1. Socrates
The tendency to ferret out pleasure and meaning in ones life and avoid pain and uncertainty in order to actualize one's full potential and survive is the main driving force. ... In less then satisfactory conditions, such as a child who is raised in the ghetto with minimal income and harsh living conditions, a person will have different driving forces then those in "normal" conditions. ... This is also the main driving force in children, being young and unaware of what goes on in the real world, their driving force is survival and happiness, which is instinctual. ...
You see, I was primarily working with people who were severely mentally disturbed, and I felt that was dealing with an extremely powerful force within these people's minds. I saw that this force was making life difficult and miserable for these people, and I was trying to explain why. ... A: Actually, I distinguished two driving forces: the sexual drive and the death drive. ... I wanted to make people understand that sexuality is more than something that evokes with puberty and is solely expressed in the marital bed, but that it is present from the moment of birth, and that it is, thro...
My friend Nick, who shared the same adventurous interests as me, invited me to say in a lakeside cabin with him for a week in Chelan, Washington to which I graciously accepted, and before I knew it, we were touching down in Seattle and driving two hundred miles west into Central Washington. ... Just like Abbey, my natural instincts allowed me to see the powerful force of nature as beautiful even though it was the very force that was threatening my safety. ...
Aristophanes believes that love will; in fact, heal the wound in us that resulted from the splitting of the original man "he will restore us to our original nature, and by healing us, he will make us happy" (Aristophanes, p.30) In essence, Aristophanes defines love as the driving force that compels us to seek out such unification "Love does the best that can be done for the time being: he draws us towards what belongs to us" (Aristophanes, p.30). ...
There's an ongoing debate regarding the rights of animals. Animal rights seek to guarantee animals with a sense of entitlement. Some people tend to oppose animal rights stating that animals are inferior to human beings and should be used by to meet human needs. In this manner, animals are not exempt...
Natural Selection The definition of natural selection can be stated as: the process by which individuals" inherited needs and capabilities are basically intimately linked to resources available in their environment, giving those with greater fitness a better chance of survival and the ability to re...