Aristotle vs Maslow vs Nike

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write,
if he is to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
This is the need we may call self-actualization ... It refers to man's
desire for fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become
actually in what he is potentially: to become everything that one
is capable of becoming ..."


I believe Maslow’s self-actualization theory and Aristotle “Good Life” theory had common ground! Aristotle said that genuine happiness lies in actions that lead to virtue. Therefore, we are naturally attracted to preferences for engaging in pleasant activities. We like to do what makes us happy. Maslow’s theory falls along the same line; a man is most happy when he is doing all he can to become all he can.

According to human nature, one can attain happiness by buying a product. Like a car or house or something of great value. On the other hand, this happiness is not long- term without other attributes. Man will feel for a while that he is experiencing happiness after buying a product, but it is just an illusion.

I think that advertising alone has to sell products and make people feel that they will reach complete happiness. That is how they make their money

Times Vs. Sullivan

This case was the one that established the standards befor press reports could be considered defamation and libel. This case also allowed free reporting of the civil rights campaign in the south.

Before this case was solved, there were millions of libel actions against a number of different news organizations. After the New York Times prevailed in this case, news organizations were free to report mant civil rights infringements.

In the old rule, the constitution extended no protection to false statements. Te New rule states that actual malice must be present. Actual Malice is having knowledge that the information that you (the reporter)are releasing is false. or to publish with reckless disregard of whether the information that is being reported is false or not. The Reporter must entertain actual doublt as to the statements truth!

Sedition Acts 2

The sedition acts became a law in 1798. This act made it illegal to "write, print, utter or publish... any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the Gov..." (58). The law today is milder. I'm sure people like David Horsee would be in jail for life if he lived around the 18th century. I don't have the space to list current statements that would be prosecuted under this law. If people were still serving jail time, the jails would run out of space.

Due Process

"Due process means that no person can be subject to an individualized proceeding in which he or she stands to lose one of the protected interests – in the context of administrative law, either property or liberty – without sufficient procedures to ensure that the governmental action is fundamentally fair."


The US Constitution guarantees that no person shall be deprived of Life, Liberty, or property, without due process of Law. This concept places an important obligation upon every branch of government.


Walter Burgwyn Jones (October 16, 1888 - August 1, 1963) was a judge from Alabama. Jones served in the Alabama state legislature from 1919 to 1920. He was then a circuit court judge until 1935. Jones was a presiding judge from 1935 to 1963. In the 1956 Presidential election, faithless elector W. F. Turner cast his vote for Jones, who was a circuit court judge in Turner's home town, for President of the United States and Herman E. Talmadge for Vice President, … Jones wrote the book Alabama Loss Due to Reconstruction. He wrote a book on pleadings (In which he overruled in one of his cases) that Embry used in an important case.

T. Eric Embry was a trial lawyer represented the New York Times in NY Times Company v. Sullivan.