Max Oeschlaeger is an American ecological philosopher. Oeschlaeger received his B.A.‚ M.A.‚ and Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University. He is affiliated with the department of philosophy and religion studies at the University of North Texas. Oeschlaeger’s book The Idea of Wilderness was published through the Yale University Press. Similar to Zuk’s book Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex‚ Diet‚ and How We Live‚ Oeschlaeger discusses agriculture and how it has impacted humans
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Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism(1905; trans. Baehr & Wells 2002) is a pivotal text when considering the sociological and economic development of modern day capitalism. Writing in the beginning of the 20th Century‚ Weber was a thinker who adopted a more diverse and intricate way of considering society than the rather limited evolutionist or Marxist ways of thinking that were prevalent to his time. In this essay‚ Weber relates the ethical background of the Reformed religious
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One famous philosopher‚ Xenophanes‚ addressed some of these theological and philosophical questions and denied traditional views about Olympian gods. His theory repudiated the existence of many gods‚ dismissed any conjured images of gods‚ and proposed the presence of only “One god” that was all-powerful. In this paper we will discuss and summarize Xenophanes’ rejection of Greek myth and images of gods‚ in favor of his more philosophical and rational “god.” Homer and Hesiod were among two of the
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Dupain vs. Zahalka Max Dupain’s photo ‘Sunbaker’ taken in 1937 is a black and white photo of a young‚ fit‚ tanned male lying on the sand at the beach. It shows the head and shoulders of the man‚ who is lying flat on his stomach in the bright sunlight. His head is laid to one side on one arm so you cannot see his face. His other arm is lying out in front. You can see drops of seawater on his body that glistens in the sun. This photo is taken head on and very low down. The sun is coming from behind
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For centuries‚ sociologists have analyzed social stratification‚ its root causes‚ and its effects on society. Theorists Karl Marx and Max Weber disagreed about the nature of class‚ in particular. Other sociologists applied traditional frameworks to stratification. Karl Marx Karl Marx based his conflict theory on the idea that modern society has only two classes of people: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The bourgeoisie are the owners of the means of production: the factories‚ businesses
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Conflict theories are perspectives in social science that emphasize the social‚ political or material inequality of a social group‚ that critique the broad socio-political system‚ or that otherwise detract from structural functionalism and ideological conservativism. Conflict theories draw attention to power differentials‚ such as class conflict‚ and generally contrast historically dominant ideologies. It is therefore a macro level analysis of society. Karl Marx is the father of the social conflict
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Katharine Weber’s article entitled "The factories of lost children" was a very interesting read. I am familiar with the triangle shirt factory fire but wasn’t aware of the fires that occurred in 1993 and 2000. This essay was very well written‚ it has a lot of detail and is a has vivid image‚ for example when she was describing the girls jumping from the building and plummeting to their deaths instead of staying and burning. It was very emotional and reminded me of the images of September 11th when
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Triangle Waist Company (manufacture of women clothing and linens)‚ located in the lower Manhattan area of New York City in the Asch Building. Triangle Waist Company had two owners Max Blanck and Issac Harris. Black and Harris went to partnership that would capitalize on Blancks business sense and Harris industry expertise. (PBS) Both men were about profits for the company and not their own employees working conditions that would lead to one of the worst disasters. In the Asch Building‚ the owners
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Max Black build his ideas on Ivor’s assumptions and tried to bring the phenomenon to a more comprehensive and detailed investigation. Black on one hand‚ criticized the Aristotelian argument of ‘substitution’‚ on the other hand he elaborated on the ‘comparison’ perspective. Black’s main contribution is the refinement of Ivor’s ‘interaction’ views (Black 1962). The interaction view was first advocated by the literary theorist Richards (1936) and was subsequently developed by the philosopher Max Black
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Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is a study of the relationship between the ethics of ascetic Protestantism and the emergence of the spirit of modern capitalism. Weber argues that the religious ideas of groups such as the Calvinists played a role in creating the capitalistic spirit. Weber first observes a correlation between being Protestant and being involved in business‚ and declares his intent to explore religion as a potential cause of the modern economic conditions
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