Achilles ' role as the hero of grief forms an ironic juxtaposition with the conventional view of Achilles as the hero of kleos ( glory, usually glory in war ).

From a philosophical point of view, what makes the brain special in comparison to other organs is that it forms the physical structure that generates the mind.

Charles Darwin proposed the theory of universal common descent through an evolutionary process in On the Origin of Species, twice stating the hypothesis that there was only one progenitor for all life forms and ending with " There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ".

Darwin's famous closing sentence describes the " grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one.

American " cultural anthropologists " focused on the ways people expressed their view of themselves and their world, especially in symbolic forms, such as art and myths.

This view entails the problem that it makes any moral criticism of the law impossible: if conformity with natural law forms a necessary condition for legal validity, all valid law must, by definition, count as morally just.

There is a general view that citizenship in ancient times was a simpler relation than modern forms of citizenship, although this view has come under scrutiny.

By his view, concepts ( and ideas in general ) are innate ideas that were instantiations of a transcendental world of pure forms that lay behind the veil of the physical world.

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Later, in the first volume of his Logical Investigations, the Prolegomena of Pure Logic, Husserl, while attacking the psychologistic point of view in logic and mathematics, also appears to reject much of his early work, although the forms of psychologism analysed and refuted in the Prolegomena did not apply directly to his Philosophy of Arithmetic.

Michael Wreen argued that “ the principal thing that distinguishes euthanasia from intentional killing simpliciter is the agent's motive: it must be a good motive insofar as the good of the person killed is concerned ”, a view mirrored by Heather Draper, who also spoke to the importance of motive, arguing that " the motive forms a crucial part of arguments for euthanasia, because it must be in the best interests of the person on the receiving end.

Many religious mythologies had a view of Earth as being a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts ( e. g. some Native American religions and various forms of shamanism ).

This enables the ontological view that energy is prima materia and matter is one of its forms.

A view sympathetic with this possibility holds that, precisely because some form is immanent in several physical objects, it must also transcend each of those physical objects ; in this way, the forms are " transcendant " only insofar as they are " immanent " in many physical objects.

( Nor, on this view, would there be a separate " world " or " realm " of forms that is distinct from the physical world, thus shirking much of the worry about where to locate a " universal realm ".

Behind its many varied forms apparently lies a uniform function, " a strong desire to reconcile the findings of modern natural science with a religious view that could restore man to a position of centrality and dignity in the universe.

Some commentators view genres as natural forms of literature.

In his view a preference is anything sought to be obtained or avoided ; all forms of benefit or harm caused to a being correspond directly with the satisfaction or frustration of one or more of its preferences.

From the psychohistorical view, this demonstrates that the earlier forms of childrearing coexist with later modes, even in the most advanced countries.

Likewise, some gay men view frotting or oral sex as maintaining their virginity, with anal penetration regarded as virginity loss, while other gay men consider frotting or oral sex to be their main forms of intercourse.

In the view of Melissa Farley and other anti-prostitution feminists, all forms of sex work, including stripping and performing in pornography, are simply different types of prostitution.

While later televisions were cable-ready with a standard converter built-in, the existence of premium television ( aka pay per view ) and the advent of digital cable have continued the need for various forms of these devices for cable television reception.

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

This was the final element of the foundation upon which the early folk music revivalists constructed their own view of Americanism.

This group took an extreme view that argued that all papal teachings were infallible and that papal infallibility was the foundation of the church's infallibility.

In the late 1980s, the Soviet government came under increased criticism, as did Leninist ideology ( which Gorbachev had attempted to preserve as the foundation for reform ), and members of the Soviet population were more outspoken in their view that the Soviet government had become a failure.

* Non-violence ( to be in soul consciousness rather than body consciousness ) is the foundation of right view, the condition of right knowledge and the kernel of right conduct.

Anēkāntavāda (" multiple points of view ") is a foundation of Jain philosophy.

The sociologist Regina Oboler examined the role of gender in the U. S. Pagan community, arguing that although the movement had been constant in its support for the equality of men and women ever since its foundation, there was still an essentialist view of gender engrained within it, with female deities being accorded traditional western feminine traits and male deities being similarly accorded what western society saw as masculine traits.

According to Albert Sturtevant, " far as the element Rata-is concerned, Bugge's hypothesis has no valid foundation in view of the fact that the Norse word Rata ( gen. form of Rati *) is used in

In October 1990 President Momoh set up a constitutional review commission to review the 1978 one-party constitution with a view to broadening the existing political process, guaranteeing fundamental human rights and the rule of law, and strengthening and consolidating the democratic foundation and structure of the nation.

This view was notably promoted by Abraham Lincoln, who considered the Declaration to be the foundation of his political philosophy, and argued that the Declaration is a statement of principles through which the United States Constitution should be interpreted.

For several years after his marriage Morris was absorbed in two connected occupations: the building and decoration of a house for himself and Jane, and the foundation of a firm of decorators who were also artists, with the view of reinstating decoration, down to its smallest details, as one of the fine arts.

It is one of the principal documents of the Second Vatican Council, indeed their very foundation in the view of one of the leading Council Fathers, Bishop Christopher Butler.

In this view, logic is the proper foundation of mathematics, and all mathematical statements are necessary logical truths.

With this view, the physical universe can thus be seen as the ultimate foundation of mathematics: it guided the evolution of the brain and later determined which questions this brain would find worthy of investigation.

Bhikkhu Bodhi, an American Buddhist monk, has written: " By assigning value and spiritual ideals to private subjectivity, the materialistic world view ... threatens to undermine any secure objective foundation for morality.

" Drawing from this foundation, First Ministers view this Accord as a covenant which will help to ensure that:

Solipsists may view their own pro-social behaviors as having a more solid foundation than the incoherent pro-sociality of other philosophies.

Objection to the use of parallel postulate and alternative view of proposition 29 have been a major problem in foundation of what is now called non-Euclidean geometry.

Such criticism of mercantilism — the view that a country's prosperity can be measured by its stock of bullion — helped to lay the foundation for classical economics, and was unusual at the time.

Sōka ) was integral to Makiguchi's view of " religion as being not separate from, but identical with, the actual life of individuals in society, so that the efforts to create values in mundane life obtained a religious foundation, peace and prosperity of a nation.

For him the foundation of ethics necessarily rested on the ideal end of social well-being, and keeping this end in view, he proceeded to trace its history at different times, the manner in which it shapes itself in the mind of each individual, and the way in which it can be developed and realized.

" I assume it as the foundation of all my view of the case, that boys at a public school never will learn to speak or pronounce French well, under any circumstances ", so it would be enough if they could " learn it grammatically as a dead language ".

The Götaland theory ( or " Westrogothian School ", Swedish Västgötaskolan ) is a local patriotic view which challenges established history and archaeology, and which claims that the foundation of Sweden occurred not ( as traditionally assumed ) in Eastern Sweden, but in the province of Westrogothia ( Västergötland ).

:* As ground level observation has limited view and more scope for distration, a raised viewing platform ( tower or walkway ) is " markedly superior " to ground or water level observation, and " the tower guard must be considered the foundation and most important part of the surveillance system ".

* Basic research is experimental or theoretical work undertaken primarily to acquire new knowledge of the underlying foundation of phenomena and observable facts, without any particular application or use in view.

Augustine ’ s later amillennial view laid the eschatological foundation for the Middle Ages which practically abandoned premillennialism.