Introduction… or Why „the Master”… is in Defiance

Introduction 1.1 Why Is Management Important?

his book contains the highlights of the RACE II project Integrated Communications Management (ICM), addressing the technologies and methods required for the management of Integrated Broadband Communication Networks a discipline which is referred to as Telecommunications Management Network (TMN). The book is intended for telecommunications students, researchers, developers and operators in searc...

Why Believe That There Is a God?

This article presents an argument for the existence of God, showing that the evident phenomena are best explained by supposing that a God causes them. The argument is based on the inductive force of four very evident general phenomena: that there is a physical Universe; that it is governed by very simple natural laws; that those laws are such as to lead to the existence of human bodies; and tha...

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Part IV Defiance in Groups

Defiance, Persuasion, or Conformity? The Argument in Plato's Apology and Crito

While the relation between the individual and the state belongs clearly to one of the most complex issues in Western political philosophy, the relation between the Socrates of the Apology and that of the Crito ranks, accordingly, as one of the most contentious problems in the entire Socratic scholarship. This is due to the fact that in the Apology (29 c–d) one is confronted with a defiant rebel...