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    Masaccio’s "Holy Trinity" is one of the most intellectually and deeply moving pictures ever painted. Located in the Florentine church of Santa Maria Novella‚ it is remarkable for its early naturalism which initiated the Renaissance painting style‚ but also for the way it incorporates the material world with deep metaphysical significance. The "Holy Trinity" is both the most rational and mysterious of images in that it creates the convincing illusion of space within a painting. Tommaso di Giovanni‚ called

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    Anton Chekov “One must never lie. Art has this speculation.” Chekov is seen as absurd dramatist Absurd Theatre Theatre of the Absurd is a designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction in the late 1950s. Their work expressed the belief that human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore all \communication breaks down. Logical construction and argument gives way to irrational and illogical speech and to its ultimate conclusion‚ silence. Explores the absurdity of attempting to

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    changing in the world of drama. Neo-classicism sprung up from Greek and Roman models in Europe during the Enlightenment‚ Romanticism struck the Globe in the 1800’s based on principles like emotion‚ intuition and seeking God. During and after the 1800’s naturalism and realism began to play major roles in the area of drama. Naturalists such as August Strindberg and realists such as Henrik Ibsen demonstrate an entirely different view of what drama is all about. During the time period known universally as the

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    Critically assess the view that the word “good” has no real meaning (35 marks) Meta ethics looks at ethical language and helps us to identify whether the word good is meaningful. Analytical statements are sentences that are true because of the relationship between the subject and the predicate. Analytical statements are usually self-explanatory‚ e.g. all carnivores eat meat; we know what a carnivore eats which is meat‚ the subject is the carnivore and the predicate here is the meat. Analytical statements

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    At the same time‚ naturalists may say that not even divine revelation can provide knowledge with certainty. And at first‚ that almost seems like it might be true in a sense. It’s not true though. Granted‚ there are certainly enough people claiming to have divine revelation when God hasn’t spoken. And it’s true that the problem of false prophets‚ false apostles‚ and false teachers is a major theme in the Bible. Yet the benefit of true prophets‚ true apostles‚ and true teachers is also a major theme

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    [pic] ETHICS AND FIQH FOR EVERYDAY LIFE (UNGS 2050) ASSIGNMENT 1 MOHD AZWAN BIN JUPERI 0924161 SECTION 10 ASSOC. PROF. DR.HANAPI MOHD NOR 1) Explore a question of moral right and it would be addressed by islam and by ethical system based on secularism. Islam and Secularism. Saudi scholars denounce secularism as strictly prohibited in Islamic tradition. The Saudi Arabian Directorate of Ifta’‚ Preaching and Guidance‚ has issued a directive decreeing that whoever believes that there is a

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    Major Themes Determinism The movement of naturalism was greatly influenced by the 19th-century ideas of Social Darwinism‚ which was in turn influenced by Charles Darwin’s theories on evolution. Social Darwinism applied to the human environment the evolutionary concept that natural environments alter an organism’s biological makeup over time through natural selection. Social Darwinists and naturalists cited this as proof that organisms‚ including humans‚ do not have free will‚ but are shaped‚ or

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    Assess the claim that moral truth is based on natural facts. The attempt to assert that there are natural facts‚ the concept that is termed naturalism‚ is a form of moral realism. Naturalism is empiricist in inspiration. It essentially regards ethical concepts as derived from experience and not given to use by reason a priori. So the naturalist looks to the world in search of moral facts and values‚ hoping to show that moral judgements are really judgements about natural facts that we can discover

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    literature covered a wide range of themes and writings styles. It was most popular during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) and is known as the Victorian era. Victorian literature was formed from three main styles‚ Romanticism‚ Realism‚ and Naturalism. Each of the styles contained writers‚ poets‚ and novelists. In the early part of the Victorian era‚ most of the literature was romantic. The themes of Romanticism were optimistic: worth‚ love‚ and the beauty of nature. The writers mostly wrote

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    | Modern | Modern | Modern | Influenced by | Opinion due to materialism and pragmatism. | Idealism and realism | Naturalism and pragmatism | Educational philosophy | Based on Rousseaus’s naturalism and humanism. | Pioneer | * R. M. Hutching * Mortimer J. Alder * Jacques Maritain | * William C. Bagley * Thomas Briggs * Frederick Breed * Isac L. Kandel | Naturalism * Jean J. Rousseau * Heinrich Pestalozzi * Freidrich FroebelPragmatism * John Dewey * William H. Kilpatrik

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