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...
All life is connected by the need to pass on genes. Some organisms do this asexually, but many reproduce sexually. Jerry Johnson was looking for a species of lizard with a very strange reproductive strategy. This species consists of only females. Their offspring are exact copies of themselves. He wo...
Today I"m going to talk to you for 5-7 minutes. If I talked for 10 minutes would you consider that greed? How much is enough? Greed is a selfish desire for more than one needs or deserves. It has made honest men murderers and countries with rich and valuable resources into the poorest countries in t...
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. ...
The solution that Robinson endeavors to force the reader to uncover in his narrative poetry is that people are essentially social creatures and that "no man is an island."" ... This is actually the sole driving force of Cory: he wants to be society's picture of the perfect man. ...
Humanities, art, style, genius, culture, bourgeois what do each of these words mean? They all tie in to each other, in that they are all part of the human experience. In this essay I will define each of these terms, and show what they mean to me personally. Webster's Dictionary defines the term...
Myths have existed since ancient time and they tend to represent the culture that they came from so we can get to know those cultures even when we didn't live in them. Hesiod is one of the earliest and primary Greek Poet and a major source for Greek mythology. During his poem of the Creation, it rev...
By helping employees create a good concept about themselves, they will also develop a good attitude towards the company; therefore, driving them to naturally want to increase their productivity. ... Human beings are the one unpredictable complexity in every company, and you can't eliminate that complexity by forcing people to become more like one another. ...
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...
A great number of people would argue that there are very few things, which our American society holds dear. However, after the events on September eleventh just over a year ago, it became abundantly clear that the one thing we revere the most is our freedom and ability to choose in a democratically...
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...
