Raina Petkoff Raina is one of Shaw’s most delightful heroines from his early plays. In the opening scenes of the play‚ she is presented as being a romantically idealistic person in love with the noble ideal of war and love; yet‚ she is also aware that she is playing a game‚ that she is a poseuse who enjoys making dramatic entrances (her mother is aware that Raina listens at doors in order to know when to make an effective entrance)‚ and she is very quixotic in her views on love and war. Whenever
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politeness behavior in a way that takes into account the constraints on individual behavior that derive from the social setting without assuming that individual cultures are homogeneous or that there is homogeneity across cultures. The theory of relative face orientation We have discussed that Brown and Levinson’s (1987) face-saving politeness theory has been undermined for its inability to be applied universally. In surveying recent studies in cross-cultural communication‚ Mao (1994) mentions Janney
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Cady and Brutus Brutus and Cady emerge as the most complex characters in Julius Caesar and Mean Girls respectively. They are each stories tragic heroes. In each of their soliloquies‚ the audience gains insight into the complexities of their motives. Brutus is a powerful public figure‚ but he appears also as a husband‚ a master to his servants‚ a dignified military leader‚ and a loving friend. Cady starts off as virtually nothing‚ but eventually becomes a direct parallel in terms of Brutus’s power
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In Julius Caesar‚ Brutus is the puppet of Cassius. Cassius controls Brutus by fooling him into believing that killing Caesar would be good for Rome. Brutus is portrayed as a very easily impressioned and idealistic person. His characteristic makes him a potential follower for Cassius. Brutus is Cassius’s tool to get to Caesar. Brutus is close to Caesar and believes anything if it is for the “good” of Rome. His idealism becomes his flaw. Cassius knows that to get to Brutus he has to convince him that
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Pereboom 1990). The conclusion of the argument is often directed against skepticism of some sort. For example‚ Kant’s Transcendental Deduction targets Humean skepticism about the applicability of a priori metaphysical concepts‚ and his Refutation of Idealism takes aim at skepticism about external objects. These two transcendental arguments are found in the Critique of Pure Reason (1781‚ 1787)‚ but such arguments are found throughout Kant’s works‚ for example in the Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
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How "realistic" is Kantian "empirical realism"? Mainly by way of commentary on passages from the Analytic of Principles and Appendix to the Dialectic of the Critique of Pure Reason‚ Abela offers‚ first‚ the "priority-of-judgment" view: "Kant...banish[es] the idea of any epistemic intermediary between belief and the world" (35); "there is nothing outside judgment...that informs‚ constrains‚ or ultimately grounds objectively valid judgment" (139-40). The ultimate ground is simply the totality of one’s
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He cannot even begin to describe where it is they go towards‚ believing it would be even harder to imagine than Omelas. I do not think he could have been one who walked away from Omelas. He seems very resigned to the belief that idealism should be set aside for pragmatism. The willingness of the author to allow us to add any details we like to her story is added to help us visualize its possibility. These minute details don’t change the bones of the story or the meaning behind
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The History of Philosophy A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y and Z (A) Abelard‚ Peter: One of the most heated debates that troubled the church in the Middle Ages was the question of universals. This question goes back as far as Plato’s Forms. It has to do with the relationship between the abstract and general concepts that we have in our minds (what is the relationship between Chair with a capitol “C” and chair with a small “c”?). And from this‚ two radical viewpoints emerged
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Roman life. Some relationships show the concealed discord between characters‚ some show the conniving spirit of those who desire power‚ while others show how some hearts are devoted entirely to the greater good of the republic. The dialogue between Brutus and Portia‚ along with that of Calphurnia and Caesar‚ plays a significant role in the development of the plot. Portia is a symbol of Brutus’s private life‚ a representative of correct intuition and morality‚ just as Calphurnia is for Caesar‚ but they
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