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Comparative Views of G.K. Chesterton and Sigmund Freud

science fiction, the reality is that the problem of labeling and drugging children in the world is growing. Of course, Freud wrote...

Western Civilization Historical Periods

was an incredibly powerful and influential time in mankinds history and in the development of Western civilization. Prior to the R...

Period of Enlightenment

life, whereas before there was no tolerance of any other culture or lifestyle other than that of the Euro-centric Christian model....

Questions and Answers Relating to Feminism

twenty-first century women have today. The matriarch after all has played a very different role in society over the past centuries...

Seventeenth Century Influence on the Eighteenth Century

speeches in his position of Secretary of the Paris Academy of Sciences, in which he did a great deal to enhance both the cultural ...

Jacques Abbadie and the Enlightenment Influence

light that does not deceive us" (Whelan, 2002, p. 1). This "natural light," in his estimation enables human beings to arrive at "...

Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution

the flow of information. Prior to the effects of the printing press, it was relatively easy for the Church to suppress books and w...

Voltaire's Candide and its Criticism of the Ancient Regime

exaggeration. Voltaire (1947) is in fact sarcastic and while the author is indirect in the way in which he writes, it seems that t...

Women Viewed During the Enlightenment Era

nature. De Gouges (2003) looks at the same natural world and challenges Enlightenment philosophers to give her an example in natur...

Questioning the Past in Literature of the Enlightenment

It seems ludicrous to picture a womans toilette as dangerous, yet the humor, in part, derives from the fact that men of this era a...

Voltaire's Candide and Literature of the Enlightenment

it from a cavalry captain," etc. (Voltaire, 1995, p. 9). This "genealogy," also subtly parodies the numerous "beget" clauses of t...

Text Analysis of 'Evil in Modern Thought An Alternative History of Philosophy' by Susan Neiman

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...

An Article on Knowledge and the Gnostics

In seven pages this paper discusses the Gnostics and the enlightenment of knowledge it embraced. Nine sources are cited in the bi...

Reflections of Society in Eighteenth Century Art, Music, and Literature

This paper examines the ways in which Eighteenth Century society is reflected in the art, music, and literature of the period, kno...

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 1779 Play Nathan the Wise

realizing that she is adopted and Christian. This conversation occurs as Nathan is trying to thank him for his actions toward his...

Hypocritical Title of the 'Scottish Enlightenment'

In 5 pages this paper argues that the so-called Scottish Enlightenment was neither Scottish nor particularly enlightened with Ferg...

Comparative Analysis of the Concepts of Voltaire and Kant

the society has been "dumbed down." It does seem true that the masses rarely think for themselves. They vote by sound bite and for...

Kant's 'Enlightenment' and Freedom of Speech

freedom of speech as well as to be able to use reason publicly in all matters without fear of retribution, is very important. It i...

Religion and Philosophical Concepts

Indeed, it seems that within the context of philosophy, there is a wrestling with religious thought, because it is from the rejec...

England's Model Government and the Enlightenment

a very different civil war, which ended in liberty. It was this event alone that may be seen as most significant by Voltaire. He...

French Enlightenment and Deism

to have this freedom of religion; when ones religious practices are not allowed by choice but are instead dictated by an omnipoten...

Europe's Disenchantment Period

In a paper of fifteen pages an examination of European history includes the Middle Ages, Baroque period, and The Enlightenment in ...

Enlightenment Representation in Candide by Voltaire

and war, which he portrays as contrary to all reason. In the eighteenth century, war was presented to the ordinary citizens as an ...

Enlightenment Thinking Expansion by Theories of Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx

workers actions. If he performed for himself, the worker would not feel alienated by his efforts. According to Marx, a great deal ...

Age of Enlightenment and Religious Views on God?

In eight pages this paper discusses the Ages of Reason and Enlightenment in a consideration of how God was viewed by the Jewish an...

A Comparison of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now

A 5 page discusion of the differences between the movie rendition of the book The Heart of Darkness and the movie Apocolypse Now. ...

Enlightenment and Scientific Societies

with unassailable claims of faith" (Schulz PG). During this period, there was a particular emphasis placed upon rationalism, whic...

Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Enlightenment, Revolution, the State, and the Individual

change and much of the change had hints of individuality and liberty, although most did not demand democracy. In 1776, the famous...

Enlightenment Philosophical Age

In five pages this paper examines the Age of Enlightenment, such events as the Industrial and French Revolutions, and the impacts ...

A Three Part Historical Paper

In this paper consisting of five pages and three part the first portion discusses Europe at the conclusion of the nineteenth centu...