and the future. Happiness is parallel to contentment based on dictionary. Man has never been content all his life. His success for having attained a particular end always paves way to the urge to meet a higher end. Epicurus‚ an Athenian philosopher‚ suggested that in order for man to achieve happiness‚ he
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ISSN : 2348 - 9715 ISSUE : 1‚ May 2014 International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Mysticism in Rabindranath Tagore’s GITANJALI Mr. Rohit Bagthariya P.S.Hirpara Mahila College- Jetpur E-mail: rohit.bagthariya@gmail.com Abstract The best minds of India have always held mysticism to be the source and ultimate proof of the teaching of philosophy and of religion. The father of Hindu religion‚ the Vedic seers were mystics who embodied in inspired words what they saw in mystic vision. Tagore
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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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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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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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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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diminishes the religious context‚ instead associating virtù with the physical and mental capacity to create new circumstances. By applying this skill with the knowledge of history‚ the New Prince can read into the future‚ thereby blazing their path to worldly glory. In the Prince‚ Machiavelli focuses on developing virtù as an adaptive skill stating‚ that a prudent man should “imitate those who have been most excellent” so that he may come close to their greatness. (Mach 92) Machiavelli defines the relationship
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