Prior to engaging critically with this quotation one must first contextualize it successfully. That being said‚ this excerpt was penned eight years before Islamic fundamentalists‚ like the author‚ overthrew the Shah and his government in favor of an Islamic theocracy. The anti-western sentiments that coat these words had been percolating in Iranian society long before the Ayatollah had authored this text. Modern antipathy toward Western governments began in 1953 when an ill-conceived attempt to
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Writing just a few years after the end of the Great War‚ Fitzgerald takes as his theme the hedonism of a materialistic society in which spiritual values are dead. His eponymous hero throws parties on Sundays (to which ‘the world and its mistress’ flocked) because he hopes that Daisy‚ the object of his faith‚ hope and love‚ will come to him. In her absence‚ he stretches out his arms towards the green light at the end of her dock and‚ as Fitzgerald makes repeated references to it‚ that light
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revolving around wealth and status above all else. Fitzgerald depicts this obsession with money and luxury through complicated relationships full of trouble‚ infidelity and sorrow. The relationships Fitzgerald portrays all symbolize the materialism and hedonism of the age; each relationship is doomed to a certain extent based on the social class of each character. In the aftermath of WW1 America was a society rising commercially and economically‚ the idea of the ‘American Dream’ was rampant and with
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literary voice of the twenties and thirties‚ Fitzgerald was also among "The Lost Generation’s" harshest and most insightful social critics. In his classic novel The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald blatantly criticized the immorality‚ materialism‚ and hedonism which characterized the lifestyles of America’s bourgeois during the nineteen-twenties. Collectively‚
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Great philosophers have coined terms and given their views of what happiness means. Greek philosopher Aristippus based his view of happiness on physical pleasure and to the possession of items owned that provide a person with pleasure‚ known as “hedonism”. Greek thinker Epicurus invented the term “epicurean”. Epicurus felt happiness came from being free from pain. Greek philosopher Zeno felt that true happiness is born from how we respond to events that happen to us-“Stoicism”. Philosophers Plato
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thereby examined closely. While psychological egoism isn’t an ethical theory and rather discusses our motivation for certain behaviors‚ we still find the connection to this example and examples from previous chapters. Let’s consider the chapters on Hedonism and the connection between our pursuit of happiness and the consequential behavior that is then elicited; as well as the natural law theory which persuades followers to behave naturally. In both cases these behaviors were motivated by our understanding
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Pros and Cons of Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is a philosophy in which the ends justify the means‚ or in which the morality of an action is determined by the function that follows the action. Although Utilitarianism has many good principals that are both logical and appealing‚ the contradictions of the philosophy make it incompatible with Christian ethics. The moral standards that utilitarianism is supposedly based on only work when a person doesn’t consider the personal emotions that might
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Throughout the nineteenth century setting of London a recurring theme of hedonism and thorough admiration for beauty and individualism reflect Dorian’s inner motives as well as his long sought self purpose. In this sense the most significant moral of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is that the supreme task of the individual is to realize fully‚ and from within‚ one’s own identity. Dorian exemplifies the drama of his troubles on the rough journey to find his identity from influences of a
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Discourse Analysis Critical Discourse Analysis on Iwan Fals Song Lyric “Asik Nggak Asik” focusing on Semantic‚ Lexical Cohesion and Ideology By: Heri Winarko (2011120052) Indri Astuti (2011120014) Muhammad Ainul Muiz (2011120061) Syaifurohman (2011120059) Section C ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF EDUCATION USBI THE SAMPOERNA UNIVERSITY JAKARTA 2014 Abstract Song‚ despite as a tool to entertain the audience and also as a tool to express the writer’s feelings. In the lyric of some
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Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray: Mortality Not Art Art for art’s sake. The saying originated from the French phrase l’art pour l’art from the nineteenth century French philosopher Victor Cousin. Art in this sense was not meant to be concerned with social‚ political‚ and moral subjects. Instead it was to concentrate on beauty‚ which would re-word the phrase to "art for the sake of beauty and its elevating effects." No matter the wording‚ art for art’s sake became central to the British
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