Idea

Plato and Locke's Views on an Innate Idea        What is an innate idea?  This can be defined as some idea or mental representation that is produced by outside perception or created anew by our imagination. It exists in the mind in virtue of the nature of the human mind.  According to Plato most if not all of our knowledge is innate. However, John Locke feels that we do not have any innate ideas.  Then the question arises of who is right or are they both wrong

Nowadays, society promotes an idea that everybody should think critically and be innovative. This new idea let many people get confused and wonder whether we humans have the ability to actually be able to control our mind. It seems like we did because we each has unique ideas. While as a matter of fact, we don’t. We don’t have the control of our own mind due to our instinct of imitation and being easily controlled by the social trend. In Blackmore’s essay “ Strange Creatures”, she claims that people

Idea Generation: The development of a product will start with the concept. It is necessary to employ strong analyses to identify current market trends and available solutions, understand customer behavior and needs, and identify areas of opportunity. This information will help keep ideas focused and relevant. Some tools that can help this analysis include a basis internal and external SWOT analysis, study of market and customer trends, competitor analysis, focus groups, sales staff and other employees

harmony, that they would always try and one-up each other, and people would always end up on top somehow. I believe these ideals apply more strongly to revolutions, as well as human nature in general, than Locke’s. Firstly, it is apparent that Hobbes’s ideas apply strongly to the French Revolution. In the French Revolution in 1789, people were outraged at their monarch. There were riots, there were attacks on prisons, there were beheadings of government officials. But before that, the people had tried

and forced. There comes the debate and thought of freedom; are you free? Free from sadness, anger, evil, terrible weather; what is free? There are three messages from the intellectually challenging movie, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; the idea of freedom, Platonic allegory of the cave, and

called, In Defense of Dangerous Ideas, where he argues that dangerous ideas are only considered to be dangerous to those who believe in the label society has given them. Pinker defines "dangerous ideas" as being, "ideas that are denounced not because they are self-evidently false, nor because they advocate harmful action, but because they are thought to corrode the prevailing moral order." Pinker uses this essay to attempt to effectively argue that dangerous ideas are only that if people allow them

When comparing Tao-te Ching to The Prince there are numerous differences. The authors of these two documents had almost completely opposite ideas of how a ruler should behave and how a government should be run. One believed that the ruler could accomplish the most by doing the least; the other believed that by controlling how the public perceived a ruler was what would make him a success or a failure. Machiavelli believed that to rule the prince must do things that would win approval with his

Individual report How creativity has been applied to a business idea or problem To make a business grow and achieve productive and efficient results you need to invoke creativity which has always been an essential business skill. Since long time creativity has been applied to a business world as companies seek to use it in all parts of the organization to make it gain more profits and to be exceptional from others. A business person has to find unique solutions every day and he has to know

moment I see myself focusing much more on paraphrasing and not committing plagiarism than the quality of the ideas that I am writing. However, I have noted that most of my ideas and opinions are probably based on somebody else’s work I might have read before. Therefore, is it not plagiarism? In the article “Intertextuality and the Discourse Community,” James E. Porter challenges the idea of what plagiarism truly is. He states that it is almost impossible to write without committing some sort of plagiarism

In the book Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson, he shows his readers that great ideas come from ordinary involvement and he uses the history of inventions/innovations to back up his theories. Steven Johnson’s writing is meant to explain how to achieve good ideas and what we can do to advance the ingenuity of our environment. Throughout this piece of work, Johnson illustrates seven theories of innovation of how inventions happen, these consist of; The Adjacent Possible, Liquid Networks,