Adam Hochschild

Adam Smith 1. Known as founder of Classical economics, regarded as starting point of classical economics. 2. Described as Father of Political economics 3. He most noted for his work ‘An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of the Nations’ (1776). 4. He is first economist to deal economic problem in systemic manner , hence heis also known as first academic economist. 5. Smith gives the idea “labour is the source of wealth of the nations”, 6. Adam Smith propounded the labour theory of…

In the Bible, the Apostle John proclaims “Sin is a master to whom we become enslaved” (John 8:34). The disciple John clarifies sin can consume one’s spirit completely: tearing a person apart from the guilt of their sins. In the Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne implies a similar concept on how sin is capable of altering one’s character, along with the shame from their guilt. Throughout the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne utilizes key elements such as diction and rhetorical devices, to convey a…

The term evil can be defined as an immoral part of someone or a force in nature that gives rise to wickedness and sin. Both William Golding and Louis Stevenson explored the theme of evil in their books. They used the idea of evilness inside human nature, which was the same, but their own thoughts about basics of evilness was totally different. In this essay, I will look how evil is represented in both these novels through setting, characters and plot. Setting is the locale or period, which the…

Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has a hell and a God that are in many ways difficult to process. Dante’s God can be seen as either a cruel God that encourages torture or a God with divine justice. He proposes a lot of possibilities that do not necessarily sit well with people. One major argument against his reasoning is that he submits people straight to hell just for not believing God. However, he places them in Circle one where their punishment is to have a near wonderful afterlife with the…

“The Play of Adam”, also called “Jeu d’Adam” in French and “Ordo representacionis” in Latin, is a 12th century non-liturgical drama, that is written in an Anglo-Norman French vernacular. It can be divided into three different parts: the first part deals with the creation of Adam and Eve and the Fall of Man, the second part tells the story of Cain and Abel and the last part is a presentation of the Old Testament’s prophets. This essay’s focus will be set on the first part of the play and how the…

By eating the fruit, Adam and Eve committed the first sin and ultimately let sin into the world. Humanity now needed something that would save them from sin and hell. God sent His son, Jesus, as the perfect sacrifice to accomplish just this. God provided Jesus to bridge the…

Friedrich August Von Hayek was a political economist that possessed a tremendous influence on how people in capitalist societies comprehended the concept of liberty. His viewpoint of freedom did not embody liberal ideals, but “a policy that deliberately adopts competition, markets, and prices as its ordering principles” (The School of Life, 2016). Although he had a substantial career, it was after his retirement, that his influence truly left a mark in the realm of economic theories. In his…

Amartya Sen,( an anccesible and exceptional humanitarian – Jon snow, New Statesman) is Lamont University, Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Economics, at Harvard university. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1998-2004. His many books include Development as Freedom, Rationality and Freedom, The Argumentative Indian, and Identity and Violence. Philosophy Amartya Sen said that Justice should not be in Binary terms – It is a matter of…

Origin of Sin • In Genesis 3, Adam and Eve was tempted by the evil snake, he convinced Eve to eat from the tree of Good and Evil, by stating to her that ‘Did God really say that you must not eat from the tree. He convinced her that she would not die, and she would know good and evil like God. This is the first sin that took place on earth by mankind, “Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” (Genesis 3:9 NASB). Sin entered the world by the serpent who deceived Eve,…

Revenge for the Devil I never thought I’d be running through hell with only one arm; fleeing the demons that get off on torturing the souls of the damned. Let’s clear one thing up, they don’t carry around little pitchforks. They prefer tools that can cause more damage, like a hatchet or a sharp blade or two. As I run madly, I get a whiff of the oceans filled with vomit, bile, and the blood leaked out of the tortured. I don’t know if I’ll ever find a way out. You see, Dante was wrong.…