condition. Weber believes that the modern spirit of capitalism profit is virtuous. He wants to understand the source of this spirit‚ for this he looks at Protestantism for a potential explanation. Protestantism gives us the concept of the worldly "calling‚" and gives worldly activity a religious character. This is important‚ however Weber says that it does not give us the explanation we are searching for. For this explanation we turn to a branch of Protestantism called Calvinism. Calvinists believe in predestination--that
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The Uncanny Power of the Metaphysical Conceit . / / ABSTRACT The conceit originally means a concept or an image. It is in general a figure of speech that presents striking parallel between two different things or situations. The history of English poetry witnessed the adaptation of two types of conceit: the petrarchan conceit and the metaphysical conceit. This paper sheds lights on the second type of conceit which was mainly employed by John Donne (1572-1631) and the other metaphysical
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The Origins of Guilt In both Nietzsche’s book The Genealogy of Morals and Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents‚ both authors address the origins of guilt and the effects it has on society. While they both address these origins‚ the two philosophers differ in their beliefs. Nietzsche deduces that guilt is a result of a man turning inward. Freud on the other hand relates guilt to the subconscious struggle between the ego and the superego. To understand Nietzsche’s version of the origin of guilt
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John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most well know allegories in history. All of the characters in the book symbolize different things. Two characters‚ Christian and Apollyon‚ are two major symbolic characters in the story. Christian is the book’s main character and the hero too. He symbolizes all of the other Christians that are on their journey to find Christ. He wants to find religious truth and the Celestial City‚ which is heaven. Throughout the entire book‚ Christian goes on
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INTRODUCTION Australian Philosopher and atheist‚ H.J. McCloskey published an article titled “On Being an Atheist” in 1968. In this article he offers arguments and what he refers to as “proofs” that a theists’ beliefs in an omnipotent‚ omniscient God should be disregarded. McCloskey bases his article on the Cosmological argument‚ the Teleological argument‚ on the problem of evil and ends his writing discussing why he claims that being an atheist offers more comfort than a theist has from a belief
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Undeniably‚ capitalism is the most dynamic social and economic system ever found on earth. With its fundamental principles of individual rights‚ free market‚ and the ultimate purpose of profit seeking‚ the modern capitalism has created the most prosperous time ever known in human history. The recent history also witnesses that capitalism has transformed and built American into an economic superpower on earth. However‚ the intrinsic nature of capitalism is just like any kind of magic drug. The
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much fewer in number than the Pharisees and the Sadducees (the other two major sects at the time) the Essenes lived in various cities but congregated in communal life dedicated to asceticism‚ voluntary poverty‚ daily baptisms‚ and abstinence from worldly pleasures‚ including marriage. Many separate but related religious groups of that era shared similar mystic‚ eschatological‚ messianic‚ and ascetic beliefs. These groups are collectively referred to by various scholars as the "Essenes." Josephus records
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important and influential modern thinkers of nineteenth century for his notions of inexistentialism‚ post-modernism‚ and post-structuralism; but before talking about him‚ I would like to tell you a brief introduction of postmodernism and how this philosopher took these concepts to explain his ideologies. One of the main characteristics of postmodern thinking is that the world is seen as much more complex and an uncertain place. Reality is not determined and all truth within a postmodern context is
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will instead speak in the manner to which he is accustomed: with honesty and directness. He explains that his behavior stems from a prophecy by the oracle at Delphi which claimed that he was the wisest of all men. Recognizing his ignorance in most worldly affairs‚ Socrates concluded that he must be wiser than other men only in that he knows that he knows nothing. In order to spread this peculiar wisdom‚ Socrates explains that he considered it his duty to question supposed "wise" men and to expose their
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Most Christians these days see every sin as equally bad. In other words‚ no one sin is worse or should draw worse punishment than another. In Dante’s The Inferno‚ however‚ this is not the case. In The Inferno‚ the deeper one delves into Hell‚ the worse the sin that has been committed. The punishments that the souls incur are representative of the sins they committed in their corporeal state of being. Sins that affect others are considered worse then those that only affect ones self by Dante. The
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