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19th and 20th Century Philosophies of John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, and Richard Rorty

Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...

Choice Making and McTeague by Frank Norris

to make choices based upon the priorities of others rather than their own priorities. There are so many pressures from so many so...

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...

Gershom Scholem and Franz Kafka's Interpretations of Judaism

and we can start to see the representation of Judaism in Kafkas work, Scholem stated that "Although unaware of it himself, [Kafkas...

Art According to Plato and Aristotle

However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...

John Locke and Karl Marx on Freedom

man being superior to another, the contradiction still stands. Despite some inadequacies in his work, the simplicity of Locke is ...

Durkheim, Lombroso, and Beccaria on Crime

Cesare Lombroso was an Italian medical doctor, psychiatrist and criminologist, who created a sensation with his book that was publ...

A Comparison of the Tales of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf

warrior society that Beowulf invokes derives from these "newcomers" to the British Isles. Abrams, et al also state that in this wa...

Comparative Analysis of Dworkin and Devlin on Morality in Society

way in which the ideas are created but rather because there is a lack of autonomy. He does not view morality as something that is ...

Robber Baron John D. Rockefeller

hand, does not accept the fact that Rockefeller was a benevolent, conscionable businessman. At a time when business was literally...

Race According to Charles R. Lawrence and John Stuart Mill

anti-discrimination legal issues and laws, equal rights protection, and the newer "discipline" of modern and critical race theory....

Education Politics, Modernism, and Postmodernism

at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...

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...

Women as Viewed by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen

the novel and the author views her, and thus views women in general perhaps. The character to be examined is Rosa Dartle. She "i...

Government and the State, Good and Evil, and the Individual According to Philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

from mans knowledge of truth; Aristotle believed that all men pursued happiness which came not from wealth but from contemplation ...

American Revolutioin from Different Perspectives

how things were effected, but rather, the investigation goes to why. One may glean, from reading this book, that America was prope...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Battles According to George Lefebvre and Roland Mousnier

In five pages Lefebvre's and Mousnier's views on what contributed to the French uprisings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centur...

Perspectives on the Soul, Socrates and Aristotle

for Plato and are directly related to that capacity of understanding. Physical things of the world must, of necessity, have bodily...

'Justice as Fairness' and John Rawls

fairness and justice (Rawls, 1958). Many of Rawls philosophies are reflective of those of other great thinkers who preced...

Simone de Beauvoir, Emma Goldman, Foucault's Power Structure, and the Film The Matrix

who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...

Analyzing the Theories of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes

would affect others (Kahl, 2002). So then, it only makes sense given this framework that people in general tend to pursue that wh...

'Last Man' and Friedrich Nietzsche

reference regarding a camel fitting through the eye of the needle. Certainly, Nietzsche did not mean to suggest anything beyond th...

Comparative Analysis of 2 Critical Views of William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

Gertrude in Hamlet and Jocasta from Oedipus Compared

all. However, Hamlet does not see it this way and becomes very angry with his mother for marrying Claudius. Because of this, Ham...

Poetry by Hardy and Eliot

himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...

Wolfgang Mozart's Opera The Magic Flute and Its Depiction of Women

is angry she escaped and he is angry that he did not get what he wanted, sex from Pamina. This clearly establishes an attitude tow...

What Women Want in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In this simple summary we see that the Wife of Bath is saying that while women want love and they want beauty and they obviously w...

John Kerry v. George W. Bush's Views on the Supreme Court Contrasted

of Bush and Kerry are intimately aware, of course, that the judicial branch can override both the President and Congress. They ar...

Contrasting and Comparing Theories of Public Education

to those in public schools, but the testing does not always bear this out. From a study of Giarellis chapter, it seems likely tha...

Humanity and Science in The Two Cultures by C.P. Snow

was Frank Raymond Leavis, one of Snows contemporaries. Leavis viewed Snows suggestions as crassly materialistic. He suggested in...