traced through the male line. The idea of utilitarianism suggests that human beings act in a way that highlights their own self-interest. It is based on pure factuality‚ leaves out on imagination. Dickens provides three vivid examples of this utilitarian logic in Hard Times through the characters of Mr. Thomas Gradgrind‚ Mr. Bounderby‚ and Mr. Gradgrind. Mr. Gradgrind educates his daughter‚ Louisa‚ with facts and facts alone. He raises her to disregard emotions and see everything in terms of statistics
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to say that by eliminating welfare‚ each person would have to pay less income taxes through obligatory payments. This would benefit society as a whole‚ since the number of Americans not on welfare outnumber the amount that are. Another reason a utilitarian would be opposed to welfare is because it allows people to be more complacent and lax about supporting themselves. By allowing people to not be productive citizens‚ they are not benefiting society as a whole‚ or the greatest amount of people. Another
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Christina Kiaer has described the main aim of the constructivist movement as ‘to mass produce transparent utilitarian things for use in everyday life’. How adequate is this description? Constructivism is primarily an art movement that was based in Russia in the early 20th century. It had a considerable link to the Russian Communist Revolution. They merged the arts with modern technological rationalism for political and ideological uses‚ being essentially a form of Soviet propaganda. The theory
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Buddhist Bioethics Words – 1‚036 Overview of Buddhist ideal and religion Siddhartha Gautama was a royal Nepalese man who lived around 2500 years ago. At 29 years of age‚ he left his wealthy lifestyle and spent years travelling India. During deep meditation‚ he had an epiphany‚ and saw life from a viewpoint never before experienced. This state is known as nirvana‚ and it was this epiphany that led to the formation of Buddhism. A Buddhist’s goal is to reach this heightened and awakened state
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and Nationalisms Lecture Outline Conceptual Approaches to Ethnicity: Primordialism vs. Instrumentalism History and Nature of Nationalism(s) Ethnicity as primordial and ethnicity as instrumental Critique of primordialism Critique of instrumentalism Primordialism vs. modernism Civic nationalism and ethnic or ethnonationalism The nation-state Summary Primordialism vs. Instrumentalism Ethnicity as primordial Ethnicity is ‘deeply ingrained in human history and experience’
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JOHN DEWEY CONTENTS 1. EARLY LIFE 2. WORK IN PSYCHOLOGY 3. WORK IN PHILOSOPHY 4. EDUCATIONAL REFORMS 5. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM 6. CONCLUSION EARLY LIFE "If I were asked to name the most needed of all reforms in the spirit of education I should say: ’Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life‚ and make of it the full meaning of the present life.’" - John Dewey John Dewey‚ an American philosopher‚ psychologist‚ and educational
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that ethnic conflict is driven by the aims of political leaders is central to the theory of Instrumentalism. Instrumentalism is based upon the notion that ethnic conflict is driven by either the relationship between economic wants – greed and grievance – or the active manipulation of ethnic identities by political leaders for their political gain. This essay will discuss to what degree Instrumentalism is to blame for the Rwandan Genocide of 1994‚ focussing on the notion of the elite manipulation
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ethnicity is inevitable‚ persistence is a given. Some would argue that‚ empirically‚ ID does appear to shift according to context. The theory is unable to explain prolong period of peace when it clearly states that conflict is inevitable. Instrumentalism- Multiple identities shit according to context. People Join forces only when there are benefits. Category that didn’t exist before can be created. Racial category of “Whites” for example previously did not exist. Ethnicity leads to conflict only
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Century American philosopher‚ psychologist and educational reformer. Along withCharles Sanders Peirce and William James‚ he is recognized as one of the founders of the largely American philosophical school of Pragmatism and his own doctrine of Instrumentalism. He was also one of the fathers of Functionalism (or Functional Psychology)‚ and a leading representative of the progressive movement in American education during the first half of the 20th Century. He developed a broad body of work encompassing
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No. Topic Source What I learnt from it 1 Gibbs – Reflective learning http://www3.hants.gov.uk/gibbs_reflective_cycle.pdf A PDF that enhances the Gibbs diagram 2 Professor Graham Gibbs http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/academic-practice/resources/learning-teaching-conference-2013/improving-university-learning-and-teaching-in-a-market-what-the-evidence-suggests-we-ought-to-be-doing-and-what-seems-to-be-going-on Graham Gibbs retired in 2008 from Oxford University. He is a much revered writer on teaching
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