The play “Faust” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe contains a number of aspects that institute a sense of duality is respect to what is good‚ and what is evil. With that in mind‚ the character Faust is frequently criticized as to whether his true nature is that of a hero‚ or that of a villain. However‚ over the course of his journey‚ it appears that he has the qualities of each. Faust’s dissatisfaction with life—and his skeptical view on the concept of God—bring into question whether he is a man of morality
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I happened upon a book by Marius von Senden called Space and Sight. When Western surgeons discovered the necessary steps to safely operate on cataracts‚ they travelled across Europe and America operating by the dozens. Von Senden collected accounts of such cases. The vast majority of patients had no sense of space whatsoever. A patient "had no idea of depth‚ confusing it with roundness" (Senden). Prior to operation‚ the patient would be given a cube and a sphere‚ and through whatever means necessary
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Happiness and the Good Life for Siddhartha The good life for Siddhartha is happiness. Siddhartha is able to live the good life by finding happiness as described by Richard Taylor in the chapter “Happiness”. In his chapter “Happiness” from An Introduction to Virtue Ethics‚ Richard Taylor discusses things that can confused with happiness and says that “happiness is a kind of fulfillment” (“Happiness”). Siddhartha’s main goal is to be happy by fulfilling his longing to find his inner self or Atman
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Napoleon vs. Bismarck How were they alike? How were they different? Napoleon Bonaparte and Otto von Bismarck affected not only the outlook of their own countries‚ but the outlook of Europe as a whole. These two men were solely responsible for their countries preeminence during their reign. Although‚ Bismarck was not the king of his country he seemingly ruled it. Bismarck and Napoleon compare through military success‚ dominance in Europe‚ and ruthlessness. The two men differ by military expansion
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people not want to have to fight for some ideas they didn’t even believe in. But even after all this some militarists in Europe still believed that war was a necessity of human nature. While looking at a source for a European militarists‚ Friedrich Von Bernhardi‚ and a U.S. Pacifist‚ William James‚ I will compare these two sources to how both authors define war‚ if they believe it’s possible to eliminate war‚ and what they believe is the solution to fixing war is. I will also give my opinion on what
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Illustrate‚ sports are heavily dominated in perfectionism and often times failing is not an option because failure to them is the most stressful situation they can experience and they would go to such great lengths to avoid failing. According to Roger von Oech in his essay called To Err Is Wrong‚ he introduced the concept of “playing it safe” and he mentioned “Most of us have learned not to make mistakes in public. As a result‚ we remove ourselves from many learning experiences except for those occurring
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Conservatism‚ Nationalism‚ and Prussification as driving forces of unification After the creation of the German Confederation‚ Otto von Bismarck‚ the Prussian representative in the union of German states‚ was determined to unite them into one single empire‚ with Prussia as its core. Prussia officially took over the rest of German sates by 1871‚ but in the meantime Bismarck implemented several internal and foreign policies to make that happen along with unification. After his speech on September
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Do you like having GPS‚ Weather Reports‚ and TV Broadcasts? Well you can thank the Nazi’s for that and the tireless efforts of Werner Von Braun. The analysis of the piece of literature I chose “Von Braun: Dreamer of Space‚ Engineer of War” by Michael J. Neufeld is quite difficult because there is a lot of controversy surrounding Von Braun and his contribution to the United States of America becoming the first country to put a man on the moon. There is‚ perhaps‚ no one in the history of spaceflight
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Thirty Years’ War: Ernst von Mansfeld Ernst von Mansfeld was a German military commander in the Thirty Years War. Although he fought for the Protestant cause‚ Mansfeld was a Roman Catholic. He was considered one of the most dangerous opponent of the Catholic League. He was born in 1580 as the illegitimate son of Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort and Dorothea von Solms- Lich. In 1594 he served under Archduke Leopold. Then‚ in 1610 he joined Frederick V and the Protestant Union. At the age 36
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plateau was the German historian Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886). Ranke’s contribution were threefold: (1) he played a leading role in establishing history as a respected discipline in the universities‚ (2) he firmly established the notion that all sound history must be based on primary sources and a rigorous methodology‚ and (3) he reflected the broader nineteenth-century attempt to define the concept of “historical-mindedness”. This essay seeks to analyse Leopold von Ranke’s contribution to the study of
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