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- 221: American Transcendentalism
- ... lived" (Thoreau). American Transcendentalism was a literary and philosophical movement that emerged in New England around 1836 and flourished for ten years until 1846. This school of thought had a profound influence on American religion, philosophy, politics, literature, and art. The American Transcendentalist rejected this empiricism, asserting that wisdom is inherent in the soul of each human being. The roots of the Transcendentalists' humanistic philosophy is that which exalts the individual as a reflection and integral part of God's divine universe. According to critics, American Transcendentalism was driven by the circumstances of nineteenth-century American life. American Transcendentalism is ... clockwork universe which is fixed and permanent to the Romanticism age (Reuben 2). The American landscape inspired the Transcendentalists' reverence for nature, which provided them with much of the sustaining language and metaphor of their philosophy. Among the chief proponents of American Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson is widely regarded as its central figure and catalyzing force. Critics often cite his essay Nature and An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class ...
- 222: The Life of Adolf Hitler
- ... history and mythology. He had a curious but academically untrained mind and examined the complex philosophical works of Nietzsche, Hegel, Fichte, Treitschke and the Englishman, Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Hitler picked up bits and pieces of philosophy and ideas from them and wound up with a hodgepodge of racist, nationalistic, anti-Semitic attitudes that over time became a die hard philosophy, later to be described in his book, Mein Kampf. The utter misery of his poverty also deeply influenced Hitler. He adopted a harsh, survivalist mentality, which left little room for consideration of kindness and compassion ... supreme form of human, then there must be others less than supreme, the Untermenschen, or racially inferior. Hitler assigns this position to Jews and the Slavic peoples, notably the Czechs, Poles, and Russians. "...it (Nazi philosophy) by no means believes in an equality of races, but along with their difference it recognizes their higher or lesser value and feels itself obligated to promote the victory of the better and stronger, ...
- 223: Style Of J.D Salinger
- ... works. Salinger uses religion in his works to comfort them so that they can proceed on their quest to achieve happiness. Salinger uses religion as a means for liberation. Salinger uses much of the Zen philosophy, as in the case of Nine Stories, to achieve this liberation (Madsen 93). In Nine Stories one of the characters, Seymour Glass, is portrayed as Buddha in the sense that he wants to be liberated as Buddha was in his life (Madsen 93). Seymour Glass in Nine Stories has a certain philosophy about life, it is similar to the Eightfold Path used by Buddha when achieving nirvana (French in Matuz 212). Seymour Glass is on a quest to become free from all of the suffering in his ... seemed very dismal, until religion intervened and stopped the conflict. Salinger creates happiness for the characters by stopping the conflict. In "The Stranger" Salinger creates peace through a war by using more of the Zen philosophy. Salinger''s creates a "Pact of Peace" which stops the conflict between the Germans and Polish during WWII (Hamilton in Bryfonski and Senick 143) . The "Pact of Peace" was a teaching used by Buddha ...
- 224: The Differences Between, I Feel Certain; I Am Certain; It Is Certain
- ... for the arrival at this conclusion. This proposition would almost certainly elicit inquiry into this evidence, and dependent upon this may be considered more or less valid as true knowledge by the differing schools of philosophy. For Descartes (methods on discourse) the only certainty was his own existence. He did not ‘feel’ certain of his own existence, he ‘was’ certain. However he could not have asserted ‘it is certain’. This would ... and objective. The requirements in terms of evidence for such a proposition may prove to be too exacting for anything other than an analytical statement. Modern analytical empiricism is perhaps more suited to science than philosophy but as shown by Russell (history of western philosophy) it can identify for us certain truths, which utilise a ‘powerful logical technique’. These certainties however tend to be mathematical and do not regard or consider feelings, emotions or ideas. ‘It is certain’, would ...
- 225: Objectivism in The Founterhead
- Objectivism in The Founterhead Howard Roark from, The Fountainhead, was the physical representation of Ayn Rand’s philosophy, objectivism, and various other main characters represented other philosophies which were rejected by objectivism. Howard Roark shows all of the basic principles of objectivism at different points throughout the novel. The character Ellsworth Toohey represented collectivism, and Peter Keating demonstrated altruism. Altruism is the philosophy of finding morality in living for others or for society. The most prominent altruist in The Fountainhead, was Peter Keating, who was the exact opposite of Howard Roark. He gave up his soul to make ... supremacy, and so he constantly tried to decimate him. Toohey tried to destroy him all of his life, but he was always unsuccessful, showing that collectivism would never overcome objectivism. Objectivism is a relatively new philosophy, which has been accepted by many in a short period of time. It is described as a philosophy for living on earth. Objectivism is an integrated system of thought that defines the abstract principles ...
- 226: Michel Foucault And The Cultiv
- ... of the care of the self. Human’s failure to attain and nurture this self results in the decay of this self. Foucault saw his writings on this and other concepts as part of a philosophy known as the art of living. The art of living in this sense means one whose main purpose is to be like no one else. As such, he felt he was directly useful to the ... the very heart of himself but at the brink of that which limits him; in that region where death prowls, where thought is extinguished, where the promise of the origin interminably recedes." According to Foucault, philosophy began with the purpose of changing people’s lives on an individual level. He viewed ancient philosophy as a way of life centered on Socrates’ coined term “the care of the self”, and later, “the cultivation of the self”. In many ways, Foucault embraced the tradition of philosophy as the art ...
- 227: Birth Of Nazism
- ... revolutionary politics that first arose in the early part of the twentieth-century in Europe. It was a response to the social upheaval, the devastation of World War I, and the Bolshevik Revolution. Fascism a philosophy or a system of government that advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of aggressive nationalism. It celebrates the nation or the race as an organic community surpassing all other loyalties. This right-wing philosophy will cal for violent action to assure total loyalty, which is held in such high regards. Fascism approaches politics in two central areas; populist and elitist. Populist in that it seeks to activate "the people ... the nation will also take care of its members if the need should arise. This could be in the form of money, shelter, food, or any other need that might come about (Schneider, 1936). The philosophy of Fascism can be traced to earlier German philosophers who argued that, the will is and prior to superior to the intellect and reason. Friedrich Nietzsche and George Hegel are leading philosophers whose beliefs ...
- 228: Biography Of Adam Smith
- ... date. Adam Smith senior was the comptroller of the customs at Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. Smith grew up in Kirkcaldy with his mother. In 1737, Adam Smith became a student at Glasgow. He was studying moral philosophy under Francis Hutcheson. Smith referred to him as "the never-to-be-forgotten." In 1740, Smith entered Balliol College, Oxford. Regarding Smith, William Robert Scott has said, 'the Oxford of his time gave little if ... began delivering public lectures in Edinburgh. The subjects of the lectures were rhetoric, but he then took up the subject of "the progress of opulence." Then in his late twenties, he first explained the economic philosophy of "the obvious and simple system of natural liberty," which he later declared to the world in his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. This excerpt from one of the ... the start of his development of his most famous book, The Wealth of Nations. In January of 1751, Smith was appointed professor of logic at Glasgow University. He then transferred to the chair of moral philosophy in 1752. Smith's main task at Glasgow became lectures on moral philosophy. The main subjects of his lectures were ethics, rhetoric, jurisprudence, and political economy. "John Millar, who attended Smith's classes from ...
- 229: Augustine And Conversion
- ... that led to his addiction to sex. Augustine s struggles in converting make his psychology on conversion a plausible one. Augustine s long road to becoming a Christian started when he first became interested in philosophy. This happened in Carthage in the year 372 AD. It was at this time that he read Cicero s Hortensius.This writing, which explained the search for true wisdom, the pursuit of truth for life ... that led Augustine to search for a religion or way of life that he could be at comfort with. For nine years from 373 until 382, Augustine followed the ways of Manichaeism, a Persian dualistic philosophy which at the time was widespread throughout the Western Roman Empire. With its fundamental principle of conflict between good and evil and its claim of a rational interpretation of Scripture, Manichaeism at first seemed to ... seemed like the best way to live out his wish of Give me chastity and continence, but not just now. Later Augustine ran into many contradictions in Manicheist doctrines, which led him away from this philosophy and turned him to skepticism. Soon after finding out these contradictions Augustine left Carthage and headed off to Rome and then on to Milan. While Augustine was in Milan he met Saint Ambrose, who ...
- 230: Black Panther Party
- ... in Northern Black neighborhoods (Brooks 136). Huey Newton recalls in his autobiography Revolutionary Suicide, "We had seen Martin Luther King come to Watts in an effort to calm the people and we have seen his philosophy of nonviolence rejected. Black people had been taught nonviolence; it was deep in us. What good, however, was nonviolence when the police were determined to rule by force." Newton and other urban Black people believed ... of Malcolm X's birthday, the year after his assassination. The death of Malcolm X was yet another event which led Black youth to question the traditional leadership of the Civil Rights Movement and its philosophy of nonviolence. It is out of this change of the movement’s focus where Huey arrives at the idea for Black youth to openly display weapons. This action would be soon to serve as a founding principal within the Panthers. Eventually serving as a founding principal of the Panthers, Huey's suggestion for a demonstration of armed protest was inspired by Malcolm X's philosophy for self-defense. The SSAC's rejection of "Brothers On the Block", eventually led to Huey and Bobby's resignation from the Campus Organization. Fed up with the increasing police brutality towards African Americans ...
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