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    Greek word study dialégomai‚ dialogizomai‚ dialogismos : Conscience Summary I. dialégomai In classical and Hellenistic Greek culture The Greek words dialégomai was usually used for “converse” or “discussion.” In the time of the great philosophers like Socrates‚ Plato and Aristotle‚ the art of persuasion and demonstration was developed as well as the establishment of the idea and the investigation of demonstration. In fact‚ dialégomai is the only way to reach the idea in Greek philosophy‚ so it

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    Whether or not conscience is the best guide to making moral decisions on sexual ethics depends on one key thing‚ what conscience is. There are many different views of this‚ with many different philosophers taking a point of view on the definition. Freud‚ an 19th Century Austrian Neurologist said that conscience is the conflict between our ‘ego’ and our ‘super-ego’‚ which depends on our upbringing and societies rules as to how it imposes of what we do‚ known to us‚ as guilt‚ where obeying our super-ego

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    Moral Majority leaders relied on mail donations as a funding source. They prospered whilst utilizing this system for multiple years‚ and “In 1984‚ Moral Majority raised $11.1 million dollars thorough the mail”(Albright‚ 2). Well-organized campaigns contributed to the generous amount of donations the organization received. Advertisers tailored monthly reports discussing news updates to millions of supporters‚ urging recipients to make small donations‚ which quickly added up. The Moral Majority Movement

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    Journal of Social Issues‚ Vol. 57‚ No. 4‚ 2001‚ pp. 657–674 Description and Prescription: How Gender Stereotypes Prevent Women’s Ascent Up the Organizational Ladder Madeline E. Heilman* New York University This review article posits that the scarcity of women at the upper levels of organizations is a consequence of gender bias in evaluations. It is proposed that gender stereotypes and the expectations they produce about both what women are like (descriptive) and how they should behave (prescriptive)

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    Conscience and Consciousness in Hamlet and Oedipus When analyzing and interpreting the classic plays “The Tragedy of Hamlet” and “Oedipus the King” by Shakespeare and Sophocles‚ respectively‚ it is worthwhile to ask whether these masterpieces should be read as dramas of moral conscience‚ or dramas of consciousness itself. While the answer is surely ‘both’‚ this report argues that the more fruitful and edifying line of interpretation is the latter‚ and that Hamlet and Oedipus are primarily dramas

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    Peter Wood’s Black Majority is a social history examining the cause and effects‚ both explicit and implicit‚ of the black majority that emerged in colonial South Carolina. His study spans the time period from the settlement of Carolina through the Stono Rebellion‚ which took place in 1739. He also takes into consideration and examines certain events that took place in the years immediately preceding the settlement of 1670‚ as well as those that immediately followed‚ as a direct result of‚ the Stono

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    LL.B. VI Term - Negotiable Instruments‚ Banking and Insurance. The statutory provisions would be supplemented with judicial pronouncements. Prescribed Legislations: (a) The Indian Contract Act‚ 1872 (b) The Specific Relief Act‚ 1963 (c) The Indian Majority Act‚ 1875 Prescribed Books: (a) Nilima Bhadbhade‚ Pollock & Mulla‚ Indian Contract & Specific Relief Acts (13th ed.‚ 2006) (b) J. Beatson‚ Anson’s Law of Contract (28th ed.‚ 2002) (c) H.K. Saharay‚ Dutt on Contract – The Indian Contract Act‚ 1872

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    that are required in order to achieve individual freedom. This freedom is in charge of establishing the limit to the power of rulers. However‚ this limitation of power cannot be applied in democracies‚ as he calls it “Tyranny of the majority” ‚ because the will of people is the will of the most numerous. Moreover‚ one supposes that his own preferences

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    as one of IMDB’s perpetual top-10 films of all time (No. 6 as I write this)—an old-school‚ single-set talkathon perched incongruously among adolescent fantasies. Like Schindler’s List (No. 7)‚ it speaks powerfully to our belief that one individual with a conscience can make a real difference in the world‚ and that’s a genuinely uplifting message that people do right to embrace. Only a stone-hearted soul could fail to be moved watching Henry Fonda slowly‚ methodically sway 11 other jurors‚ one by one

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    crisis of conscience‚ but in reality‚ if one follows what he or she believes‚ then that person will have less of a struggle with his or her conscience. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain‚ Huck‚ a young adventurer‚ is struggling while trying to choose between his opinions and the opinions of the society. After Huck flees from his home‚ he finds Jim‚ a runaway slave‚ creating a difficult predicament for Huck. He helps Jim run away throughout the novel‚ but battles his conscience as a result

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