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Essays 361 - 390
was that they were certain and immutable. Also, knowledge must have as its objective that which is genuinely real as compared to t...
into the dissipations of Moscows high society, which he candidly recorded in his diary with vows to reform" (Anonymous About Leo T...
for journalism and suspicious attitude towards unjust laws. His sharp ear for conversation helped him reveal characters through th...
of life and death. Poe was considered a pioneer in his quest to ascertain the inner workings of the sinister mind. A good...
to resurrect and preserve (Gordon 4). Woolf, a manic-depressive, found herself constantly searching for approval...Battling with a...
work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...
people must strive for a knowledge that only comes from being true to ones own choice. According to Plato, men and women both hav...
death. Not simply because death equates with grief, but there is also the element of terror, the fear of a small child at the loss...
gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...
and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...
can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...
how evil is nothing tangibly heinous, but instead reflects the "absence of good."ii In other words, man merely makes bad choices ...
but Augustine lacked "the sincere desire of being heard," so that when he got to Carthage the city seduced him (Portalie, 2004). ...
Porter, 2005). Her education was obtained at convent schools and when she was 16 she ran away (Books and Writers, 2005). This i...
just get the story out. In fact, many novelists and short story writers are storytellers. They simply tell a story. That is all th...
know what they, themselves, look like. One day, one of the people breaks free from the chains and makes it back to the outside o...
yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...
2002). He ended up getting injured in this war as he fought the communists and eventually had to flee Spain for his life (Widmann...
would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...
from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...
change and that personality stays the same. In order to comprehend why this is not the case, and understand the thesis which also ...
philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...
have merit, they are essentially inapplicable to our contemporary concerns regarding knowledge. In other words, while knowledge m...
are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...
of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...
at once managed for himself to become one of the envoys to the king ; upon arrival, having seduced his wife, with her help, he lai...
of subjective satisfaction (Seifert, 2003). Moral goodness just is. One looks at a baby or a puppy and thinks that these living th...
own ship, Otago" (ClassicReader.com). The same year also saw him become an official British citizen. "In the following years Co...
in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...
three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...