The 20th century has seen a continuation of the battle between reason and romanticism‚ rationalism and mysticism. With little conflict‚ Darwin and Freud co-exist in the modern mind. Marx exhibited the split vision‚ extolling the power of practical‚ realistic workers who would create a utopian world. In fact‚ this dichotomy which began in the Renaissance and became a gaping wound in the 17th and 18th centuries as we embraced science and reason as our god‚ has allowed for 20th century aberrations
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Starting at 210a of The Symposium‚ Diotima speaks with Socrates about reaching the final vision of the mysteries. She starts talking about a young boy who is starting to be attracted to beautiful bodies. He first loves one body; and then‚ realizing that all bodies are relatively alike‚ he begins to love all beautiful bodies. After that‚ he comes to appreciate the beauty of minds‚ not caring anymore about physical attraction. After all stages‚ the boy will ultimately come to loving beauty itself and
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A Call to Action: A Look at Thoreau’s Walden Many critics or casual readers of Henry David Thoreau are quick to characterize him as a self-important recluse‚ whose infatuation with nature and the outdoors was more of an outlet for his antisocial behavior rather than a genuine belief that nature is truly important to one’s self. While there is an aspect of this point of view‚ Thoreau’s reasoning behind his love affair with nature goes deeper than that. In the second and third chapters of Walden‚
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John Locke wrote an Essay Concerning Human Understanding to give his philosophy of mind and thought. In Book I‚ Locke told that discovering where our ideas come from‚ ascertaining what it means to have these ideas and what an idea essentially is‚ and examining issues of faith and opinion to determine how we should proceed logically when our knowledge is limited were the three goals of his project. He disagreed with the idea of Plato and Descartes that all men have an innate knowledge. He states
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According to Dr. Andreas Petzold‚ the term “‘Romanesque’‚” meaning in the manner of the Romans‚ was first coined in the early 19th century. Today it is used to refer to the period of European art” (Antiquity 1). The church architecture is fundamental to this period; “the Romanesque and Gothic churches were built on the foundations of Carolingian architecture. Charlemagne’s early Romanesque architectural achievements were continued by the Holy Roman Emperors Otto I-III‚ in a style known as Ottonian
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Book Arrangement: Stalin: A Biography is structured with a complex system of parts‚ chapters‚ and subchapters. Five parts are broken down into 55 descriptive chapters‚ each one highlighting a different prominent event or idea in Joseph Stalin’s life. As expected from such a substantial number of chapters‚ this book presents a plethora of information regarding Joseph Stalin’s personal life and political career. The novel follows chronological order of his life as it journeys from his disturbed childhood
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“Pop music sucks.” With those simple words I have aligned my chakras and transcended the mortal realm. I am enlightened. I do not consume mainstream media like some mindless sheep; I only listen to real music. Music with meaningful lyrics by obscure indie artists: the ones that sing exclusively about cigarettes‚ sadness‚ and our vapid society. Flash forward a few years later and I am being awakened to full consciousness at a One Direction concert. I had temporarily blacked out from my music-induced
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skepticism: the idea that nothing can be known without a doubt and everything in the world can be questioned. The enlightened also emphasize the thought that the human mind can progress intellectually. This is shown by John Locke’s (ca. 1680) concept of tabula rasa‚ claiming that a human is progressively changed by their environment rather than being born with pre-written ideologies. The enlightened used the power of knowledge to bring about some judicial reforms. Cesare Beccaria (ca. 1760s) fought for a
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Study on Montag’s Ideological Progression In Fahrenheit 451‚ by Ray Bradbury‚ the main character‚ Guy Montag‚ has many different shifts in attitude and thinking. Montag goes from being a mindless‚ government-operated drone‚ to a self-sustaining‚ enlightened thinker. In the beginning of Fahrenheit 451‚ we are introduced to Montag‚ a fireman who makes fires instead of putting them out. He sees burning as a pleasure‚ and he hates books. However‚ once he meets Clarisse McClellan‚ his mind begins to blossom
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people had every right to hold the same offices as the peninsular Spaniards. The Spanish‚ however‚ felt that the American soil tainted the blood of the Creoles‚ making them inept and incapably of holding such positions. Bolivar was an example of an enlightened Creole Elite who socially and politically had to defer to the peninsular Spaniards. Because of this‚ Bolivar took the stance of many‚ but not all creoles; that a declaration of independence was the only real freedom for Latin
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