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Toni Morrison said that “The past is more infinite than the future… It's avoiding it, deceiving ourselves about it that paralyzed growth. This quote talks about how thinking about the past, pretending things could be different are what causes someone to never escape their own guilt about what they've done. This sentiment is particularly evident in Beloved, it is one of its main themes in the book. Both the characters of Sethe and Paul D had lives filled with suffering and hardship. In order to…

This essay will focus on Susan Wolf’s attack on deontic moral theories. She argues that we cannot accept deontic theories as they prescribe moral sainthood. For Wolf, this is an undesirable model of life that is unrealistic to strive for. I will put pressure on the third premise of her argument. Arguing that she makes an inductive leap from her opinion, that the moral saint’s life is undesirable, to the theory that prescribes it can’t be accepted. For Wolf, deontic moral theories promote a…

My Character Education Philosophy Lauren A. Vader Concordia University Abstract In the first part of this paper, I discuss how one’s image of human persons determines their educational philosophy. As I view human persons as essentially spiritual, my character education philosophy tends toward focusing on the nurturing of the soul through the transcendent ideas of truth, beauty and goodness, with a special emphasis on empathy and perspective taking. Of the three aspects of…

Between “Jon” and Brave New World seem to both point to something essentially human that cannot be replaced by technology. Our human nature that responds to the world in an animalistic way as these texts and their symbolism point out cannot be filled or silenced. The literature clearly asks us to compare ourselves and to redefine what being civilized really is since the citizens of both the World State and the Facility are supposed to be refined and civilized but their actions and words are…

Not Bliss Knowledge is the characteristic people obtained through millennia of trial and error that has allowed humans to become the dominant species and control the Earth. People’s natural curiosity initiated science and technological movements in the early years of humankind's history that have given us new understandings and perspectives of the world. However, before humans had time to move their focus from basic survival to more intellectual endeavors, they were ignorant of what is…

Uprooting the Truth “The universe is composed of Nature and the soul,” said renowned Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson in his piece title Nature (qtd. in Perkins 591). The vitality of nature’s power is one of the fundamental pillars of Transcendentalism. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter mirrors this concept, nature playing a vital role in the novel from beginning to end. The influence of nature is a common theme throughout the novel. Specifically, the forest, flowers, and sunlight…

Understanding Morality in Anthem The city of Anthem is unlike anything seen in the modern world. Ayn Rand’s strange, futuristic society is seen by many as a place from the past. Though Anthem may begin out sounding like this, readers later find out that that this odd city is from the mysterious future. It is believed by the people of Anthem that in order to create a perfect world there can be no sort of ego. These people always use the word “we” instead of “I”. Citizens do not have distinct…

vernacular which tend to carry a less thoughtful and desensitized meaning. These euphemisms collectively contribute to the break between the actions of humans and what we, as people, with basic human rights regard to…

appreciating something about them when we truly don't. But as argued by Twain, integrity is not that important when the truth affects others. It is better to be benevolent than to be truthful and abrasive. All in all, lying is a factor that makes us all humans, whether the lies are bad or good. We are not perfect, but the art of lying can be perfected and should be if it is being practiced. Still, lying should not be an option because it hurts others. Both Twain and Ericsson are right about…

In the reading “Help Those Who Help, Not Hurt, Themselves,” Christian Brahmstedt presents an argument why the homeless should not be supported by the public or government. However, in supporting this argument, Brahmstedt makes several invalid and unsound points in the form of fallacies. In Brahmstedt’s “Help Those Who Help, Not Hurt, Themselves” he uses material fallacies, which are flaws given or material used, in order to support the idea that the homeless should not be supported by public or…