...that Phil Knight abided by when he was founding Nike (“Philip H. Knight”). You always have to play by the rules when doing anything but being ferocious and aggressive is another thing. Phil Knight’s ferociousness has paid off in the long run. Designing Nike, the world’s number one athletic-shoe company, Phil Knight was not just an entrepreneur but also clever in the way that he advertised his products. Philip Hampson Knight, or Phil Knight, was born on February 24, 1938, in Portland, Oregon. He is the son of Lota Hatfield Knight and William W. Knight. Growing up, Phil Knight had two sisters. There names were Joanne and Jeanne Knight (“Phil Knight Biography”). Phil Knight attended...
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...Phil Jackson Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success By Joseph Osorio 11/29/14 Summary of Life Philip Douglas Jackson more commonly known as Phil Jackson has been considered to be one of the best coaches in NBA history. His approach and technique in coaching teams has not only caught the attention of NBA viewers but also of many leaders. As the head coach of the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson has won a total of 11 NBA world championships, surpassing the previous record of nine NBA world champions. His simplistic but effective approach is described in his book “11 Rings The Soul of Success.” Here he describes the struggle and the challenges he faced not only as a player but also as a coach and leader of different characters and unique teams. His holistic approach on making the team one as a whole has gained him many followers but also many critics. Phil Jackson was born on September 17, 1945 in the small town of Deer Lodge, Montana. Born to the son of two minister of God, Phil Jackson was raised in a conservative home where many things were not allowed. But during his early years in high school there was one thing that he could not let go, his passion for the beautiful game of basketball was induced. Phil Jackson began playing basketball at Williston, North Dakota where he led the team to two state titles. Jackson later attended the University of North Dakota and also played here for several years, before being drafted in 1967 in the second round by the New...
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...I chose to read Sacred Hoops: spiritual lesson of the hardwood, By: phil jackson. I read this because I think Phil jackson is one of the best Basketball coaches in the history of basketball. He was the coach of Chicago Bulls, he took the bulls to win 6 championships and he also took the LA Lakers to win 3 consecutive titles. Phil Jackson was a spiritual man, he practices Native American spirituals. He developed a new approach to leadership based on freedom, authenticity, and selfless teamwork. He wrote this book to show players and other coaches on how to make the players act with a clear mind, not thinking, just doing; to respect the enemy and be aggressive without anger or violence; to live in the moment and stay calmly focused on the game....
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...Psychologist Phil McGraw starts his show every day saying, "This is going to be a changing day in your life.’’Dr. Phil wakes up every day at seven in the morning without a alarm. His plan for the day is to help people make their life better than the day before. If he does ever have a bad you would not be able to notice. It’s hard to make Phil mad but it does happen. He would not be where he wanted to be without his good friend Oprah. The professional Phil McGraw was born September 1,1950 in Oklahoma. As a young boy in high school he loved to play football. Phil received a scholarship from the university of Tulsa. He was not big on where he was playing so decided to transfer to the midwestern university. His life in other people’s eyes seemed to be...
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...A principle is commonly some existing factor that is a point of an argument. Philosophy has to do with reason this leads on to prove. A principle is simply a starting point to begin reasoning. Metaphysics is the question of the being. This is founded that there is an experience, for example the fact that there is some illusion to the proposition. Although the problem is that the being does not state the source of the being. The being remains somewhat in a sort of open space and this does not answer the possibility of resolution. Even if the question is reworded the problem still remains as to the source of the being. The principal issue with morals is the distinction of a society of what is considered morally correct. Moral issues involve a difference of belief and it should not be a matter of preference. Some moral issues can involve an experience or a feeling. Another moral issue is stated in the situation that people are currently in this leads to another moral issue which could lead to actions. Actions can either help or harm themselves or others. Social issues can arise with the problem of the validity of one set of social values compared to another. There are several problems with social philosophy but it is commonly broken down to other issues. For example, who states who gets what in forms of welfare or who desires a certain grant. There are many principles that form from basic principles in essence to questions as examples. Society philosophy can...
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...Emma Grace Philosophy 1000 5 July 2012 The Four Virtues of the Republic In the Republic, Plato sets up a framework to help us establish what the four virtues are, and their relationship between them to both the city and the soul. According to Plato, the four virtues are wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. There are three classes within the city: guardians, auxiliaries, and artisans; and three parts within the soul include intellect, high-spirited, and appetitive. By understanding the different classes of the city or parts of the soul, one will be able to appreciate how the virtues attribute to each one specifically. Book II of the Republic opens with Plato’s two brothers, both who want to know which is the better life to live: the just or the unjust. First, Socrates wants to know, “what justice and injustice are and what power each itself has when it’s by itself in the soul” (Cahn 130). One needs to understand what the soul is before one can talk about virtue because the relationship between the soul and virtue is excellence. This sets up the foundation that the structure of the soul and the city are similar in relation to the four virtues. In order for Socrates to accomplish this, he needs to examine the larger one first, the city, representing the ontological. Then, he is going to examine the smaller one, the soul, representing the epistemological. The establishment of each of these will display how the two mirror off one another, allowing the relationship between...
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...In the Wrongness and Criminalization reading by Victor Tadros, Tadros seeks to make claims and explain the importance of the relationship of moral wrongness and the appropriate content of the criminal law. He explains how harm is central to the justification of criminalization as conduct may be wrong in virtue of it being harmful and the characteristic of the conduct provides reason to criminalize it but that view does leave open places of exception. Tadros uses the example that it may be wrong to write racist books in private but because it doesn’t cause harm to anyone it cannot be criminalized. Tadros suggests that the mere fact that the conduct is wrong provides us with no reason at all to criminalize it. Tadros takes his essay to explain and reflect on the following three principals: 1) The Wrongness Justification 2) The Strong Wrongness Constraint and 3) The Weak Wrongness Constraint. The Wrongness Justification is always a reason in favor of criminalization of some conduct that the conduct is wrong. The strong wrongness constraint is permissible to criminalize some conduct only if that conduct is wrong independently of its being criminalized. The weak wrongness constraint is permissible to criminalize some conduct only if that conduct is wrong either independently of its being criminalized or as a result of its being criminalized. The Wrongness Justification is false if there are some things that are wrong that there is no reason to criminalize. Philosophers Duff and...
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...A hairy ingrown toenail with growing fungus, this sounds absolutely disgusting right? I doubt anyone wants to watch or see anything to do with an ingrown toenail with fungus because it is gross, disgusting and scary to look at. So why do people enjoy horror movies so much? It is the same kind of concept, something scares and disgusts us, but when it comes to horror films, shows, and etc. we find it to be pleasurable at the same time. Noël Carroll believes that the thing that attracts us to unpleasant feelings, like being scared and disgusted, is due to the monster. The monster is why there is a paradox of horror. Humans are extremely curious beings of life. Doctor Who season 4 episode 11, “Midnight”, demonstrates Carroll’s philosophy behind why people enjoy horror. “Midnight” starts off with the Doctor trying to convince his partner in crime to join him on a visit to a waterfall made of sapphires, which is located on the planet called Midnight, but she refuses, and the Doctor gets on the Crusader Tour Bus with seven strangers. On his way to Midnight Palace, the bus stops due to “engine” problems; however the Doctor quickly figures out that the Crusader Tour Bus is in perfect condition. The mechanic seems to see an odd shadow that appears to be running toward them, but the driver says its nothing and that help is on the way, reassuring the passengers and the bus attendant that everything will be fine. Suddenly, a random but constant knocking begins. The plot has finally come...
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...On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit." (John 20:19-21) "One In The Spirit Cyber Church" Ah, breathe!That's exactly what Jesus did directly onto His disciples- Jesus breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit." What an empowering experience for them, as they were given God's Spirit to put into action. They had His Spirit to help others, and to also help themselves. There is power and healing in God's breath! We can tap into this quite easily, and as often as necessary. It's out there, and it's free! (Isn't that good news?) Our Spiritual energy is simply a breath away. In her sermon, The Gospel of the Holy Spirit, the famous preacher, Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor, wrote the following: "Did you know the word 'conspire' means to breathe together? Take a breath. Now blow it out again. There! You have just launched a conspiracy. You can hear the word 'spirit' in there too - to conspire - to be filled with the same spirit, to be enlivened by the same wind. That is why the word appeals to me. What happens between us when we come together to worship God is that...
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...Symbolism of Movies Parallels of Star Trek and World Religions Live long and prosper The new star trek is a long journey mainly on the focus of James Kirk and Spok. In the beginning they start out as opposites and in the end they end up as friends. Typical happy ending I know, but the interesting part is that I hope to show the links between Star Trek and World Religions, which I think are both good subjects to explore and correlate. Buddhism, compassion, the middle way, logic instead of belief, going with the flow Spock is buddhism Hinduism vegas attman brahmin, James Kirk being part of a bigger Atman James Kirk is Hinduism at the end when the Romulans whom tried to destroy earth and destroyed the Vulcan planet we at their perril. Being the last ones of their kind about to be destroyed and suffer death, as a way to repair the relationship and “show compassion” Captain James Kirk offers to save them in the name of peace. This shows Taoism repairing relationships as well as ying and yang. One must be ying and not just yang for all to work. Had the Chinese leaders acted with more compassion or even with more yang relationships can be restored and flow. Annica Annatta Every part has a role, possibly equal and as important. Find the link. Spoc always being logical, part human part vulcan, showing no emotion. His planet was destroyed by Romulans and showed no feedback, just like a robot. As his emotions came back he mentions his anger and how he...
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...Module 11 Questions 1. Explain the humorous but meaningful and important phrase of Mill: “It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied”. * Mill responded by describing a different theory of happiness. Human beings have abilities more elevated than the animal appetites. You cannot measure pleasures on quantity alone, but must include quality. Since Mill has come down on the side of Socrates instead of the fool, he has separated mental pleasures, which he called “higher” pleasures, from physical pleasures, which he implies are “lower” pleasures. 2. Why does Gustafson think utilitarianism might be the ethical approach most suited for business? * Gustafson thinks utilitarianism might be the ethical approach most suited for business because it is “outcome-oriented.” It is a goal that brings about happiness and social benefit. Utilitarianism when tied to business has a method of “making decisions which are essentially expedient and concerned with making the most money possible.” 3. Now, look at the example given on pp. 80-81 - embellishing the expense report. After applying the 7 considerations criteria to help calculate how much pleasure and pain will result in the decision to cheat on the report, it is not until the final criterion that other people, the company, and society, are considered in the equation. Will cheating harm anyone else? It seems for Bentham that the act itself is unimportant...
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...Is Friedman right to refer to shareholders as owners and employers? Isn’t it odd to refer to corporate expenditures as “taxing and spending?” What do you think of Friedman's "democracy argument" against corporate social responsibility? Instrumental managing for stakeholders means treating them, as the word implies, as “instruments” or “tools” to accomplish the genuine task of corporations: shareholder profits. As tools, managers need to take care of them for them to work well, as a carpenter knows that she must take good care of her hammer, saw, etc. in order for them to work well. The reason why, however, is not because care for the tools themselves has intrinsic value. Instead, the tools are a mere means to an end. Freeman frequently invokes instrumental reasons for managing for stakeholders. He also, at times, clearly supports the normative managing for stakeholders approach. For example, the idea that in managing for stakeholders managers should avoid tradeoffs is clearly not simply about shareholder profits. Friedman, Freeman, and Boatright all defend their particular view on the moral responsibility of managers by reference to what they believe is central to the functioning of capitalist economies. Do they fundamentally disagree about the nature of capitalism? Most interestingly (and controversially) Boatright argues that managing for shareholders is the best way to serve the interests of stakeholders, including employees. How can managing for shareholders...
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...“The unexamined life is not worth living” is a phrase that I have heard before but never gave it much thought until this assignment. In order to really understand it, I had to take a step back and really look at each part of the statement. Ultimately what I understand from this is that a life in which you don’t “stop to smell the roses” as they say is not worth going through. Life is about questioning things and learning new things as you go along. Life is not meant to be coasted through on the way to the end. I feel that this phrase is about looking at every aspect of one’s life and exploring it more deeply, not just experiencing it and then moving on. I agree with this statement very much. After thinking about it for a while I started thinking about my own life and where I have and have not done this. There are many times in my life where I do something or complete a task and then just move on. I never stop to think about why I am doing something and how what I just did could help me live a more fulfilling life. In my normal day to day life I just go to work and school and then come home not giving a second thought as to what is actually going on. Sometimes I feel like I am just floating through life and not really paying attention to it as it is happening all around me. This is something that kind of struck me when it comes to school. I have always looked at school as a means to an end, as something I just needed to get through. But as I sit here and think about my...
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...Zhiwei Qi Phil105-942 Prof. Daniel Touey 2015-2-15 Week 6 In the article "On the Nonexistent", Gorgias introduces three concepts:1. Nothing exists;2.Even if something exists, nothing can know what it is; 3.Even if something can be known about it, it cannot explain or communicate to other men. These three concepts are the main points of the article. There concepts seem to be logical, practical and even inevitable. However, I have different opinion with Gorgias. The first argument is talking about the fact that nothing exists. Gorgias uses several examples from different sides to prove there is nothing exists. I don't agree with this conclusion. Here is an assumption I made. Suppose there are a person and a tree. The person is blind immediately when he sees the tree one eye. According to the Gorgias's argument, being is generated, so the tree is a being and exist. The person is blind forever so what he can see is the perpetual darkness. The image in the blind person's mind is all about the tree he saw just now. In this case, because the blind person cannot see anything anymore, so he cannot see the changes of the tree. The tree is always green in his mind and the tree will never grow or die .It just stand there forever. The tree for him is eternal. The tree is generate in the real world and eternal in the blind person 's mind. But they cannot happen at the same time eternal and generated. They are mutually exclusive of each other. Gorgias concludes...
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...Abortion When I was growing up, my mother told me the truth that many years ago she wouldn’t give birth to me if she had made her decision. My family back then was not very poor, but my parents already had my older brother and sister. In the late of 1980s, the government in my country advised that every family should only have two children. Parents who had the third child would be fined with higher taxes. Therefore, my father suggested that she should have an abortion because my family couldn’t afford the fine. My life at that time was in great danger. It all depended on my mother’s decision. And she decided to keep me. Abortion has been an intensely debated issue in the United States today. It is very difficult to find someone who doesn't have an opinion about abortion, and probably a strong opinion at that. There are usually two sides of every issue: the pros and cons. There are many opinions on this topic, however, a good place to start is whether or not law has the authority to rule over morality and whether the laws that we have now bring enough attention to the moral value of abortion. Along with these concepts abortion can also be viewed through the eyes of the utilitarian approach to ethics which focuses on both pleasure and pain and the ability to maximize pleasure over pain. On the other hand, Libertarian considers abortion issue is a necessary thing when we need to protect human freedom. A fundamental utilitarian makes a judgment according to how much general well...
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