doubting‚ - he could not doubt the existence of his own self‚ because he could not doubt it unless there was a self to do the doubting. Further to this point‚ Augustine writes in his City of God - Without any delusive representation of images and phantasms‚ I am most certain that I am‚ and that I know and delight in this. In respect of these truths‚ I am not afraid of the arguments of the Academicians‚ who say‚ "What if you are deceived?" For if I am deceived‚ I still am. Descartes after arguing
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The book “Cockroach” by Rawi Hage is a dramatic story which talks about a man who is not sure in his identity. This book conveys that the protagonist is a special character because he isn’t able to differ Love and Sexual attraction‚ nor can he differ from what is bad or good‚ nor he isn’t quite sure that he is a human being. He is an exceptional‚ unique and even in some way an inimitable person. This essay will help you to understand why and how he is a special character. Firstly‚ the protagonist
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In the eighteenth century novel Frankenstein‚ by Mary Shelley‚ the protagonist creates a creature commonly known as Frankenstein. From a young age when his mother past away‚ the main character‚ Victor Frankenstein had a passion to create life. With this passion‚ Victor set out for the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Here Victor acquired the knowledge allowing him to execute his plan. Victor was interested in bringing the dead back to life‚ thus leading to his downfall. After many tries he finally
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Edward Burnett Tylor was born in 1832 and passed away in the year 1917. He was the founder of modern academic discipline of anthropology. Tylor belonged to a generation of academics and was raised in a religious family. He was a well-educated individual who began his own career in fieldwork in Mexico and ended up receiving and honorary doctorate from Oxford University where he was the keeper of the Museum. He eventually became the first Professor of Anthropology in Britain and later retired in 1909
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“The Allegory of the Cave” Excerpt from Plato‚ The Republic‚ Book VII‚ 514A1-518D8‚ Socrates and Glaucon are conversing: SOCRATES: “Next‚” said I “compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as this. Picture men dwelling in a sort of subterranean cavern with a long entrance open to the light on its entire width. Conceive them as having their legs and necks fettered from childhood‚ so that they remain in the same spot‚ able to look forward only‚ and prevented by
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There are many motifs in Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ but one of the most important is the recurring disassociation of appearance and reality. The entire motif is introduced in the first scene when the witches say “Fair is foul and foul is fair” (1‚i‚12). This is then reiterated as important when Macbeth says‚ “So foul and fair a day I have not seen.” (1‚iii‚ 39). Drawing parallels and comparing two polar opposites‚ such as foul and fair‚ sets the stage for the dissimilarity between appearance and reality
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“Pepe” Biondi]) with television’s penchant for inculcating ideology or generating passive spectatorship to protect conservative interests. Yet Di Tella’s documentary doesn’t offer its analysis primarily to lodge a protest‚ but rather to explore the phantasm-like losses that configure his identity. In that sense‚ his film powerfully suggests television’s pivotal role in shaping the popular imagination of his generation. In contrast‚ his father‚ Torcuato‚ quips that he never felt the same kind of attraction
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Gothic texts are distinguished by the conventions they explore. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole‚ The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe and Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridgem all create an atmosphere of mystery and suspense and highlight to cruel terrors and passions prevalent in Gothic texts. In atmosphere of gloom and terror can be conveyed through medieval setting and inexplicable occurances. In the Castle of Otranto‚ various events occur‚ which are completely arbitrary
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Plato and the censure of Art Plato when imagined his ideal state‚ he asserts that societies have a structure where in everything has its place. To maintain order‚ every factor of life‚ from people to production to ideas must be subordinated to the good of the state. As such‚ if art needs to be censured for the betterment of the State‚ it should be. Plato presents a logical argument of the arts‚ specifically painting and poetry‚ and comes to the conclusion that art should be censored.
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