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Essays 271 - 300

Overview of Buddhism

This essay presents an overview of Buddhism that explains the fundamental beliefs of this world religion. The Buddhist orientation...

The Hellenistic Period

This paper explores the ways the ancient views of religion changed in response to the philosophical schools. There are three sour...

Religion, Illusion, and the Theories of Sigmund Freud

the thanatos. Freudian theory holds that human personality is divided into three subsystems, the id, the ego, and the super...

Thomas Aquinas and David Hume on Religious Morality

a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...

Religion and Sigmund Freud

The work that would lead Freud to be called the father of psychoanalysis stemmed from his great curiosity of the mechanisms by whi...

'The Future of an Illusion' by Sigmund Freud

develop and it is through it that we satisfy our basic pleasurable instincts. The libido, in particular, drives the id. While we...

Medieval Individuality and Leadership

require freedom. It would not be until much later, during the latter part of the eighteenth century, that the world would see imme...

Romantic Era Human Rights and Religious Sentiments Represented by Mary Wollstonecraft

thousand years, which was directly related to the need for a shared responsibility for survival. This began to change, however, w...

Evil in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Characteristic of humanitys constant quest for the concept of Gods existence and the problem of evil, the journey of understanding...

Politics and the Incorporation of Religion by President George W. Bush

is found on the money used and in every courtroom in America, there is a bible used. However, as time goes on, and new ways of loo...

Secular Society and Doubt and Belief

In five pages society's incorporation of religion is discussed in terms of several philosophical views that include mainstream rel...

2 Articles on Education, Sex, and Religion Reviewed

proven to marginalize religion in America, seeking to "exclude it from the public square" (Jeynes, 2001, p. 31) and, thereby, reli...

Black American Perspectives on Death and Dying from a Religious View

traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...

Toleration as Defined in 'A Letter Concerning Toleration' by John Locke

in order to ensure proper behavior among the worlds population, yet, Lockes critics asked who is to determine what this ethical co...

Christianity and Religion According to On Liberty and A Letter Concerning Toleration

of itself, is not the end of the line in relation to the state of religious toleration, inasmuch as its very definition is that of...

Homosexuality and World Religions

represents a threat to those ideals is subject to punition" (Swidler). While the protection of womens morality is common throughou...

Kierkegaard on Human Nature

or that their lives are even close to resembling those of the first disciples?" (as qtd. in Galli, 2002, p.62). He poses a good qu...

William James on Religion

II). This relation may be "moral, physical, or ritual" depending upon the person, and thus it provides the basis from which "theol...

Sex and Religion According to Judaism

force themselves upon their wives for sexual favors, and they are not allowed by faith to molest them. The Torah and Talmud both ...

Religious Concepts of Baruch Spinoza

enjoyment of what is good, not in the pride that he alone is enjoying it, to the exclusion of others. He who thinks himself more ...

Cardinal John Henry Newman and Flannery O'Connor

the contemporary novels of today. Rather, they are a means to an end. That end, of course being to illustrate Christian mysteries ...

Arnold J. Toynbee and Pitirim Sorokin

In four pages these sociological theorists are contrasted and compared in terms of their views on human civilization's future and ...

Socrates' Life and Philosophies

In fourteen pages this paper examines Socrates in an overview of his life and philosophical views regarding law, religion, reason ...

French Revolution and Civility

In four pages the French Revolution period is considered within the context of religion according to Alexis de Tocqueville and civ...

Medieval Perspectives on Religion by Keith Thomas and Eamon Duffy Compared

the other hand, is quite different. Duffy sees the magical element as part of an overall religious system that was flexible, vibra...

John Stuart Mill, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Hobbes

In six pages this research paper examines religion and the state as viewed by philosophers Mill, Rousseau, and Hobbes. Three sour...

Religion, Social Stability, and Machiavelli's Discourses On Titus Livius

This paper examines Machiavelli's Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius. The author discusses Machiavelli's views on...

Comparative Analysis of the Philosophies of Galileo, Descartes, and St. Augustine on Science and Religion

In five pages this report contrasts and compares these scholars views on science and religion. Three sources are cited in the bib...

Leonard Levy's The Establishment Clause

In five pages this paper discusses Levy's conclusion that Congress's view of religious freedom was broad and that government was p...

China and India in the Eyes of the World

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the views the world holds of China and India. The writer pays particular attention to rel...