Bertrand Russell

In his article, “Gentle Savages and Fierce Citizens against Civilization: Unraveling Rousseau’s Paradoxes,” author Matthew Mendham further explores Shklar’s work by creating the “Shklarian Model” which is simply split between what is best for a man and what is best for a citizen as being distinct ideals (172). Mendham further elaborates on this argument by explaining the position of Leo Strauss, who argued that Rousseau’s political solution “ought to be read as merely intended for modern…

HE IS RISEN 1 Cor. 15: 3-24 By Abraham Philip, Ph.D. In 1960, the famous Protestant theologian Paul Tillich visited Japan to meet with some Buddhist scholars. During a conversation with them in Kyoto, he asked: “If some historian should make it probable that a man of the name Gautama never lived, what would be the consequence for Buddhism?” The Buddhist scholars replied by saying that it did not matter if Gautama Buddha lived or not. They added, “According to the doctrine of Buddhism, the…

Sam Kean, a Washington D.C. writer with works in The New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, The Believer, Air & Space, Science, and The New Scientist, has created a user-friendly book about how to explain the periodic table and the elements that occupy it by writing the book The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of Elements. He provides an insight into the world of chemistry that relates to his audience, even…

Poetry is not only a form of writing but it is also an art if used the correct way it can be used to mend hearts, lead army’s or to simply express ones feelings toward a subject and or person of choice. T.S Eliot took poetry to an entire new level from his many works and short stories T.S Eliot has be named one of the greatest of our time. Thomas Stearns Eliot (hence the T.S) born on September 26th, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. For most of his child hood to adolescent years he lived in St.…

Too much luck does not result in knowledge. In his 1948 book, Bertrand Russell exemplifies how true belief fails to count as knowledge by illustrating a Gettier case of a broken clock. Sam is in a train station and looks at a clock and sees the hands of the clock pointing directly to 1:00 pm. He sees this and believes it…

How T. S. Eliot’s Passion for Knowledge and Experiences Influenced His Prolific Work T. S. Eliot was a phenomenal poet who mainly wrote in the 20th century. He had many events that happened throughout his lifetime, had a great amount of influences, and wrote lots of poems and plays. Eliot was a very distinguishable author, and his many works still stand out even today. Thomas Stearns Eliot (hereinafter referred to as “Eliot”) was born in St. Louis, Missouri on September 26, 1888. Eliot was the…

In 1888, Otto von Bismarck remarked that “the next great European war will probably come out of some damn foolish thing in the Balkans.” (Massie, p. 82) At the time, he was referring to the aftermath of the Serbo-Bulgarian war, which managed, in a series of resonating blows, to shatter the Ottoman Empire’s tenuous grasp on the Balkans and splinter the League of Three Empires. Over the next forty years, the ever-fluid situation in the Balkans ebbed and flowed, but never strayed far from a point…

When we were a child, our parents taught us that if we wanted something, we had to work for it. When they talked about work, it was a way of saying if you truly want something you would do what it takes to get it. As we grow older, we began to understand why our parents constantly annoyed us to work. In our nation, everything is left working for. Putting food on the table to buying something that pleased yourself; meant spending about forty hours a week on your feet. Working does not necessarily…

“Beggars do not envy millionaires. Though, of course, they will envy other beggars who are more successful.” This quote by Bertrand Russell pulls on the strings of themes such as personal relation to others, economic and social class, and contempt for others as an abstract concept. These same strings are weaved through the novel And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini, in obscure way through character relationships and behavior, diction, and other literary elements. In a novel that’s…

Chapter 3: Pinter’s Political Activism and Political Plays Can art be separated from politics is a question which has been debated upon by many critics. Personally, I feel that since art is a representation of life, and politics in life begins when at least two individuals are involved, it can never be separated from politics. However hard an artist tries to separate his work from the tricky games of politics, his efforts turn out to be futile as the artist’s own idea in his work is a political…