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soldier, eight-and-twenty years of age, who had seen a good deal of service and had a high reputation for courage. Of his origin w...

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

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...

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

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

story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...

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

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

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...

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

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...

In five pages these stories are compared and contrasted in terms of their portrayals of good and evil and the failings of society....

a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldnt answer to my conscience if I did" (OConnor). II. HULGA & THE MISFIT: RELIGIOUS FAIT...

Nel and Sula. Nel is light-skinned and lives in a tidy, respectable middle class home. Sula is deep brown and lives in a disrep...

demonstrate that while the philosopher uses rather simple concepts, his method of production and use of language helps to propel t...

an intriguing plot concerning a ministers request to never remove the curious black veil he wears. When he dies, should the congre...

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...

twentieth century, people are all chimeras, or mythic hybrids of machine and organism, or cyborgs (Haraway, 1991). In Western sci...

goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...

as falsely inferred, would have good reason in the end to become distrustful of all thinking" (Nietzsche 821). Those who wished a...

neighbor is henceforth called evil" (201). Evil does not come about by acts of omission but rather by deliberate intent. It is the...

encompassed as well. This view of good and evil has a very Eastern flavor to it, as Eastern religions, such as Hinduism, stress th...

suffering: Why doesnt he participate, and why does he leave his faithful servants to suffer?5 These questions are fundamental to...

husband who appears suddenly, as a snake it seems, which is represented by the whip he scares her with. In this we can symbolicall...

endeavors to avoid such a punishment by doing an exemplary job. Nevertheless, trouble develops and Billy seeks the advice of an ol...

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

It also seems likely that for someone or something to consider death an evil, that entity must self-aware. Its unlikely (though we...

for permitting evil; a reason of which we are not aware. And as long as this is logically possible, there is no contradiction betw...

called the Son of God" (Aherne). In John 1:49, Nathaniel, at their first meeting, referred to Jesus as the Son of God (Aherne). Wh...

takes an offhand remark of Pedigree concerning another student, Henderson, too literally and, interpreting the boy to be evil, wil...