Immigrants coming from Southern and Eastern Europe brought drastically different philosophies with them such as anarchism, anarchism, and Marxism (Eugenics Movement Archive). ... During the first phases of the American eugenics movement, those who thought themselves to be the highest standard of human beings started scientific basis that would try to help promote that eugenics was in the best interests of mankind. ... Hitler's social philosophy of promoting a genetic cleansing period to enhance human genetic characteristics devastated lives, communities, and the world. ... Once an idea t...

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Plato and Hobbes have similar philosophies for which one could compare regarding their theories in "The Republic," and "The Leviathan.... Plato explains in "The Republic" that the guardian is to be a really good and noble guardian of the state who will unite in himself philosophy, spirit, swiftness and strength (Plato, pg. 9). ... What Hobbes is saying is, human beings are put on this earth to look out for themselves; and if scarcity were to occur, they would look the other way if someone else needed help. ...

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Psychology evolved through three subjects philosophy, biology and physics. ... This would be a non-directive, where as a directive would be where the councillor tells the patient what to do and how to solve their problems; Humanist theory helps to listen to the patient's full problem which helps to "open them up" and understand their problems. ... Strengths of humanism are that, it helped people to realise, that it is important to study the human mind and the experiences that people go through. It helped, to stop other approaches becoming too extreme in ideas that were incorrect, and by ...

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"Descartes said only human being have a soul The philosophy of Descartes the Christian doctrine that animals do not have immortal souls has the extraordinary consequence that they do not have consciousness either. ... If the argument that capitalism is the root of all animal ills is not effective for the student, then they will have the other approaches to help them find an argument that is. ... By learning the philosophical/moral viewpoint of Animal Rights, students can join in and explain, define, or refine their personal philosophies and morals surrounding the issue. ...

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Though Edwards consistently produced well versed philosophy, none surpassed those written during the time of the Great Awakening during the 1730s and 1740s (Hatch 102). ... Stout put it perfectly when he said, "As one voice among thousands, Edwards helped perpetuate that quintessentially Puritan notion of a righteous city set high up a hill for all the world to see" (Hatch 157). ...

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There will be a lot of people who will exploit the use of neuroprosthetics to help further themselves in society. ... As a widely held philosophy, transhumanism argues for a future of ageless bodies, transcendent experiences, and extraordinary minds. ...

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In his Editor's Introduction to Sivaraksa's Seeds of Peace, Tom Ginsburg sums up the philosophy in words that could easily fit Emerson's "Self-Reliance" or Nature: "Question everything, look deeply, and then act from that insight" . ... It is important for religious scholars to work alongside ecologists, environmentalists and politicians to help solve this impeding crisis in a time where the problem is easily recognizable and many people are concerned, if not affected by it....

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New methods of farming the land were formed, such as the sowing of and harvesting of crops and the taming of animals to help or as food. ... This ease of living gave the population the opportunity to focus on developing new skills of agriculture, architecture, engineering, language, writing, philosophy, science and religion. ...

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And the second attempt was using philosophy and its "As if" theory, which explains that "our thought-activity includes a number of hypothesis who's groundlessness and absurdity we fully realize, and the same goes with religious doctrines" as they ar...

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