... sacredness they realized through their understanding and dependency in their traditional physical connection to the land. The unity between people, nature, and the divine is a prominent theme of Japanese religion. The religious character of the family is also an important theme, considering the home is the center of religious devotion, and the family is the most important social and religious institution ... the family unit, then the religious character of the family is a necessary theme to provide a world view. Moreover, the family is typically the center of social unity in most cultur...

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... by the law, freedom is no more than a dulcet inclination. While the law itself is a kind of restriction the real meaning of freedom, from this aspect, is a freedom with regulations rather than absolute free choice. From the aspect of individual, every one want to express his own character, develop his own ability, and find out his own potency without being disturbed or forbidden by others ... every individual in a safe and order rhythm and thus lead to the wholly stabilization of the society. But it is not an easy thing even to confine people to a space in which his liberty is protected...

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... assist in making a transit towards sustainable environmental and human development. The theory of virtue ethics is Aristotle's teleological theory that focuses on the development of moral qualities and character of an individual, fostering worthwhile living and that right and good behavior become habits. It entails on achieving the midpoint of the character trade, referred to as "golden mean". The Earth Charter correlates with the theory ... and wealth equality amongst everyone in the society by eradicating poverty as a social, environmental and ethical imperatives. By ethics of charact...

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... images and videos they portray on the screen, a sense of sound through the background score that plays as the characters in the games perform implausible acts of heroism, and a sense of touch through the buttons and joystick on a controller that not only controls the actions of a character in the game, but also vibrates when one's character is under duress. While "our sight or vision ... presents us optimally with surfaces," "sound gives a perception of interiors as interiors without their being opened up" (Ong 122). Video games seamlessly meld the two senses through ... actual reality...

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... assist in making a transit towards sustainable environmental and human development. The theory of virtue ethics is Aristotle's teleological theory that focuses on the development of moral qualities and character of an individual, fostering worthwhile living and that right and good behavior become habits. It entails on achieving the midpoint of the character trade, referred to as "golden mean". The Earth Charter correlates with the theory ... and wealth equality amongst everyone in the society by eradicating poverty as a social, environmental and ethical imperatives. By ethics of charact...

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... has used, and the kinds of problem it has raised. All of these features of philosophical realism have analogies to distinctive features of the novel form, analogies which draw attention to the characteristic kind of correspondence between life and literature which has obtained in prose fiction since the novels of Defoe and Richardson. The greatness of Descartes was primarily one of method, of the thoroughness of his determination to accept nothing on trust whereby ... it really is." Realism can never fully offer up the world in all its complexity, its irreducible plenitude. Its verisimi...

• Word Count: 3498
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• Grade Level: Graduate