Summary Thales of Miletus He was the first philosopher of Ancient Greece and the founder of Western philosophy. Thales came from the seaport of Miletus. He was born around 620 BC who claimed that water is the fundamental nature of the world. He correctly predicted that there would be a solar eclise in 585 BC which was credited by Herodotus. He was also known as the first natural scientist and analytical philosopher in Western intellectual history. Aside from being a philosopher‚ Thales was also
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A project on Life and works of John Stuart Mill Project submitted to DR. D. Anand (Faculty: political science) Project submitted by NIKITA AGRAWAL Roll No. 80 Semester two HIDAYATULLAH NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY RAIPUR‚ C.G TABLE OF CONTENTS * ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 03 * OBJECTIVES 04 * RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
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Ethics‚ or Moral Philosophy‚ is the branch of Philosophy dealing with the questions of what is good and bad‚ what is right and wrong‚ trying to assess what moral duty is. Examples of Ethical Questions: What is a morally good outcome? What is a morally right action? Are moral values universal or relative? Where do moral values come from? What is a just political system? Are you responsible for poverty? Do we have a right to a good death? Would you invade a country that is practicing ethnic
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INTRODUCTION Zahira’s case is the landmark judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India on law relating to the Contempt of Court. The case is commonly referred as the Best Bakery Case. The incident involved the burning down of the Best Bakery‚ a small outlet in the Hanuman Tekri area of Vadodara as a part of communal riots on March 1‚ 2002. Twelve Muslims and two others were burnt alive in the premises of the bakery‚ "allegedly by a Hindu mob". Zahira H. Sheikh‚ a 19-year-old during the incident
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Epicurus (341—271 BCE) Epicurus is one of the major philosophers in the Hellenistic period‚ the three centuries following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE (and of Aristotle in 322 BCE). Epicurus developed an unsparingly materialistic metaphysics‚ empiricist epistemology‚ and hedonistic ethics. Epicurus taught that the basic constituents of the world are atoms‚ uncut table bits of matter‚ flying through empty space‚ and he tried to explain all natural phenomena in atomic terms. Epicurus
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distinct academic discipline (Strauss‚ 1978‚ pg. 21). There is a rich biographical tradition on Aristotle in ancient sources‚ of which Düring (1957) provides a useful scholarly inventory. One of the most extensive extant ancient accounts is provided by Diogenes Laertius (‘DL’) in the fifth book of his Lives of the Eminent Philosophers‚ written sometime in the 2nd century AD. In the introduction to his translation of Aristotle’s Politics‚ Lord (1984) also provides a speculative biography‚ extrapolated from
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Das Parfum Die Geschichte eines Mörders  Von Theresa Obermoser Biographie Autor: Patrick Süskind Patrick Süskind wurde am 26. März in Ambach am Starnberger See geboren. Er ist als Dramatiker‚ Prosaschreiber‚ Hörspiel- und Drehbuchautor gleichermaßen bekannt. Sein Vater hieß Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind und war Schriftsteller. Nach Abschluß des Abiturs und des Zivildienstes studierte P. Süskind von 1968 bis 1974 in München wie sein Vater Geschichte. Dieses Studium schloss er mit einem
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From Chingis Khan to Ottoman:A Brief Introduction Notes prepared by Prof. Erdal Yavuz. For the definitions ‚ images‚ original texts as well as content‚ the following internet sources are primarily used: http://en.wikipedia.org/‚ http://www.m-w.com/ ‚http://www.questia.com/library/encyclopedia/‚ http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/WORLD.HTM ‚ http://www.allempires.com/ ‚http://www.bartleby.com/67/ ‚ http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ Turks and Mongols: AD 1000-1500 The first half of our own millennium was
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May 29th 2012 Research Paper This research paper investigates the interactions between Italian people and Chinese immigrants in everyday life and focuses on problems and complications that characterize this difficult “cohabitation”. It explores the general situation and conditions that Chinese immigrants have in Italy and the perception that the Italian country and its citizens have towards them. This open-viewed analysis focuses on the Chinese way of living in Italy and how this influences the
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What Is an Author? Michel Foucault‚ 1969 The coming into being of the notion of "author" constitutes the privileged moment of individualization in the history of ideas‚ knowledge‚ literature‚ philosophy‚ and the sciences. Even today‚ when we reconstruct the history of a concept‚ literary genre‚ or school of philosophy‚ such categories seem relatively weak‚ secondary‚ and super imposed scansions in comparison with the solid and fundamental unit of the author and the work. I shall not offer here a
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