Content Book 1 - Extra Social Factors Suicide and Psychopathic States Durkheim, as mentioned in the introduction, conducted the study of suicide to prove that it was social, rather than extra social factors that influenced suicide. The first extra social factor, to which suicide was mostly attributed to is insanity. ... Therefore the concept of monomania, where an individual displays normal behavior in every other action but shows absolute abnormality in just one particular action is unacceptable and therefore the idea that insanity causes suicide does not hold true according to Durkheim S...

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According to the Oxford dictionary, a principle is "a rule or belief governing one's behavior," a, "fundamental truth," that serves as the base of, "morally correct behaviour and attitudes."1 This brings us to the question: what should be judged as morally correct? ... I personally believe that the hero, in order to become one, needs an ideology to follow and this ideology will determine all his act and his behavior. ... Does the hero modify established social values? ... In summary, from Hegel's point of view, it is possible, even unavoidable for the hero of the age of heroism t...

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