Week 4 Assignment Human Freedom Kelley Morris Strayer University Soc. 100 Dr. K 1-28-2012 For this assignment I have chosen to discuss the social issue of human freedom. My definition of human freedom is deciding for yourself what is right and wrong‚ moral and unmoral and not because or the influence of another individual. In an article by G.C. Berkouwer‚ freedom is defined by being free from all restrictions‚ but throws no light at all on the nature of human freedom. Berkouwer goes
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Philosophy of the Human Nature In Aristotle’s Nicomacheon Ethics Book he uses his function argument as grounds for his claim that the human function is the activity of the soul in accordance with excellence or virtue. I lay out the arguments that make up Aristotle’s conclusion in order to pinpoint exactly which of Aristotle’s statement I believe is false. (1) Aristotle first asserts that happiness is an ultimate good that is both complete and self-sufficient. (2) The ultimate good for a thing
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1. In what present day and continent was "Lucy" discovered? The most famous of these fossils‚ nicknamed Lucy‚ was found in 1974 near Hadar‚ Ethiopia (Africa continent). 2. Who discovered the fossil remains that became known as "Lucy"? Donald Johanson‚ an American anthropologist and curator at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and his graduate student Tom Gray. 3. What other famous anthropologist/paleontologist got into a dispute with the team that discovered "Lucy”? What was the argument
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Writing Assignment One--Do primates posses culture? I think that if culture is defined as learned behavior‚ than it is reasonable to say that primates posses a form of culture. Primates have been observed making tools to aid in collecting food and developing communication system‚ both of which are learned behaviors. It is common in monkeys‚ apes and humans that behavior and social organization aren’t necessarily programmed into the genes. There have been several cases where an entire troop has
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History is the study of the human past. The past has left many traditions‚ folk tales‚ and works of art‚ archaeological objects‚ and books and written records of our accomplishments. Historians have been recording the events of history since the Phoenicians in Africa invented the first alphabet. For instance‚ until the advent of Black History Month‚ our school children learned all of their black history when they studied the plight of slavery in the south prior to the Civil War. Very little truth
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Studying the bonobo has given researchers much insight into our closest living relative. Unfortunately‚ according to a number of different journal articles‚ the bonobo is on the verge of extinction. However‚ in order to understand the conservation issues associated with the bonobo‚ we must first be able to classify the animal with respect to its families and groups. The bonobo is classified according to the taxonomic hierarchy. Bonobos belong to the superfamily Hominoidea that includes apes and
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The question shakes us all to our very souls. For humans to consider the cloning of one another forces them all to question the very concepts of right and wrong that make them all human. The cloning of any species‚ whether they be human or non-human‚ is ethically and morally wrong. Scientists and ethicists alike have debated the implications of human and non-human cloning extensively since 1997 when scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland produced Dolly. No direct conclusions have been drawn
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What does it mean to be human? There are many characteristics that set humans apart from the rest of the species in the world and many qualities which others do not have. A human is one who belongs to the group of primates‚ has great mental development with emotions‚ and interacts with their society. Some of the main things that distinguish humans from other species is their body form‚ spiritualism and their use of tools. To be human‚ one must have similar bodies and physical form to those of
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Arturo Perez 11/05/2013 Anthropology Craig Stanford wrote an article titled “Got Culture” and the issues addressed in this article are that our closest relatives who are the Chimpanzees share a culture just as us humans do. But many people in the world do not believe in such theories they believe that culture is specific to humans only and that there is no way that a Chimp can hold such “symbolic relationships” as us humans do everyday (Stanford‚ 2002.) Throughout the article Stanford points
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Introduction: Bipedalism and the change of dentition have been landmarks for evolution of the early hominins that once wandered our planet up to three million years ago (Shook‚ 2015). One of the specific species that has exhibited bipedalism and changes within their skeletal structure is Australopithecus africanus‚ that some may recognize better as the Taung Child (Barak). Living from 3 to 2.5 million years ago‚ this species has been known to have developing dentition and obligate bipedalism
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