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Essays 1831 - 1860

Looking at Empiricism and Rationalism

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

Life and Politics of Phyllis Schlafly

role model for women. While feminists spout rhetoric to the effect that a woman must do such and such and should not do such and s...

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...

Saint Augustine and Seneca on the Relationship Between the Divine and Mankind

understand divinity. Both philosophers seem to have been influenced by the teachings of Plato. In Senecas On the Shortness of Li...

Self Love According to Aristotle

we love ourselves, we fill ourselves with love that we then are able to give away (Is Self-Love Justifiable? 2004). If we do not...

Comparing Siegfried Kracauer's Reality to Arnheim's Perceptions

he sees and thinks of his grandmother and has nothing to do with the present moment until the grandmother speaks (Widoger 22-23). ...

Machiavelli's Beliefs and Modern Political Relevance

concern the ultimate goal or greater good." In essence, he is arguing, according to Oldham, that the end justifies the means and t...

Overview of Self Mutilation

superficial variety is most common among adolescents. Self-mutilation is commonly the cutting of forearms or wrists, but there ca...

Reception Theory and Films Star Wars and Star Trek

viewers (Sklar, 1998). In this regard, reception studies seek empirical evidence, either "historical or ethnographic research," th...

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...

Executive or Parliamentary Governing in the United Kingdom

We need to consider the set up and the role of parliament in order to best understand the role it plays within the legislation. It...

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...

Secular Society and Doubt and Belief

In five pages society's incorporation of religion is discussed in terms of several philosophical views that include mainstream rel...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Morality Past and Present

her husband who did not reside with her. As such she could not deny that she had an affair with someone. However, she would never ...

Television and Book Fantasy

smart enough to know that their world is not the same as the story worlds to which they are introduced at an early age. Bruno Bet...

Christianity from Historical and Phenomenological Perspectives

was born on a certain night that many glean as magical or mystical and it is presumed that this boy grows up to become the Savior ...

Existence and the Philosophies of Simon de Beauvoir, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Rawls, and William James

were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...

Twenty First Century Alienation

psychologically, socially and spiritually. Still, while some people feel fulfilled, a majority appear to be alienated. The main ...

Full Spectrum Long Term Care Business Plan

Hamilton View proposes to provide a full range of options for seniors, beginning with independent living, moving into assisted liv...

2 Articles on Education, Sex, and Religion Reviewed

proven to marginalize religion in America, seeking to "exclude it from the public square" (Jeynes, 2001, p. 31) and, thereby, reli...

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...

Education and Gender Inequality

al, 1988). Obviously, these are old-time descriptions of the roles men and women were expected to assume in decades past. These ro...

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 ...

How the Personality is Affected by Alcohol

and Dougherty (2001) address is that to which individuals refer when labeling someone as a "mean drunk," however. Moeller and Dou...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and the Fugitive Slave Act

examine the realities of the time and thus see the attitudes of Twain. First we see that Huck is very disturbed by the fact that J...

Sixteenth Century Abandoned Wife Bertrande de Rols

precludes any acknowledgement of anyone outside of the upper classes of any society, however. The "common people" receive little ...

UK Poverty

income is related to consumption and lifestyle or other factors that are related to deprivation (2000). In measuring poverty, the ...

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...

Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by Alasdair MacIntyre

of the Catholic Church. MacIntyre introduces his principal thesis in Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by pointing out that form...

Tragedy as Defined in Death Of A Salesman and Aristotle

play, I think, and maybe that is what does it. We are faced with the spectacle of all that love being lost on someone who can t r...