Critique of Pure Reason

The film Get Out, directed by Jordan Peele, is the most biting movie on race that has had mainstream success in recent years. A film based around the premise of a black man visiting his white girlfriend’s parents for the weekend, explores many of the same topics discussed in Gender, Media, and Culture. Get Out is unwaveringly clear in its theme of denying the idea that America has progressed to the point of becoming a post-racial society. Peele employs numerous themes to support this idea,…

“Jesusists” because they are not following the teachings of Jesus the historical figure. What a Kantian “religion” would look like today is related closely to what we call the “New Age” faith. Although New Age best describes what Kant would accept as a pure religion, a Kantian religion would be comprised of a group of extremely confused individuals who would truly never achieve anything. There would be no religion. The Christian religion is based on the divine nature of a man named Jesus.…

community of ocean dwellers living in the coastal city of Halifax, Canada. What makes Goyette’s corpus of work particularly interesting for environmental criticism and interspecies discourses is that in her contemporary poetic universes a belief in pure individuality either does not exist or is seen as misguided. Her poetry relies mostly on a language that is semantically enriched by an…

He is proud, a common trait in heroes of his stature. This trait is a common hamartia and reason for their downfall. In the preface of the text, Raeburn notes the parallel between Ajax and Philoctetes in this regard - that, when presented with a solution to their dilemma that can only be achieved through humiliation, the hero will eventually…

Are mind and body essentially different? [Descartes, Conway, Cavendish] In 17th century philosophy, the mind-body issue surfaced many circulating viewpoints as to what the real relationship between the mind and the physical world is. This continuing dilemma brings up questions that have ongoing answers regarding if the mind and body are two substances or not, and how exactly the mind and body are related to each other. I am choosing to take a monist standpoint in this paper, expressing that…

underneath that very surface lies the resounding theme of the novel—The American Dream. "The Great Gatsby" is a pure symbolic reflection of America in the 1920s, depicting the effects of the sudden boom in the marketplace and the intensified materialistic views people gained. The American Dream in the novel is stripped of its ambition and gaiety once Fitzgerald spun a mordant critique of that particular decaying illusion in the society of the '20s, where people 's ethical significance was…

with Indians, unlike many of her friends who are also in India with their husbands. But she bases her friendships on what she knows or hear about that person, and how much she considers that they may have in common. “Forster achieves his profound critique of imperial rhetoric subtly through a tender exploration of cross-cultural friendship, and overtly through an imperial legal crisis precipitated by the intangible experiences of the newly-arrived Briton, Adela Quested. It is this civic crisis,…

ethics, who blithely discourse upon moral right and wrong and moral obligation without any reference to religion, are truly just weaving intellectual webs from thin air; which amounts to saying that they discourse without meaning (Ethics, Faith, and Reason 7).” Does this effect that religion is the only way to explain morality? Friedrich Nietzsche would argue that morality itself wasn’t necessary. Merce Cardus said, “Envy is – Nietzsche recognised – an essential part of life. Yet the lingering…

and has set many standards and rules by which people feel the need to abide by but Emerson states that the people shouldn’t feel forced to conform. He wants men and women to feel comfortable being themselves and he states that society is one of the reasons as to why people don’t feel confident in themselves. He believes that once people start thinking about themselves and doing what they feel is best for them, then they will truly be living a happier life because they won’t feel the urge to do…

Female roles in fairy tales can be described as perfect in every way. She is beautiful, kind, and helpful. She is glorified as good and pure. She is also helpless, naive and lacks any sort of intelligence. Fairy tales don’t always high light the good characteristics in women and this can be problem for society. They give unrealistic expectations of how the “princess” should look, act, and…