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Nietzsche's Philosophy and Essays

that is good. The sun is going down, and it is cold, so that is bad. Evil is something much worse than bad. Obviously, a setting s...

Socratic Philosophy and Plato

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

Comparing the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

The Parallels Between the Progressive Era and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

the bosses, the police, the politicians, and a myriad of other players. Sinclair reveals a dream which is interlaced by theft, pr...

Evil Greed in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

a few is fed by the labor and poverty of the many, as well as the relative uselessness and corruption of these priveleged few)" (G...

Nietzsche's Philosophy

(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...

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 ...

A Discussion of Christian Elements in the Epic Poem Beowulf, and in the Character of Beowulf Himself

the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...

Proof of God's Existence in the Meditations of Rene Descartes

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

Meditations on First Philosophy and Systemic Doubt of Rene Descartes

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

Theme of Evil in The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

is not the impression one gets from reading The Prince," for according to Oldham it "becomes clear to the reader that Machiavelli ...

David Hume's Philosophical Arguments on the Global Presence of Evil

guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...

Hannah Arendt's The Banality of Evil and Modern Bureaucracy

and employees. So, it becomes imperative that when considering the effective management of ethics structures to pay attention to...

Nelle Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

and illustrating that we are all a curious mix of devil and divine. During the 1930s, Lee illustrates the tensions that existed be...

William Rowe's Argument on Evil

by allowing some evils to exist, it makes possible greater goods that cannot be obtained by any other route (Honderich, et al 255)...

Evil Nazi Josef Mengele

In seven pages Auschwitz' 'Angel of Death' Josef Mengele is featured in an overview of his evil medical experiments and 'research....

Friedrich Nietzsche on Morality

In five pages this paper examines a good and evil quote from the beginning of Friedrich Nietzsche's essay 'On the Genealogy of Mor...

Good and Evil Characterizations

work? If the reader proves victorious at ascertaining the entire concept as a whole, while comprehending the connection of the de...

Comparison of Texts on History

In six pages the history texts Five Days in London, May 1940 by John Lukacs, The Coming Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan, Cafe Europa b...

The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Themes of Good and Evil

In eight pages this paper examines how evil is presented as ugly while good is depicted as beautiful throughout the course of Shak...

C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters

In five pages this paper critically reviews The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis in terms of the author's values and how they manif...

Cinematic Technique Known as 'the Long Take'

In six pages this paper examines how filmmakers such as Hou and Orson Welles have employed the long take cinematic technique in su...

The Fountainhead A Novel by Ayn Rand

In five pages the conflicts between first and second handers as represented by objectivist protagonist Harold Roark and Peter Keat...

'Beowulf' and Demons

In twelve pages a discussion of the demons in Beowulf are examined in terms of the uses of doubling and the displacement of evil f...

A Jungle of Stars by Jack L. Chalker

In seven pages this novel is examined in terms of the theme of good and evil and social reflection it presents in terms of plot an...

Good v. Evil in The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

In seven pages this classic theme of good v. evil is examined as it involves Tolkien's classic novel. Eight sources are cited in ...

The Birds by Director Alfred Hitchcock

In a report consisting of six pages the notion of seemingly harmless creatures turning on innocent residents of a northern Califor...

Progress and the Byproduct of Global Governance

In five pages this paper discusses global governance as necessitated by progressive globalization in an assessment of whether or n...

Dualities and Opposites of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'

The opposites and dualities that appear in this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne are analyzed in 5 pages with Puritan ethics and...

Ethics of the Epicureans

his letter to Men?ceus. In it, he tells Men?ceus that it "is right then for a man to consider the things which produce happiness,...