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This paper discusses judgment and perception in Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels". The author investigates the various judgments in the book describing how they move from judgments based upon the physical appearances of the people Gulliver encounters, to the mental and moral characteristics of the world.

From the Paper
"Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift is a satiric comment on the various ills of society. Through the adventures of Gulliver, Swift entertains the reader with a number of unlikely adventures that lead to the ultimate mental decline of the main character. Below both these adventures and Gulliver's reactions to them are considered. I find that the fantastic adventures through which Swift creates his satire are often more believable than the mental processes of his main character.
Gulliver's Adventures.

Swift's purpose in writing Gulliver's travels is to comment destructively upon the values and philosophy of his time. He also aims to do this in as striking a way as possible, by making his character the prototype of the typical respected person. Thus the character of Lemuel Gulliver is initially rational and believable. Perhaps this plays a part in the later perception of his reactions."

Tags:judgement, perception, jonathan, swift, physical, moral, society

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This paper uses the definition by Benner, Tanner and Chelsea that clinical judgment is often based on patterns of responses, the specific case and the people involved in the situation. The author points out that making a clinical judgment requires nurses to use critical thinking skills. The paper relates that often clinical judgment is based on the patient, family, diagnosis and the situation.

From the Paper
"What is clinical judgment? How does a nurse decide what clinical judgment to make in different cases? The definition by Benner, Tanner, and Chelsea states that clinical judgment is often based on patterns of responses, the specific case, and the people involved in the situation. Making a clinical judgment requires nurses to use critical thinking skills. Often clinical judgment is based on the patient, family, diagnosis, and the situation. The definition of clinical judgment by Benner, Tanner, and Chelsea makes common sense. This definition of clinical judgment most nurses will agree that it is the best definition because past experiences and knowledge mixed with the relationship the nurse has with the patient and family are combined in making clinical judgments. "

Tags:critical, thinking, judgment

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In this article, the writer summarizes the "Fourth Moment" from Immanuel Kant's 'Critique on Judgment'. The paper explores the line of reasoning by which Kant argues that although judgments regarding beauty are entirely personal, the human mind projects them outward onto other people, thereby interjecting what Kant refers to as a necessity into reasoning about personal taste.

Tags:judgment, beauty

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The writer relates that the arrogance of age is one example in his life where he had made a 'blind' choice because he assumed an elder superiority over rational judgment. Much like King Lear, this writer had chosen the wrong persons to inherit a valuable asset, which invariably ended in a tragic and destructive way; King Lear had lost his ability to rule, just as he had lost his old car to an irresponsible cousin. The writer emphasizes that in this manner, he was blind because of his arrogance in assuming that those that respect his status as an elder would be more responsible.

Tags:lear, judgment, cordelia

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This paper discusses David Hume's theory of knowledge to describe how and why we make judgments of causality according to his thought. The writer discusses that Hume, who devoted his whole life to epistemology, the nature of knowledge, its foundations, scope, and [especially] its validity, was the most extreme proponent of this empiricist theory principally because of his philosophy of causality that sought to destroy the old a priori metaphysics of innate ideas including "the more speculative metaphysical views" of Rene Descartes. The writer analyzes Hume's beliefs, taking into consideration theories and views of other philosophers.

From the Paper
"David Hume (1711-1776) was the last and perhaps most controversially influential of "the three most famous British Empiricists of the eighteenth century" [John Locke 1632-1704, and George Berkeley (1685-1753](Flage 1). Although Hume's ideas had great impact on Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, and Charles Darwin, the concept of empiricism can be traced back at least to Protagoras of Abdera, a fifth century Greek Sophist, who propounded the radical relativism that "Of all things the measure is man, of the things that are, that {or'how'] they are, and of things that [or 'how'] they are not" (Poster 4). Protagoras' taught that judgment of qualities, as abstractions like truth, are subjective, relative only to the individual observer. This, of course, is the basis of empiricism, the philosophy that all knowledge is derived from the experiences of the senses."

Tags:judgments, causality

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This paper relates the parable of the final judgment and its setting. The author performs an exegetical analysis. The paper explores the meaning of having the apostles as the only audience for this parable rather than a crowd.

From the Paper
"Jesus said, "And when the Son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with him then he will sit upon his glorious throne. And all the nations will be gathered before him and he will separate them from one another as a shepherd separates...""

Tags:final judgment parable, bible, new testament

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The paper explains the history behind the business judgment rule that has protected executives from the consequences of bad business decisions that were made in good faith. The paper looks at how the business judgment rule impacts corporate decision-making and how it is perceived as an abstention doctrine. The paper then examines what went wrong in the corporate structure to help create the current economic crisis, and discusses how the main problem is with modern executive salary structuring that encouraged short-term thinking, creating a real incentive to cheat stockholders. The paper considers how the current financial crisis will impact the business judgment rule by looking at how the courts are treating lawsuits challenging the behavior that led to the current crisis.

Outline:
Introduction
Why the Business Judgment Rule Developed
How the Business Judgment Rule Impacts Corporate Decision-Making
The Business Judgment Rule as Abstention Doctrine
What Went Wrong
How the Financial Crisis Will Impact the Business Judgment Rule
Conclusion

From the Paper
"The business judgment rule is a rule that gives corporate executives the latitude to make business-related decisions without the ever-present specter of legal action if those decisions should prove wrong. The business judgment rule presumes the corporate directors are motivated to act in the best interests of the corporation and the stockholders. Because of this presumption, courts will generally refuse to review executive actions, without an allegation that those executives have violated their fiduciary responsibility to the company. The business judgment rule makes sense, given that even the best-informed executives are sometimes going to make bad decisions; leaving every decision open for judicial review would paralyze the corporate board system, by making them vulnerable to constant litigation. However, the business judgment rule does not free executives from all judicial oversight. In order for decisions to qualify under that rule, they must be made in good faith, with reasonable care, and be made to further the bests interests of the corporation. It is very difficult for a litigant to rebut the presumption that an executive decision qualifies for immunity from suit under the business judgment rule."

Tags:abstention, doctrine, executive, salaries, compensation, decision-making, lawsuits

Abstract
Both Immanuel Kant and David Hume hold that community, rather than merely individual response, plays a major role in the judgment of taste. Both Kant and Hume also hold that any single individual's judgment of taste is not superior over another. The paper explains that for there to be a meaningful definition of "judgment of taste," there must be some measure which transcends limited comparisons between individual judgment. For these two philosophers, the author finds, this measure is in part in the thing being presented and perceived and in part in the community of individuals doing the perceiving and responding. Nevertheless, the paper shows that the best their grand thinking achieves is that judgment of taste is achieved only through some sort of positive consensus won by an object over a long period of time and, preferably, over several cultures as well. It argues that the fact that the works they refer to are exclusively by white European males does not support the argument about the importance of cross-cultural judgment.

From the Paper
"Still, even in such ideal circumstances, the individual will simply never be free of the "interest" which works to prejudice the individual's judgment on both the conscious and unconscious levels. If individual prejudice could be eliminated, of course, there would be no need for the philosophers to rely on the "community" aspect of the judgment of taste. The basis of this community aspect is a consensus, however Kant and Hume dress it up. If a work of art, for example, endures through generations and even centuries as an admired piece of work, as one which impresses the mind and stirs the emotions, then it can be said to have achieved a superior judgment of taste from the community."

Tags:prejudice, American, Beauty

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This paper analyzes a personal life evaluation of the blindness of poor character judgment in relation to William Shakespeare's "King Lear." It specifically discusses the poor character judgment of King Lear by not choosing Cordelia to take over his empire and invariably leaving his domains in the hands of his two corrupt daughters, Goneril and Regan. It also presents the writer's own personal experience with relation to the "blindness" of poor character judgment.

From the Paper
"In conclusion, the arrogance of age is one example in my life where I had made a 'blind' choice because I assumed an elder superiority over rational judgment. Much like king Lear, I had chosen the wrong persons to inherit a valuable asset, which invariably ended in a tragic and destructive way. King Lear had lost his ability to rule, just as I had lost my old car to an irresponsible cousin. In this manner, I was blind because of my arrogance in assuming that those that respect my status as an elder would be more responsible. King Lear also made this mistake by allowing his superficial and usurping daughters to inherit his kingdom over the far more honest and noble Cordelia. This is how my own life experience was blind the truth in relation to King Lear of William Shakespeare's tragic play."

Tags:arrogance, responsibility, choices

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This paper offers a discussion and analysis of the artwork entitled "The Judgment of Paris," by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Specifically, the paper describes the subject of the work and analyzes it with regard to its expressive content. The paper attempts to answer the following questions: What statement do you think the artist wanted to make? What techniques did the artist use to make this statement? "The Judgment of Paris" depicts a famous mythological scene with great attention to detail and reality.

From the Paper
"Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German painter who lived from 1472 to 1553, and painted in the Northern Renaissance style. This painting, "The Judgment of Paris," is tempera and oil on wood, which measures 401/2 x 28 and Cranach painted it sometime around 1528. Cranach enjoyed painting in a natural style, blending his figures with the surrounding landscape, and this painting is a good example of his technique (Editors). The landscape behind the figures is quite detailed. It even includes a medieval castle on the edge of a towering cliff, along with a medieval town set off in the distance in the valley, with a ship floating serenely in the town's harbor."

Tags:artwork, painting, german