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  Bacon uses the world "idol" with a different meaning behind it. He claims that idol is an error made in society. We get the errors from ourselves, culture, false teachings, etc. I do not think the term "idol" suits this well at all. When I think of "idol," I think of something positive. An idol is something you look to for what you want to be like or look like.      Bacon’s uses the word “idol” meaning that these are the false images in which a person has an error; they idols are errors in man.  We have the tribal idol that symbolizes our natural human errors as a group. The idols of the cave being our own errors that arise from our own minds and the idol of the marketplace represents errors that come from others; a marketplace idol is like hearing something false from someone and telling others of it, sort of like a rumor. I believe that the least severe idol is the idol of the tribe; we constantly come up with new information as to not ba...

  Unlike Plato, I believe that our senses are important. It is much easier to learn with  all of  the senses, as well as to understand the world with your senses. Of course, someone missing their hearing, like me, can still learn just as much and more than a person with all senses. However, because I lack a sense, I  have to  try 100x harder than a person with all five senses. Even people, like me, rely more on the other senses to know and to better understand.       Although I do not think that praising sense perception is materialistic, there are alternatives to solely valuing sense experience. Using knowledge, logical facts, common sense, and critical thinking would be quite helpful.     It would be unlike anything we are used to. I believe that it would be a world without anything, no noise, no sight, no texture, no taste. It would be plain and unrecognizable.      If I had ...

Virginia Woolf knew that her targeted audience was women and the difficult things they used to go through. She talks a lot about how different women and men were and how women now should be grateful for what they are able to do   It reveals concerns about the women life and how the men treat the women on a daily basis. She thinks women should have a room for a hobby she enjoys, which for Woolf it would be a room to write in. A woman could have a amazing talent but it would be very difficult for her to expand it as well as explore more of it without a place of her own. The temperamental traits of both men and women are aggressive, unforgiving, and sexually driven.   In today's society, women are expected to deal with their own problems and to be emotionally and financially independent. In our society today women are supposed to be proper and to live with their emotions but women who live more like men and act emotionally distant are rej...

Wollstonecraft talks mainly about women's rights in this essay, and how women can be independent and that's exactly what she supported. The fact that they thought women had to live with a man, and  weren't able to  hold jobs like men could, was completely unnecessary. Women should be just as equal as men and no one should be discriminated because of their gender.   Basically  women were viewed as practically pointless.      At the time the essay was written, women were considered as a property meaning that the men were more superior than they were. Mary Wollstonecraft argues that women should be treated differently because they cannot get "real jobs" nor do they have a say in politics.   Therefore  they were unable to live their own independent life because the men typically made choices for them.     I do believe the way that women are treated in society reflect their thoughts and actions. Women t...

The basis of scientific pedagogy for Montessori is basically the use of the scientific method when the teacher is instructing, freedom for students, independence, and respect for students needs physically, mentally, and environmentally. She supports the student having choices and freedoms in the classroom to make the learning more enjoyable and memorable. To make the information more interesting she suggests the use of hands on activities and the use of materials rather than a lecture.   The classroom environment is very important in learning. The child must be comfortable in order to learn. If I child comes into a classroom and only sees the board and books and individual desks around the room they may become uninterested. The environment must be clean and inviting with fun and educational materials throughout.   Children must have freedom when learning because after instruction they will need to know the basis of freedom and how to handle having it. Freedom makes e...

1.  I agree with Smith quotes on the dominance of agriculture on our nations growth.  Smith is correct to say the nation grows because he is the outline and natural course of first agriculture, manufactures and foreign commerce.  you can trace all profits and spending back to agriculture. 2.  Smith believes that business works best when its centered for on interest.  A good investment can go a long way.  Before investments ment bonds and stocks but now it could mean clothes or car that hold value and advertize you success.   3.  I agree with smith idea of the top three in capital but today's economy has shifted to support the technology and teaching of these resources for things like agriculture.  As before the profit came from mostly the job itself but now its the extras that add on.

America is an affluent society in the fact that it is extremely successful.  America lives up to the standards of our founding fathers.  A sign of America having an affluent society would be the fact that we have the strongest army.  Also, the fact that we are one of the most successful countries.  Qualifications of affluence would be power and wealth.  Without power and wealth no country would be very successful.  America has both of these traits.  Affluence, as I said before, results in a successful country.  For example, America, it is one of, if not the best, most successful country in the world today.     The government doesn't provide jobs for people unless they are involved in the education field, which would be teachers, principals, board members, etc.  An argument that would favor this proposal would be people running their own businesses.  The reason being that they have a guaranteed job....

1. Bourgeoisie's economic condition would be mostly upper class."Cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production and thereby the relations of the production." Marx said about Bourgeoisie. The economic condition of Proletariat is mostly lower and some middle class.  A majority of them are laborers that work for the class of Bourgeoisie.   2. Expanding the world market for goods affects national identity.  "Paves the way for worse crises and its own eventual ruin." and "by improving the means of production and communication, the bourgeoisie has forced the world into its own mold."  Marx believes expanding the world market will only allow more problems to shown themselves. 3. Marx expects communism to benefits the proletariat economic group.  "Communists work on behalf of the proletariat."  He wanted to enrich the life on the working class and make them as equal as the once upper class.   The rich ...

If Aristotle have had seen Howard Christy's painting of the signing of the Constitution of the U.S. he probably would have enjoyed it.  He believed in a government where leadership and laws that allowed the people to have the power.  In the painting it shows government and the commonwealth disagreeing and discussing what laws should be made. The painting includes The president standing and speaking, his cabinet members advising him from behind, the smaller population of congressmen who are in the front rows, and then the larger population of the people who are behind them. He would probably assume that it was formed by a democracy.  Mainly because of the smaller few being criticized by the lager many.  The populace in the back disagreeing with the government in the front. The men who signed the Constitution were men who just got out of a war with a government and had no want to return to that style of living.  They made just laws that would help th...

Martin Luther King Jr's point is extremely close to that of Henry David Thoreau's.  Most of Kings main points perfectly parallel Thoreau's reasons to not follow unjust laws that infringe upon someone's rights.  Both strongly agreed that laws that were not equal and just to all should not be followed and to follow them was going against one's duties.       I think that both writings are so close that it would be harder to believe that King didn't read Thoreau's work.    “Break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine” from Thoreau's writing.  We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." from King's letter.  Both of these quotes clearly show their intentions as one.  But some things between both their works do not line up.  King believed that all laws should follow the word of god lik...