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The Healing Applications of the Hypnotic Technique

Hypnosis is sometimes regarded more as a parlor trick than as an effective approach to influencing human behavior and...

Enlightenment Philosophy and Religion

belief, but at the "priests and their stupid or hypocritical instruments . . we shall think of them only to pity their victims and...

3 Questions on Philosophical Thought and its Effects

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

American and French Revolutions' Similarities and Differences

come forth, but in France, the people just rocked the boat and lasting change would only come about through time. Yes, the extraor...

Enlightenment Arguments for and against Separation of Church and State

to petition the government for a redress of grievances" ("First Amendment")). The idea of the separation of church and state was i...

King George III and the Enlightenment

This 3 page paper looks at the way in which King George III was influenced and influenced The Enlightenment with interests in scie...

David Weber/Barbaros

A 3 page book review on David Weber's text Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. This comprehensive t...

The French Revolution and Enlightenment Principles

his most famous sayings is "If God did not exist, he would have to be invented," which we can interpret to mean that man tends to ...

Parzival/Honor in the Middle Ages

honorable combat and murders Ither by throwing a javelin into Ithers eye (Ash). A true knight would never have indulged in such a ...

Progress and Ideals of the Enlightenment

and the second seeks to "alter the self-understanding of groups which have been defined in negative ways by a dominant culture" (L...

A Fictitious Discussion Between Hobbes and Kant

of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgement and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest me...

Factors in Bringing about the Age of Revolution

and poor urban workers" and this coalition of the middle class and poor "gave the revolution its driving force" (Schmiechen, 1999)...

Karl Marx and the Enlightenment & Kant’s Hope for the Future

not believe that we should be without kings, but that their power should be limited, "That Kings are not superiors to, but adminis...

Wollstonecraft/Vindication of the Rights of Women

them to this necessity. Wollstonecraft attacks each one of Rousseaus principles, showing them to be illogical, inconsistent and ul...

The Role of Women During the Enlightenment and the Romantic Eras

the Age of Enlightenment was formed, at its core, by "Empiricism and a rationalistic doctrine of natural rights... they also held ...

Ideas about Peace and War

theories abound, and this idea actually seemingly did spark speculation about other black leaders deaths, it seems that at the ver...

Canada and Education

approaches the question from the other end of the spectrum. Broeckx begins with a brief description of the average, ordinary Canad...

Buddhism and Hinduism

Theravada Buddhism was the original form, which was based on lengthy meditation and required...

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...

The Definition of a Sacred Text

the principal sacred texts of the various religions, and what forms do they take? What are the liturgical, intellectual, political...

Enlightenment and Environmental Creation by the Scientific Revolution

and inextricably a branch of religion. Beginning with the radical Copernicus, who taught that the earth revolved around the sun, E...

Comparison Between John Locke and Plato

He saw the changing world and the things within it as mere shadows or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, e...

Philosophy of the Enlightenment in Candide by Voltaire

In five pages this paper discusses how the Enlightenment optimistic philosophy is represented by Voltaire in Candide. There are n...

Philosophy of an Enlightened Age

In five pages an examination of spiritual and religious enlightenment past and present is considered in a discussion of Foucault's...

Evolution of Art During the Enlightenment

In five pages this paper discusses how classical art and its balance, simplicity, and order evolved during the Enlightenment era. ...

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...

Enlightenment and Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican and Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year

In ten pages this research paper compares these works and how they encompass the Enlightenment philosophy. There are no other sou...

Buddhism's 8 Fold Path and Yoga

In five pages this paper examines Buddhism's 8 Fold Path in this consideration of yoga that analyzes Jack Kornfield's observation ...

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 ...