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Nationalism in the United States is somewhat a blurred idea in the political arena. In the article "The Paradoxes of American Nationalism" Minxin Pei identifies two paradoxes of American nationalism at a general level and at the policymaking level. First, the United States is a highly nationalistic country but it is not regarded as nationalistic. Second, on a similar count policymakers in the United States have a very poor appreciation of the power of nationalism.

Tags:paradoxes, american, nationalism

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This paper explains that most of the information known about Zeno, who explained and developed the philosophical system of his mentor Parmenides, is based on the writings of Plato and from other works by Aristotle. The author explains that Zeno wrote forty different paradoxes based on the assumptions of plurality and motion. The paper relates that Empiricists' doctrine, which states that knowledge must be the result of experience, sees Zeno's doctrine as a form of Monism and therefore the paradox's on motion and pluralism fail as a philosophical theory.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Who was Zeno?
Zeno's Paradoxes
Empiricism
Compare the Empirical Argument with Zeno's Paradoxes
Conclusion

From the Paper
"Zeno's argument regarding the idea of not being able to exist without magnitude revolves around adding a thing with no magnitude to something else does not make the receiving thing larger and subtracting a thing of no magnitude will not make the receiving thing smaller. This then entails that since the magnitude-less items do not make things bigger or smaller then the thing of no magnitude most be nothing. Although Zeno's pluralism here is perplexing at the least, his ideas of motion are even more complicated."

Tags:parmenides, plurality, motion, experience, monism

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This paper discusses how the movie, "Fight Club", is bound up in one great paradox and how this sense of paradox is bound up in the very narrative. It looks at how the first two rules of Fight Club are that you must not talk about Fight Club, but the club's very existence and growth depends on the fact that everyone breaks that rule. It examines how nothing is quite as it seems in this movie, and much of the intensity and power of its message is bound up in those uncertainties. It also analyzes how three central paradoxes guide this film: the paradox of production, the paradox of power, and the paradox of patriarchy.

From the Paper
"One of the most basic questions posed by Fight Club is as to why men have allowed corporate culture to symbolically castrate them, to rob them of their free will and their internal experiences, and the fullness of their personhood. In essence, why hasn't there been a revolution? Tyler's answer is fear -- he suggests that only by overcoming fear of the pain and destruction (through facing that fear in the fighting ring), and in fact embracing that aspect of live, one is free to start that revolution. It's an extreme answer, of course, from an extreme individual. However, the question has been asked by many others who are far more academic and calm than Tyler. Early Marxist theory claimed that class oppression should result in widespread class-based revolution."

Tags:power, production, patriarchy, tyler

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In this article, the writer discusses how community-based organizations are tied to social norms which keep them from reaching their potential as agents of liberation and change.

From the Paper
"Nonprofit community-based and grassroots organizations hereinafter referred to as community organizations deliver help to individuals and communities that are in need. These needs can range from the basic necessities of food water and shelter to education legal representation protection from crime and others. The needs served that these organizations serve are outside those which governments and businesses tend to Gilmore. Thus community organizations fill gaps of service that are not being taken care of by other formal organizations. Nonetheless community organizations as ..."

Tags:Non-profit, Community-Based, Grassroots Organizations, women of color, activism, patriarchy

From the Paper
"Zeno of Elea was a disciple of Parmenides and lived in the fourth century B.C. He set forth a series of paradoxes, logical arguments leading to absurd or impossible conclusions proving that actions taken every day are actually not possible at all. Philosophers who followed had to cope with the logical ramifications of this sort of argument, a form of logic known as reductio ad absurdum. The paradoxes of Zeno differentiate between reason and experience, between what we know to be true through logic and what we know to be true from experience. Aristotle offered solutions to the paradoxes of Zeno in his Physics.

One of Zeno's primary paradoxes can be stated as follows:
Zeno argued that, even granting motion, one could never arrive anywhere, not even to such a simple goal as a ... "

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This paper looks into the many paradoxes of globalization, including its different implications for the developed and the developing world. The essay argues that globalization has brought about greater economic inequalities between the rich nations and the poor nations as well as greater inequalities between different social groups within developed countries. Furthermore, the essay argues that globalization of world culture mostly means its Americanization and the economic globalization is underlined by the free capitalism ideology.

Tags:globalization, change, society

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As an adherent of Greek philosopher Parmenides' teachings that plurality and change are unreal, Zeno (approximately 490 - 430 B.C.E.) set out to prove Parmenides right. His demonstrations attempted to show the absurdities of the opposite view, that the world really contains plurality and change. The paper explains Zeno's methods of taking his opponents' hypotheses and, by deducing from them contradictory consequences, reduce them to absurdity. The paper concentrates on Zeno's set of four riddles which he devised to illustrate the unreality of motion. By means of these riddles Zeno demonstrated that Pythagorean science cannot define motion without running into inconsistency or impossibility. The paper examines why these four short stories are paradoxes and explores some of the solutions put forward to resolve them.

From the Paper
"Brumbaugh says that the Pythagoreans seemed to agree that separate "points," and "moments" make up the physical world, including space and time. They thus would have defined motion as passing through a number of spatial points during a number of time moments, a definition similar to that which we have of velocity today. There was also agreement among the Pythagoreans that any continuous stretch, such as a line, could be bisected. However, the Pythagoreans did not agree on the size of the moments or points. They might have no size, or they might have a minimum, but finite, duration and extension, respectively. Furthermore, Brumbaugh suggests that the Pythagoreans did not agree on how they should think of the points making up or determining a line. Should they be thought of as points next to each other, or as points marking off segments, with spacing filling in the intervals between? (Brumbaugh, 63f)"

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This paper explains that Nicod?s criterion of confirmation is one of the most important evidences around which the "Ravens' Paradox" revolves. The author points out that the "Ravens' Paradox" itself seems to revolve around two elements. The first is that the observation of a purple cow really has nothing to do with the generalization of the statement ?all ravens are black?, and the second is that such an observation also proves that ?all ravens are white?. The paper concludes that Hempel?s solution to the problem resides in the fact that he manages to fit in both Nicod?s criterion and the equivalence condition by introducing probabilities.

Table of Contents
Nicod's Criterion of Confirmation and the Equivalence Condition
The Paradox of the Ravens

From the Paper
"Carl Hempel was the first to publish the paradox of the ravens in Theoria, a Swedish periodical, in 1937, and ever since, the paradox has been a source of numerous controversies. In his paper, Hempel concludes that the generalization of a simple statement, such as "all ravens are black" can be confirmed by another simple observation, such as that of a purple cow. The observation of a purple cow would, in Hempel's opinion, increase, even slightly, the probability that all ravens are black. Briefly summarizing his paradox, Professor Hempel notes that the statement "all ravens are black" is logically equivalent to the statement that "all non-black objects are not ravens" (this is a true logical equivalence). Therefore, finding a purple cow weakly confirms the statement that all ravens are black, because it confirms its logical equivalent that all non-black objects are not ravens."

Tags:nicod, confirmation, black, white, probabilities

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In this article, the writer discusses a resolution of the seeming contradiction between Matt. 5.23 and 10.35, one of which mandates family reconciliation and the other of which calls for family members to turn against each other. It is resolved in how Matthew articulates the relationship between God and humankind.

From the Paper
"At first glance Matt and seem irreconcilable. In the first verse Jesus says that individuals must reconcile themselves to their brothers and sisters before making an offering to God. Yet in the second Jesus explains that he has come to set sons against fathers and daughters against mothers. In other words the first verse seems to insist on family comity and the second seems to insist on family disunion. The two problems with seeing the contradiction have to with context on one hand and the overarching intent of the ..."

Tags:Matthew, God, humankind, family, Micah, family, salvation, Christian thought

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This essay takes a look into the life of Francois Rabelais and into his book "Gargantua and Pantagruel". Specifically, the focus is on the idea of the curse as mentioned in the book. The curse is that Christians are free and yet they are enslaved. Finally, the paper shows that through his book "Gargantua and Pantagruel", Rabelais examines the curse of Christianity, namely that the Christian has free will, but that the free will he or she is given is limited.

From the Paper
"The book contains the story of the birth and upbringing of a giant child, Gargantua, and illustrates the author's views on bad education (Medieval) and good education (Renaissance), and how an ideal humanist leader should behave. The character of the battling monk, Friar Jean, is introduced, with graphically detailed anatomical descriptions of his feats of holy combat."

Tags:book, curse, gargantua, one, pantagruel, rabelais