Peter Zumthor‚ a Basel born Swiss‚ is an internationally accredited and decorated architect. He is one of the most revered architects of the 21st century. Zumthor is best known for his materiality and attention to space. His style is said to epitomize the principles of phenomenology. Buildings should be experienced‚ a specific mood and feeling should felt by the person interacting with the space. In 2006 Peter Zumthor was commissioned for the Steilneset Memorial monument by the town of Vardo‚ Finnmark
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Immanuel Kant and Aristotle agree that all rational beings desire happiness and that all rational beings at least should desire moral righteousness. However‚ their treatments of the relationship between the two are starkly opposed. While Aristotle argues that happiness and morality are nearly synonymous (in the respect that virtue necessarily leads to happiness)‚ Kant claims that not only does happiness have no place in the realm of morality‚ but that a moral action usually must contradict the actor’s
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Public use of reason has become a cornerstone of German thought with philosophers such as Immanuel Kant‚ arguing that reason is a public matter that should be done for the betterment of society‚ but others such as Moses Mendelssohn believe the key to achieving an individual’s felicity is through their own private use of reason. Both agree reason is absolutely necessary in the pursuit of enlightenment‚ but each hold reason in their own unique regards as to how it should be used to achieve enlightenment
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song Fast Car by Tracy Chapman. The protagonists of all texts are beset with cultural and familial limitations‚ acting as negative forces that hinder their ability to belong. As seen in Feliks Skrzynecki‚ the generational gap is the ultimate reason Peter Skrzynecki’s cultural belonging is not established to the same extent as his father’s. The poem communicates the idea that experience and memory are two fundamental aspects that allows one to connect to place‚ a quality embodied by Feliks who served
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PETER OLAFSON BACKGROUND Peter Olafson has just taken a position as the general manager for Cable King Television (CKV) of St. Paul Minnesota. CKV has been in existence for the past four years. The company is by UniComm of Beverly Hills California and a local St. Paul businessman‚ 85%-15% respectively. The first three years of CTV were spent securing state‚ federal‚ and local franchises and permission to operate in the St. Paul area. When Olafson arrived‚ CTV had six employees working on
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Peter Abelard was a distinguished philosopher of the medieval era‚ he flourished around the twelfth century (1079-1142) and he was also known for his logic. He was the founder of nominalism‚ a theologian‚ an ethicist and a poet as well; known for his brilliance‚ innovative and controversial ideas which attracted many prominent scholars to Paris in order to learn from him. During his early life‚ he fell in love with the niece of an official of Notre Dame Cathedral‚ and got her pregnant
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developed feelings of separation and unhappiness. In spite of the fact that the father lived under the extreme circumstances of World War 2‚ he is portrayed as a man who can still manage to relish the simple pleasures of life in stark comparison to Peter Skrzynecki. Skrzynecki’s ironic simile “…like a dumb prophet” further accentuates his lack of knowledge upon his Polish background and reveals the poet’s sense of ambiguity about his own cultural identity. The allusive and symbolic reference of the
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There is another anthropological position which I want to define as an "extreme" one. This position is expressed in the works of Kant and Rawls. In their conceptions the political sphere cannot be separated from any moral standpoints and the question of justice. Nonetheless‚ their positions presuppose anthropology that is way more "positive" than the one of Machiavelli and Schmitt. For them‚ humans are necessarily rational and reasonable beings‚ and these human characteristics are primary in their
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1. What are Browning’s are the dilemmas at White Cap? Explain Peter Browning’s job is to revitalize a mature business in the face of serious competitive threats‚ but without discouraging the loyalty and morale of a family style culture. Market share of plastic bottles was growing fast and White Cap is losing customers due to that‚ so a change is necessary. However‚ few managers or employees at White Cap acknowledged the need for change and were resistant to change. Employees have been accustomed
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Wavey Krockett Ethics Midterm Paper Everyday Duties in the eyes of Immanuel Kant Abstract : . Kant’s ideas or his take on ethics was based upon autonomy (self-governance)‚ and reason. He believed that unless a person freely and willingly makes a choice‚ then their action has no meaning much less any moral value. Kant also thought that every man when using reason when analyzing moral dilemmas would in fact agree with what he called the Categorical Imperative
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