This‚ for instance‚ is the meaning of Plato’s statement that ’music imitates the impulses of the soul’‚ or as Aristotle puts it: music is similar to ethics and related to it. The same tradition continues in remarks by Kierkegaard‚ Schopenhauer and Nietzsche when they say
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Suffering is an Inescapable Part of Living What is "suffering"? Does it have any advantages? Suffering is an inescapable part of life. Whether it involves the minor bumps and bruises of daily living or major traumas such as terminal illness‚ death‚ or the breaking of a family‚ suffering touches all of our lives at one point or another. Helen Keller once said‚ "The world is full of suffering‚ but it is also full of people overcoming it". Though Helen Keller was not a philosopher‚ in this quote
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GETTING TO KNOW A MADMAN’S BRAIN People have always been trying to explore human mentality‚ to figure out how the brain works. They have been particularly interested in psyche of madmen. Many writers also share that interest and one of them is Edgar Allan Poe‚ who‚ in his “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ presents a character‚ whose insanity leads to a murder. His name is Montresor. Vowing revenge‚ because of some insult‚ which one of his acquaintances‚ Fortunato‚ ventured upon‚ he tells him‚ that he has
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upper class girl Ruth and thereafter kept toiling himself in learning and writing and eventually got acclamation but meanwhile lost his hope in life and drowned himself in the sea. Jack London has read many philosophers’ works‚ among which Friedrich Nietzsche exerted a great influence upon him. Hence his Nietzschean character Martin Eden. A superman himself‚ Martin has a strong will to power‚ to transcend his laboring class‚ to win Ruth’s love for beauty’s sake‚ to show his contempt for the hypocrisy
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floats beside me The sweaty-toothed madman with a stare that pounds my brains His hand reach out and choke me And all the time he’s mumbling Truth‚ like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. You push it‚ stretch it‚ it will never be enough Kick it beat it‚ it will never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying‚ to the moment we leave dying. It will just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream.” In this poem‚ Todd is saying that the madman is passion‚ but passion (the blanket)
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Transplanted into a strange‚ new world beyond different from his own‚ John the “Savage” is quite the fish out of water. Throughout his journey in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World‚ John is now having to deal with people and customs that are all governed by science and conditioned to be the perfect specimen. In this new world‚ everyone is healthy‚ everyone is conditioned the same exact way‚ and certain customs such as parenting‚ marriage‚ religion‚ and mourning the dead are thought to be a waste of
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believes you should never base your actions on the consequences because they are never that clear. To illustrate the point‚ one could imagine a madman with a gun intent on murdering a random member of the public. If‚ by chance‚ his target turns out to be an even more evil individual who was intending to slaughter thousands of innocent children‚ our first madman who does ‘good’ by shooting him‚ however there is no doubt that this does not show good will which is for Kant the only thing in the world which
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It starts with just a moment of tailgating‚ or maybe the guy in front of you cut you off or wouldn ’t let you into the fast lane. In some cases it appears that incidents of road rage are caused by simple misunderstandings between drivers. A driver may make a momentary error of judgment but the perception of another driver is that he or she is driving aggressively. Then suddenly it turns into World War III on the highway. It matters little what causes it; a bad day at the office‚ a love affair
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thinkers around the world to question life’s meaning‚ one’s purpose‚ and how professed divine figures could allow such extreme suffering. A growing number of people reached the same conclusion existentialist that Friedrich Nietzsche had several decades earlier. God is dead. Nietzsche extrapolated that the universe is indifferent to human agony and that life is meaningless. Kierkegaard further evolved this thought‚ arguing one could provide meaning to his or her life through his or her decisions. In the
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technique (wikipedia) was developed and changed the way people write music forever. Different shapes and architectural pieces defined the way we build and design our furniture‚ buildings etc... The great thinkers of modernism include Descartes‚ and Nietzsche. Rene Descartes had set out to prove that Aristotle’s way of thinking was flawed. Descartes saw that
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