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Gender, Social Construct, and Metaphysics in the Writings of Virginia Woolf

be possible to establish what is absolute truth, and that the only way in which she can proceed with her exploration into women an...

2 Philosophical Questions Examined

the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...

Language and Ideas in 'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth

Iin five pages this poetic analysis of 'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth focuses upon the sights and language that sugge...

John Milton and John Donne's Metaphysical Poetry

In nine pages this paper analyzes the poetry of John Donne and John Milton in terms of the metaphysical aspects of each poet's wor...

Janie Crawford's Freedom Through Self Knowledge in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

to have such a crowd enjoying themselves in her house; its apparent that she enjoys it. We know because she says that shes sorry ...

Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

letter dated February 17, 1903, Rilke warns the young poet that Things arent all so tangible and sayable as people would usually ...

'Epithalamion' by Spenser and the Concepts of Sacrifice and Ritual

some reference to violence, in the course of the consummation of the marriage. There are, she notes, elaborate rhyming stanzas, th...

Personality's Spiritual and Metaphysical Components

have applied Freudian and Jungian personality distinctions based on dream analysis as an element of understanding the spiritual an...

Spiritual and Metaphysical Personal Influences

or may not challenge the norms of society. For example, cult participation, whether metaphysical or spiritual in design, pushes i...

Seventeenth Century Cavalier and Metaphysical Poetry

In twelve pages this paper contrasts and compares the cavalier and metaphysical approaches to seventeenth century poetry in a cons...

Existence in the Sense of the True According to Thomas Aquinas

In five pages this paper examines such metaphysical phenomena as change, Cambridge change, real change, and existence within the c...

Aristotle's Original Theories

coined until Aristotle contributed to it, the concepts were there in the past. Thus, in such concerns, one might say that Aristotl...

Metaphysical Conceit in the Poetry of John Donne and George Herbert

In eleven pages the concept of 'metaphysical conceit' and how it is stressed in the poems of Herbert and Donne are discussed in th...

Germany's Guilt as Empowerment

about what German guilt was and what it was not, and what the purpose of it was. This argument continues today. Jaspers said Germa...

Darwinian Influences in Louis Menand's Work, The Metaphysical Club

influence of his surroundings is critical to forming his racial image. Attitudes are spread from generation to generation, commun...

Seventeenth Century 'Old English' Literature

observing the "loud mirth in the hall," yet unable to be a part of such fellowship due to no fault of its own, but rather the circ...

Achilles and Socrates

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

Plato's View of Who Should Rule

for which they are talented. Here, it is thought that the rulers who are willing to rule, who go into the cave, who are vocal, are...

The Life of Socrates

could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...

Elements in Plato's Republic

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

Plato's Apology/Capital Punishment & Academic Freedom

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

Culture, Education and Legislation in Plato's Laws

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

Plato: Law, War, Peace and Virtue in the "Laws"

suggest that both love and hate can be taught (Plato). We can further extrapolate from that to conclude that if a nation is in har...

Jury Member Speaks Out on Socrates’ Innocence

brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...

Belief in the Gods and Plato's Practice of Open Inquiry

has many flaws. There is question as to whether or not the method really gets to the truth at all. In fact, one has to wonder whet...

“Apology” and “The Passion of Christ”

most part. He was clearly setting himself up as some sort of martyr or individual who would ultimately bring about change to the s...

How Aristotle Opposes Plato's Attack on Poetry

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

Plato's Arguments for Forms, Immortality and Knowledge

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus

This essay pertains to Plato's perception of rhetoric and the role of eros, as indicated by his texts Gorgias and Phaedrus. Five p...

Plato's Philosophy and Criticisms

thought that the Theory of Forms was useless when it came to explaining the material world "because the connection between the two...