Dictum Essays

I was worried that my study of medicine would consume all of my time, and consequently I would no longer be able to study another field I am passionate about: humanities. In this essay I am excited to discuss what I have discerned from Socrates’s dictum; “the unexamined life is not worth living”. I was first exposed to Socrates as a freshman during the humanities class I was taking, and his teachings made a considerable impact on my life. Many of my own outlooks towards life can be considered a consequence

Antigone, by Sophocles, is a drama belonging to the Greek theatre, which revolves around the central character Antigone, who wants her brother Polynieces to be given a decent burial and decides to revolt against Creon’s dictum. The play portrays in an accurate manner of the social situations that existed in the ancient Greece, and how the people reacted to it. The drama begins with the death of brothers, Eteocles and Polynieces, who kill each other for the throne. By this act, Creon decides to give

Doctors enter medicine out of desire to save lives, not end them. Euthanasia goes against the natural course of life. Physician assisted suicide is when the physician gives the lethal means to the patient for him or her to take whenever they desire to end their lives and commit suicide. Euthanasia is when the doctors take the active role in killing the patient, which often involves injecting the patient with lethal ____________________________________ ___________________________________ substances

is Faber afraid of Montag? 8. 1. Cartographer – a person who makes maps The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. 2. Dictum – saying There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! 3. Saccharine – sugary He's a regular peppermint stick now, all sugar-crystal and saccharine when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that every worshipper

In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, censorship has greatly affected the society. The censorship makes everyone in this society the same, they are limited to what they can do for entertainment, like running over animals or talking to the ‘family’. This is also a major reason for Montag’s rebellion in society, eventually, someone will get bored of continuously doing the same thing or get curious of what a book was like but the censorship prevents them from doing that. In the book, it

baseball hitting the window and causing it to shatter. According to him, the baseball did not cause the window to shatter, its atoms did, because they have the causal powers and the baseball does not (Merricks, p. 61). Merricks uses the Alexander's dictum “to be real is to have causal powers” (p. 65), to make his argument that since the baseball itself has no causal powers, there is no good reason to believe it exists (p. 73). In his paper, Merricks first explains the causal principle; then, he defends

continue to read. Caldicott then opens and closes her writing with excoriating President George Bush and Vice President Dick Chaney. Caldicott’s opening statement accuses the administration for lulling the public “into believing their oft-repeated dictums” concerning nuclear energy. Caldicott later criticizes Vice President Dick Chaney for his secret meetings with Enron and questions whether or not “legal and ethical guidelines were crossed.” Such negative elucidation of an administration well-known

In Osawatomie, Kansas on August 31, 1910, President Theodore Roosevelt gave his Conservation As A National Duty Speech. Roosevelt gave this speech to consider the question of the conservation and use of the great fundamental sources of wealth of this Nation. This is the first time in the Untied States’ history the chief executive officers of the States separately, and of the States together forming the Nation, have met to consider this. With the governors come men from each State chosen for their

The Role of Censorship What if the government took over control? Since the government exercises censorship, the citizens have a state of mind thinking they are happy. Censorship plays a major role in Fahrenheit 451. Censorship is the government excluding or hides information from the citizens. Bradbury portrays a message of allowing the government to take control of what the citizens do and not do. Their government says all thought shouldn’t be allowed and books burned. Since the government has

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a dystopian novel about a man named Montag who is a firefighter but is setting fires; not putting them out. Society in this novel is very closed off and the government has all control over what everyone knows and does, including books. Montag’s job is to burn the books and homes of people who have them. Montag enjoys what he does at the start of the book. Montag thinks what he was doing was good for society. When authors use the genre dystopia to warn their readers

due to complaints by parents of the children who attend these schools and libraries. In the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, books are censored and leads the people to a state of dystopia. “It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can

In the futuristic novel, Fahrenheit 451, there are several examples of formal elements such as character, setting, plot, and theme. In this novel, owning and reading books is illegal. If books are found, they are burned and their owner is arrested. Like the case with the Old Woman, if the owner refuses, he or she often dies, burning along with them. While Fahrenheit 451 does not provide a single, straightforward explanation as to why books are banned; it suggests that several factors could combine

In the article entitled ‘Determining the Ratio Decidendi of the Case’ by Arthur L. Goodhart, I underwent a roller coaster-like journey on exploring the science behind the nature of a precedent in English law. Goodhart started with the attempt to explain the full meaning of ratio decidendi in the simplest terms. He referred to Sir John Salmond’s definition in which I have interpreted ratio decidendi as the principle of law that is found in a court decision and possesses the authority to be binding

Georg Hegel was a great political philosopher and one of the creators of the German idealism. He is considered one of the last great philosophers of modern time. His work was a revolution of human development. Georg Hegel took all of knowledge as his domain and made original attributions to the understanding of history, law, logic, art, religion, and philosophy. Born on August 27, 1770, in Stuttgart, Germany. He was the eldest of three children born to Georg Ludwig, who worked for the civil service

Aphorism, adage, dictum, moral, life lesson: in other terms, things of which this paper will be of. This is a paper about a tale of true sacrifice and courage. Many stories have elaborate life lessons, and Homer’s epic tale The Odyssey is no exception. This paper will amalgamate the ones felt to be most important. The first very important life lesson I found in the land of the lotus eaters; it being if you abstain from poor choices you will prosper greatly. This is demonstrated in the Odyssey. In

Manhattan tycoon with a personality larger than life explodes onto the American political scene with a populist message that the system is unfair to the little guy, and that the wealthy corporations and their beholding politicians are in control of America. He draws all the oxygen from his adversaries’ campaigns. He confuses the media, mystifies the establishment and seems to be an inexorable force. And he claims to be the only way out for America’s dismal position on the world stage. This big-mouthed;

“It was a pleasure to burn” (Bradbury 1). Fahrenheit 451 is about a firemen Guy Montag, who burns books, but starts questioning who books are being burned. Guy has a hard time getting the answers he wants, and he is soon to find out the world is not how he thought it was. Most people use technology today, just like the people in Ray Bradbury`s book Fahrenheit 451. In the book Fahrenheit 451 there are a lot of similarities in the book compared to today, such as technology, government overpower, and

Self-imposed censorship is killing society. Specifically, Montag’s society. In the story Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character Guy Montag lives in a place where they burn books to prevent citizens from forming their own opinions, and keeping them ignorant and supposedly “happy.” So what is Bradbury attempting to teach the reader about self-imposed censorship? He is aiming to teach the reader the dangers of censorship and how it leads to limiting the options people have to choose between

According to this article, Betty Smithey asphyxiated a 15-month old toddler in parallel to mental illness on New Year’s Day in 1963. One reason approving Smithey’s release could be the mental illness dictums that may have been discarded in Smithey’s conviction. Another reason approving Smithey’s clemency could be the recidivism statistics and the danger potential tests (i.e. she appeases the dissipated recidivism and crime association delineated by the

In Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the most significant systemic issue is censorship and more specifically, the censorship of free thought. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradury, the novel takes place in a dystopian world. The protagonist in the novel is a fireman named Guy Montag. The firemen in Fahrenheit 451 aren’t like the modern firemen we know; they burn books, which are seen to make people develop opinions and free thought. A new girl moves in next door to Montag, named Clarisse McClellan, who