...“The Admission of Ignorance as the Starting Point of Philosophy” Philosophy 101 July 1, 2010 Plato’s story of the “Apology” professes to be a record of the actual speech that Socrates delivered in his own defense during his trial and conviction before a jury of 501 men in Athens. Socrates was charged with corrupting the youth of Athens and introducing strange gods to the city. Socrates addresses the men of Athens as follows: “Do not create a disturbance, gentleman, even if you think I am boasting, for the story I shall tell does not originate with me, but I will refer you to a trustworthy source. I shall call upon the god of Delphi as witness to the existence and nature of my wisdom, if it be such. You know Chaerephon; he was my friend from youth, and a friend of most you, as he shared your exile and your return. You surely know the kind of man he was, how impulsive in any course of action. He went to Delphi at one time and ventured to ask the oracle – as I say, gentlemen, do not create a disturbance – he asked if any man was wiser than I, and the Pythian replied that no one was wiser. Chaerephon is dead, but his brother, will testify to you about this.” (Plato 25-26) Socrates recounts to the men of Athens how he took this news with great puzzlement. “What can the god mean? And what is the interpretation of this riddle? What can the oracle mean when he says that I am the wisest of men?” Socrates knew the oracle could not lie, and yet he thought that he had...
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...his own tragedy. In response to Goneril and Regan’s suggestion that Lear should disband his knights Lear says, “You see me here, you gods, a poor old man!/ As full of grief as age; wretched in both!/ If it be you that stirs these daughters’ hearts/ Against their father, fool me not so much” (II.iv.267-270). Lear remains blind to his role in the tragedy. Rather than attributing his daughters’ actions to his own lack of foresight, he blames the Gods for his daughter’s actions. Even as the storm rages upon his head he sees himself as a victim, saying, “I am a man/ More sinned against than sinning” (III.ii.57-58). Lear is not evil. He truly sees himself as the victim of forces outside himself. His sin lies not in cruelty, but in a pride and ignorance born out, as A. C. Bradley states, “a long life of absolute power, in which he has been flattered to the top of his bent” (Bradley, 282). In order for Lear to achieve salvation, he must humble himself by admitting his own faults. This is no small task. Because, as Regan says, “he hath but/ slenderly known himself” (I.i.291-292). Surrounded by sycophants his entire life, Lear has never needed to undergo a reflective moment. His inability to see himself as the cause of his suffering prevents Lear from humbling himself enough to seek redemption. Indeed, Lear does not humble himself until he has lost his power as king and alienated himself from his family. While arguing about whether Lear should retain any of his knights, Goneril and Regan...
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...OVERVIEW OF DISNEYLAND IN HONG KONG The Disney Theme Park in Honk Kong was first announced to the public in 1997. Initially it was welcomed by the public after the Asian financial crisis because of the announcement of projected benefits coupling with “Disney” tourism and the associated employment opportunities. Although the Walt Disney Company expressed a strong commitment and responsibilities towards conservation of natural resources, it had enormous environmental costs which resulted intense public criticism. The Disneyland earned less revenue than estimated. And Disney had to take immediate action to improve its operations and safeguard its “green” reputation. The background of Honk Kong Disney land had a long history. After nine months of intense and detailed negotiations, the Hong Kong special Administrative Region Government and the Walt Disney Company reached a preliminary agreement to commence the construction in November, 2001. After that Disney had taken some theme Park strategies. The company relied on two approach- expanding existing parks while entering into the new territories. And it was Disney’s trade mark tactic in attaining global profitability. Despite of ups and downs the company continued to approach governments’ worldwide including those at home. In the early 1990s, Disney representatives approached the Hong Kong government. During the negotiation period with the Hong Kong administration, Disney also entered into discussion with the Shanghai Government...
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...Business Ethics in a Hospital Setting Darlene V Nickerson Columbia Southern University Abstract Business ethics in a hospital setting includes a review of many areas. Ethical considerations include the areas of patient care, nursing ethics, physician ethics, patient privacy, and medical billing practices. This paper will touch on ethical concerns for each of these topics. Keywords: hospitals, ethics, patient care, nursing, physicians Business Ethics in a Hospital Setting When beginning a discussion of business ethics in a hospital setting it is important to take a broad approach. Because a hospital is a business and also a treatment facility, the ethical concerns must be considered not only for areas such as billing and privacy but also for ethics related to the appropriate care of patients, nursing ethics, and physician ethics. The ethics of the treatment methods employed based on the patient’s condition must also be considered. Ethics and Patient Care I believe that when discussing the ethical implications of patient care it is helpful to review a real-world scenario. One highly publicized case involved Terri Schiavo and her husband’s fight to stop her tube feedings as there was no hope for her recovery (VandeKieft, 2005). One reason for the high visibility of this case in the media occurred because the patient's husband and the patient's family disagreed on the diagnosis (VandeKieft, 2005). Terri suffered a cardiac arrest due to severe hypokalemia (low potassium...
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...PART – V PROFESSIONAL NO – COPYING NO – DUPLICATION EXAMINEES DESCRIPTIVE QUESTIONNAIRE The 20 times that follow are information about you. Please supply the information as HONESTLY and ACCURATELY as you can. The data that will be obtained from these items shall be held strictly confidential. Each item is followed by several possible answer. On your sheet, shade completely the box that corresponds to the number of the answer that specifically pertains to you. 1. 2. Sex : Civil Status : 1. Male 1. Single 3. Widow/widower 2. Female 2. Married 4. Separated/Divorce 3. 32-28 years old 3. Age bracket where you belong : 1. 18-24 years old 2. 25-31 years old 2. 39-45 years old 5. More than 45 years old 4. Highest educational attainment: 1. College graduate 2. Diploma/Certificate 3. With Master’s Units 4. Master’s Degree 5. With Ph.D. Units/Degree 5. Year of last attendance in school : 1. Before 1985 2. 1986-1990 4. 1996-2000 5. After 2000 3. 1991-1995 6. What honours did you receive when you graduated from college? 1. Summa Cum laude 2. Magna Cum laude 3. Cum laude 4. Other academic award 5. None/not applicable 7. Present employment: 1. Government 2. Private 3. Self-employed 8. Type of present job: 1. Professional/Technical/Scientific 2. General Clerical 3. Trades and crafts (jobs requiring manual/mechanical/artistic skills) 4. Others 5. Not applicable manual dexterity of application of 9. Length of experience in present job: 1. Less than one year 2. One to two years 3. Three...
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...PART – V PROFESSIONAL NO – COPYING NO – DUPLICATION EXAMINEES DESCRIPTIVE QUESTIONNAIRE The 20 times that follow are information about you. Please supply the information as HONESTLY and ACCURATELY as you can. The data that will be obtained from these items shall be held strictly confidential. Each item is followed by several possible answer. On your sheet, shade completely the box that corresponds to the number of the answer that specifically pertains to you. 1. 2. Sex : Civil Status : 1. Male 1. Single 3. Widow/widower 2. Female 2. Married 4. Separated/Divorce 3. 32-28 years old 3. Age bracket where you belong : 1. 18-24 years old 2. 25-31 years old 2. 39-45 years old 5. More than 45 years old 4. Highest educational attainment: 1. College graduate 2. Diploma/Certificate 3. With Master’s Units 4. Master’s Degree 5. With Ph.D. Units/Degree 5. Year of last attendance in school : 1. Before 1985 2. 1986-1990 4. 1996-2000 5. After 2000 3. 1991-1995 6. What honours did you receive when you graduated from college? 1. Summa Cum laude 2. Magna Cum laude 3. Cum laude 4. Other academic award 5. None/not applicable 7. Present employment: 1. Government 2. Private 3. Self-employed 8. Type of present job: 1. Professional/Technical/Scientific 2. General Clerical 3. Trades and crafts (jobs requiring manual/mechanical/artistic skills) 4. Others 5. Not applicable manual dexterity of application of 9. Length of experience in present job: 1. Less than one year 2. One to two years 3. Three...
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...PART – V PROFESSIONAL NO – COPYING NO – DUPLICATION EXAMINEES DESCRIPTIVE QUESTIONNAIRE The 20 times that follow are information about you. Please supply the information as HONESTLY and ACCURATELY as you can. The data that will be obtained from these items shall be held strictly confidential. Each item is followed by several possible answer. On your sheet, shade completely the box that corresponds to the number of the answer that specifically pertains to you. 1. 2. Sex : Civil Status : 1. Male 1. Single 3. Widow/widower 2. Female 2. Married 4. Separated/Divorce 3. 32-28 years old 3. Age bracket where you belong : 1. 18-24 years old 2. 25-31 years old 2. 39-45 years old 5. More than 45 years old 4. Highest educational attainment: 1. College graduate 2. Diploma/Certificate 3. With Master’s Units 4. Master’s Degree 5. With Ph.D. Units/Degree 5. Year of last attendance in school : 1. Before 1985 2. 1986-1990 4. 1996-2000 5. After 2000 3. 1991-1995 6. What honours did you receive when you graduated from college? 1. Summa Cum laude 2. Magna Cum laude 3. Cum laude 4. Other academic award 5. None/not applicable 7. Present employment: 1. Government 2. Private 3. Self-employed 8. Type of present job: 1. Professional/Technical/Scientific 2. General Clerical 3. Trades and crafts (jobs requiring manual/mechanical/artistic skills) 4. Others 5. Not applicable manual dexterity of application of 9. Length of experience in present job: 1. Less than one year...
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...Abuse VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE abandon absorb abandonment abandoned absorbent 4 Account 5 Acquire 6 Adapt abusive accountable COLLOCATION to be forced to abandon to abandon stg completely/entirely to absorb quickly/rapidly to be abused emotionally/physically/sexua lly/verbally to be/become abusive take sth into account bank account to be accountable for sth to make/hold sb accountable to acquire knowledge/skills language acquisition to adapt successfully/well to be adaptable highly/very adaptable acquire acquisition adapt adaptation adaptability adaptable adequacy inadequacy adequate inadequate 7 Adequate/Inadequate 8 Admission abuse abuser accountability account abuse ADVERB admit admission 1 adequately inadequately adequacy of sth to be/seem adequate for sth to admit doing sth to admit that + sentence to admit honestly/openly/freely to refuse to admit to be willing to admit UPPER- INTERMEDIATE WORD LIST 9 Adopt (idea) adopt adopted affair affairs 10 Affair 11 Aim adoption to adopt a baby/child to adopt a new approach aim aim aimless amusing amused 12 Amuse amuse amusement 13 Analyze analyze aimlessly analysis 14 Ancient 15 Anticipate 16 Anxiety 17 Anyhow ancient anticipate anticipation anxiety anxious 2 anxiously anyhow to handle an affair to deal with an affair current...
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...Essay on Christianity. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. From the 1880 edition of The Works of Shelley in Verse and Prose, edited by H. Buxton Forman. Click here for Forman's editorial preface. ESSAY ON CHRISTIANITY. THE Being who has influenced in the most memorable manner the opinions and the fortunes of the human species, is Jesus Christ. At this day, his name is connected with the devotional feelings of two hundred millions of the race of man. The institutions of the most civilized portions of the globe derive their authority from the sanction of his doctrines; he is the hero, the God, of our popular religion. His extraordinary genius, the wide and rapid effect of his unexampled doctrines, his invincible gentleness and benignity, the devoted love borne to him by his adherents, suggested a persuasion to them that he was something divine. The supernatural events which the historians of this wonderful man subsequently asserted to have been connected with every gradation of his career, established the opinion. His death is said to have been accompanied by an accumulation of tremendous prodigies. Utter darkness fell upon the earth, blotting the noonday sun; dead bodies, arising from their graves, walked through the public streets, and an earthquake shook the astonished city, rending the rocks of the surrounding mountains. The philosopher may attribute the application of these events to the death of a reformer, or the events themselves to a visitation of that universal Pan who—— *****...
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...campus these days, your best bet is to stop by the English department. The laughter, moreover, is not confined to campuses. It has become a holiday ritual for The New York Times to run a derisory article in deadpan Times style about the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, where thousands of English professors assemble just before the new year. Lately it has become impossible to say with confidence whether such topics as “Eat Me; Captain Cook and the Ingestion of the Other” or “The Semiotics of Sinatra” are parodies of what goes on there or serious presentations by credentialed scholars.2 At one recent English lecture, the speaker discussed a pornographic “performance artist” who, for a small surcharge to the price of admission to her stage show, distributes flashlights to anyone in the audience wishing to give her a speculum exam. By looking down at the mirror at just the right angle, she is able, she says, to see her own cervix reflected in the pupil of the beholder, and thereby (according to the lecturer) to fulfill the old Romantic dream of eradicating the...
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...Th e T yranny of Gui lt • Pa s c a l B ru c k n e r Translated from the French by s t ev e n r e n da l l The tyranny of Guilt An Essay on Western Masochism • P r i n c e t o n u n i v e r si t y P r e s s Princeton and Oxford english translation copyright © 2010 by Princeton university Press First published as La tyrannie de la pénitence: essai sur le masochisme occidental by Pascal Bruckner, copyright © 2006 by Grasset & Fasquelle Published by Princeton university Press, 41 William street, Princeton, new Jersey 08540 in the united kingdom: Princeton university Press, 6 oxford street, Woodstock, oxfordshire OX20 1TW press.princeton.edu all rights reserved library of congress cataloging-in-Publication data Bruckner, Pascal. [tyrannie de la pénitence. english] The tyranny of guilt: an essay on Western masochism / Pascal Bruckner; translated from the French by steven rendall. p. cm. includes index. isBn 978-0-691-14376-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. civilization, Western— 20th century. 2. civilization, Western—21st century. 3. international relations—Moral and ethical aspects. 4. Western countries—Foreign relations. 5. Western countries—intellectual life. 6. Guilt 7. self-hate (Psychology) 8. World politics. i. title. CB245.B7613 2010 909’.09821--dc22 2009032666 British library cataloging-in-Publication data is available cet ouvrage, publié dans le cadre d’un programme d’aide à la publication, bénéficie du soutien du Ministère des affaires étrangères et du service...
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...The Project Gutenberg EBook of Phaedo, by Plato This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Phaedo The Last Hours Of Socrates Author: Plato Translator: Benjamin Jowett Release Date: October 29, 2008 [EBook #1658] Last Updated: January 15, 2013 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PHAEDO *** Produced by Sue Asscher, and David Widger PHAEDO By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION.PHAEDO | INTRODUCTION. After an interval of some months or years, and at Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other Phliasians by Phaedo the 'beloved disciple.' The Dialogue necessarily takes the form of a narrative, because Socrates...
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...Apology Plato Published: -400 Categorie(s): Non-Fiction, Philosophy Source: http://en.wikisource.org 1 About Plato: Plato (Greek: Plátōn, "wide, broad-shouldered") (428/427 BC – 348/ 347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, the second of the great trio of ancient Greeks –Socrates, Plato, originally named Aristocles, and Aris- totle– who between them laid the philosophical foundations of Western culture. Plato was also a mathematician, writer of philosophical dia- logues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death. Plato's brilliance as a writer and thinker can be witnessed by reading his Socratic dialogues. Some of the dialogues, let- ters, and other works that are ascribed to him are considered spurious. Plato is thought to have lectured at the Academy, although the pedago- gical function of his dialogues, if any, is not known with certainty. They have historically been used to teach philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathem- atics, and other subjects about which he wrote. Source: Wikipedia Also available on Feedbooks for Plato: • The Complete Plato (-347) • The Republic (-380) • Symposium(-400) • Charmides(-400) • Protagoras(-400) • Statesman(-400) • Ion(-400) • Crito(-400) • Meno(-400) • Phaedo(-400) Note: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http://www.feedbooks.com Strictly...
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...Adventures with God Real Life Inspirational Stories 37 Allan David Weatherall Contents Introduction:.......................................................................................... i Chapter 1: Random Acts of Kindness....................................................1 Chapter 2: What is Eritrea? . ............................................................... 4 Chapter 3: The Power of Faith & Hope ............................................. 11 Chapter 4: Hey, Chuck Norris! . ........................................................ 14 Chapter 5: We’ve Been Expecting You! ............................................ 18 Chapter 6: On the Road to Jerusalem ................................................ 24 Chapter 7: Jerusalem . ........................................................................ 28 Chapter 8: But, I’m not a Catholic .................................................... 32 Chapter 9: America... here I come ...................................................... 37 Chapter 10: My Friend, John . ............................................................41 Chapter 11: Finding God in the Storm . ............................................ 45 Chapter 12: Trusting God in the War Zone ...................................... 49 Chapter 13: Jahzal . ............................................................................ 52 Chapter 14: The Steadfast Faithfulness of God ................................. 57 Chapter 15: Confrontational Love in the...
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...Crisis Communication in theory and practice: Analysis of cultural influence, strategy applicability, and stakeholder relevance in Australia and New Zealand Natascha Pancic A thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of International Communication Unitec New Zealand, 2010 ABSTRACT This research project explores crisis communication in theory and practice in Australia and New Zealand with specific focus on cultural influence, strategy applicability, and stakeholder relevance. A mixed-method approach was used to evaluate crisis communication in its theoretical and practical constituents. The research project comprises of the two data collection methods of content analysis and in-depth interviews. The content analysis, the selected method to evaluate the theory, was conducted from published research studies in leading Australian and New Zealand Public Relations and Communication journals, the websites of the PRism journal, the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA), the Public Relations Institutes of Australia (PRIA) and New Zealand (PRINZ), and via the database search platform Ebsco. The content analysis provided information about the number of published articles, leading theoretical models, research methods, and research orientation. The in-depth interviews, the chosen method to investigate the crisis communication practices, were conducted with three Australian and three New Zealand practitioners...
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