Glaucon is making about human nature and why we act justly with the Shepard and ring story. Glaucon argues that all persons are egoistic and selfish. He states that the only reason people do not always do the unjust thing is because of the fear of being caught and harmed. If we look at what people really are‚ then we will see that they believe to do wrong is desirable and to suffer wrong is undesirable. Since we do not want to suffer wrong‚ we compromise with others and form a compact kind
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the one answer with confidence. The basis of this concept is so simple‚ but it is pretty interesting to me. In the article it describes this concept in a very basic way by saying‚ “Suppose we have four pigeons but only three pigeonholes. No matter how we assign a hole to each pigeon‚ at least two pigeons will have to share the same hole.” This alone seem like it would be
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Why should we have good manners? Good manners are important to live happily among people. Without good manners we are only slightly better than animals. The modern society consists of more people than it did in the past. These people are of various cultural‚ racial‚ religious and professional backgrounds. It therefore requires great powers of endurance and abilities of mixing with people. Good manners enable one to tolerate the disagreeable attitudes of others to a great extent. They also help
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High School students either feel upset‚ mad or violated not being able to wear what they want to school. Students should have the right to wear what they please to school. At many schools‚ the dress code is unfair. It’s mostly only directed to females when it should be directed to males as much as it is to us girls. We should go to school to learn‚ not to be told we can’t wear what we want. This is causing students to get more and more angry about not being able to wear what they want. The
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CHAPTER 31 OCEAN CURRENTS TYPES AND CAUSES OF CURRENTS 3100. Definitions The movement of ocean water is one of the two principal sources of discrepancy between dead reckoned and actual positions of vessels. Water in motion is called a current; the direction toward which it moves is called set‚ and its speed is called drift. Modern shipping speeds have lessened the impact of currents on a typical voyage‚ and since electronic navigation allows continuous adjustment of course‚ there is less need to
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Plato‚ Descartes‚ and The Matrix Kyra Eigenberger Liberty University Deception is the foundational issue prevalent in The Matrix‚ Plato’s allegory of the cave‚ and Rene Descartes meditations. In each of these excerpts the goal of answering the question of what is real and how to uncover the truth is essential. Another question that arises throughout all three excerpts is whether or not the individuals will be able to handle the truth when it is finally learnt. In The Matrix Morpheus reveals
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The Leeuwin Current is a tropical current‚ consisting of warm‚ low salinity water that affects Western Australia’s coastal waters and wildlife. Currents are part of a large sub circular current system called a gyre. The currents in the Southern hemisphere gyres circulate in an anti-clockwise direction (Skinner‚ Porter & Botkin‚ 1999‚ p.249). There is a current in each of the major oceans that generally flow northwards along the western coast of continents. However‚ the Leeuwin Current flows southwards
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learning at school. If the reason we go to school is to learn‚ then why let school uniforms distract us from it? Children should be able to choose what they wear for school without the government’s influence and make it as comfortable as they feel like. By the child not being able to dress themselves for school‚ it may delay their transition into adulthood. Ninety percent of seventh and eighth graders disliked uniforms (procon.org). Why force
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During the 1990s‚ the stories of the rape camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina shook the world and forced the international community to intervene. Now‚ evidence is coming to light that a similarly gruesome situation was taking place during Libya’s Arab Spring uprising. When the Libyan unrest began‚ then-dictator Muammar Gaddafi gave orders to crush the peaceful protesters by any means‚ ordering his soldiers to go from house to house. This was a direct command‚ in encrypted military language‚ to start
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the Great Wall of China on a Christmas Holiday three years ago. It was winter and the beautiful white snow poured down on the frozen ground. The chilling wind seeped into the thick layers of my jacket and touched my body with its cold slender fingers. We used the cable car to reach the top of The Great Wall. Sitting in the cable car was a frightening experience because it sways heavily due to the strong wind blowing on the cold metal surface. The cable cars were forced to stop very often because of
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