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Tibetan Lamas and Divinity

Noumenon, which Stein refers to as "the Absolute," which must be attained to ensure salvation (Stein 166). Reason alone is not cap...

Mosaic Tradition and Divine Command and the Mosaic Tradition: Maimonides, Al-Ghazali and Augustine

the divine commands and the application of Mosaic tradition require a comparative view of these authors, their underlying purpose,...

Humanity and Divinity of the Christian Church

wanted only man as His own: God, Who has fatherly concern for everyone, has willed that all men should constitute one family and ...

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 ...

Morality's Divine Command Theory

this is the case, then the moral act was morally good independently of Gods will, which is inconsistent with DCT (Holt, 2003). DCT...

Verses Nineteen through Twenty Four of the Thirty Seventh Psalm

as they inevitably have food while others starve. However, the psalmist quickly reassures the reader that this is only an illusion...

Twentieth Century Christian Theology and 'Holiness'

possess it?presumably "attribution of qualities like thankfulness, courage, and chastity" are ruled out (Geach 333). According to ...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and Conflicts of Divine vs. Earthly Justice

In six pages the types of justice as defined in this Shakespearean tragedy are considered with the human 'earthly justice' compare...

Medieval Civilization and Christianity

In six pages Dante's 'Divine Comedy,' 'Beowulf,' 'Song of Roland,' and Augustine's 'Confessions' are examined in terms of gaining ...

Moral Theories

In eight pages this paper assesses moral relativism, Divine Command, and Kantian theories in this evaluation of the strengths and ...

Aeneid vs. the Divine Comedy

The Aeneid of Virgil and Dante's The Divine Comedy are similar in style and format, both being produced by poets. This paper compa...

Dante, Boccaccio, Sin, Gender, and Nature

Comedy reflects an effort to find a spiritual solution to that dilemma. Dante wrote this work -- or, in the language of the poem,...

Shintoism, Confucianism, Taoism, and the Divine

In five pages the divine as represented by these Asian religions are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibli...

Classical Literature and the Portrayal of the 'Faustian Bargain'

In 5 pages this paper examines how the 'Faustian Bargain' is depicted in the literary works Faust by Goethe, Don Quixote by Cervan...

Audience and Works by Dante Alighieri and Homer

In five pages this essay considers the audience and poet relationship as represented in 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante and 'The Odys...

Nonliterate Peoples and Ancient City State Religions

In five pages this paper examines the ancient religions in terms of the literate and nonliterate perceptions of the Divine and Ult...

Epic of Gilgamesh and its Gendered Text

In 5 pages this epic is discussed in terms of the gender roles that the divine and mortal characters embody and the lack of female...

Kamakuran Period Art of Japan

In ten pages this paper discusses the style and development of Kamakuran Period art in a consideration of Buddhism, priests, spiri...

Evil as a Theme in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Dante's Divine Comedy

A research paper addressing the portrayal of evil in Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author draws the c...

Chaucer's Alter-Ego in the House of Fame.

An observational essay dealing with the protagonist of Chaucer's House of Fame, Geffrey. The author asserts that the work is a pa...

Aquinas, Aristotle and Mil's Views on the Law

John Stuart Mill presented his take on the law in On Liberty. This paper contrasts his view with Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics an...

Dante's Characterization in 'Inferno'

In six pages the reasons why Dante elected to utilize himself as protagonist in 'Divine Comedy' are analyzed in a consideration of...

Beatrice's Character in 'Inferno' by Dante

Divine Comedy is examined in six pages in terms of the tales 4 meaning levels, considers why Dante selected Beatrice as the primar...

God's Directive, Temptation, Dante and the Bible

In five pages these themes are examined as they are represented in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and in the Bible. Five sources...

20th Century Hell in Dante's 'Inferno'

In five pages this paper speculates on how the Divine Comedy of Dante could be updated to reflect the various levels of hell such ...

Comparison of Poems by Keats and Blake

William Blakes "The Divine Image" have little in common, as the first poem relates a mystical enchantment of a knight with a super...

Hindu Conceptualizations of God

This research paper/essay discusses the way the divine is conceptualized within the Hindu religion. Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are t...

Democratic Governance and Maintaining Morality

This research paper/essay presents an argument that maintains that it is necessary to go beyond a perspective that focuses solely ...

Religion and John Updike

This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...

William of Ockham

The Middle Ages was a time of dramatic change in Europe and the British Isles. This paper addresses secular and religious values b...