curious enlightened thinkers came up with their theory of how the government should function. Baron de Montesquieu was one of the most influential representative of the Enlightenment in France who promoted his idea of protecting liberty and unity in the government and society. Montesquieu

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    In the eighteenth century‚ much of Europe was engulfed in intellectual and cultural movement known as the Enlightenment. Reformers‚ which included: writers‚ political reformers and philosophers‚ led the fight against dogma‚ and old tradition. Up to this point time‚ questioning authority was uncommon‚ people were not willing to risk being tortured or put into jail. Many of the philosophers that express Enlightenment ideas of: freethinking‚ reason‚ tolerance‚ education‚ risked themselves being killed

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    approach the studies of cultures using Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism. The definition of these terms is very different in many ways when describing cultures. Cultural Relativism is defined as the perspective that any aspect of a culture must be viewed and evaluated within the context of that culture. While‚ ethnocentrism‚ is defined as making value judgments based on one’s own culture when describing aspects of another culture. Cultural relativism is much more commonly used by anthropologist

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    Individual vs. Cultural relativism Some people may argue that‚ “what’s right/moral in my eyes‚ may not be right/moral in your eyes”. This is considered individual moral relativism. Cultural moral relativism is putting culture at the top of relative ethical decision-making. (Argosy University‚ 2014). These two different moral relativisms differ in the fact that one is putting what you believe first and the other is putting your culture first. I believe that individual moral relativism has some strengths

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    being grouped together as the Western religions. Perhaps Islam doesn’t fit into this statement so well but for Christianity and Judaism people tend to think that these religions are very similar. Furthermore‚ many people know that there are differences between the

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    The difference between Management and Governance: Analysis in the context of Small and Medium Enterprises –SMEs.   By Callixte NYILINDEKWE   I. Introduction: Traditionally‚ corporate governance has evolved around the contract theory and agency problem based on separation of ownership and management (Dube‚ 2011). The benefits of this separation derive from the monitoring by the board of the CEO activity in the interest of shareholders‚ and generally in the interest of all stakeholders

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    Since long‚ the deep-rooted difference reigning between leadership and management has fuelled a raging debate. According to Bennis‚ “There is a profound difference between management and leadership‚ and both are important. To manage means to bring about‚ to accomplish‚ to have charge of or responsibility for‚ to conduct. Leadership is influencing‚ guiding in a direction‚ course‚ action‚ opinion. The distinction is crucial.” In fact‚ leadership and management are both vital and complementary.

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    Moral relativism did not become a prominent topic in philosophy or elsewhere until the 20th century. Moral relativism is the making of an excuse for the action done. Behaviors should not be dismissed under certain circumstances. Moral relativism is dangerous and illogical which can be seen through murders‚ abortion‚ and lying. The justification of murdering is one major act in moral relativism in that it is illogical. An example is in a murder case somebody says they killed the person because they

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