Critique of Pure Reason

Thesis: Due to Transculturation reasons we can appreciate and illustrate the impact of the Spanish culture over the indies. Not only but also demonstrate the idea of obedezco pero no cumplio and its effects over the Spanish hegemony over the indigenous population. My primary sources have evidence of transculturation models over the Indies including the Spanish hegemony and effect on this indigenous population. Americans and Europeans cultures transformed and created New cultures that were…

of fetching coffee for the officers, logging paperwork into the computer, and competitively playing minesweeper, the film depicts the female soldiers as nonessential, not contributing much in terms of fighting the enemy. For the complete opposite reasons as Waltz, these pencil pushers show no heroism, merely surviving day to day, underperforming their office duties, fighting with each other as opposed to the opposing military forces. Also, with inclusions of suicide and rape scenes, the film…

One of the problems about being a legend in any field is becoming the subject of conjecture. This imaginative inference is designed by others as a means of determining how the great hero would respond to a given situation. That is what is being presented here: an educated guess of how an icon of education would respond to the ideas of two contemporary theorists. So therefore, in this scenario one finds the fabled John Dewey philosophically sparring with present-day experts G. E. Zuriff, Lorella…

important characters within the novel have their lives and the reasons behind their personalities explained well regarding hedonism with a quote from an article in Bloom’s Bio Critiques: “Commenting on The Great Gatsby, Berman notes ‘The language … Myrtle buys her dog and Tom buys Myrtle. Nick rents, Gatsby buys, and the Buchanans inherit’” (Heise & Bloom). From the quote, we can see everyone’s hedonism clearly, as well as their reasons sides behind their hedonistic lifestyles: their economic…

The interrelationship between human and its counter opposites should never be categorised in a reductionists binary, as the distinction is not as straightforward as one may perceive. In the Elizabethan era the complexity of the human genre and its sense of placement and connectivity in relation to the natural world was being questioned and explored. Shakespeare clouds the parameters between the human and non-human, stripping the boundaries in order to explore the limitations of humanity. Titus…

are a direct result of the show’s many characters relatability and the way in which they are presented. It’s place in popular culture, an icon of American life, make it a standpoint for the way in which Americans live. No doubt its use of satire to critique American culture has led to its popularity and controversy. Within the subsections of the Simpsons that have influenced American culture it is apparent the impact that just one character can have. The Simpsons family being the focal point of…

Symposium, Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes, Agathon, Socrates and Alcibiades all gather at Agathon’s residence to share a drink together. All of whom, not including Socrates, are part of the elite; intellectual and aristocratic. The reason for such a high profile gathering was their intention to celebrate Agathon’s victory at a contest; he was a playwright in tragedy. He is described as a young beautiful man with a superior command of words. Soon after their dinner, they begin…

Although St. Augustine was born about six hundred years before Plato and Aristotle, he nevertheless encountered the great thinkers through their works. Consequently, a plenitude of themes seen throughout the Ancient Greek philosophers’ books are scattered across saint’s letters and sermons. Because Augustine was a Catholic, however, there exist stark differences between the men’s ideas. Therefore, after naming and briefly describing several of St. Augustine’s writings, I argue that the Christian…

Our world is filled with nations that have total opposite standards of living. Sadly, “more than 80 percent of the world’s population lives in countries where income differentials are widening.” (Poverty Facts and Stats, n.d.) While some lack basic human rights such as access to clean water, others hold great power, resources, and practice a very high standard of human rights. “The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income. The richest 20 percent…

The Other, despite its strangeness, functions ironically in the two texts as a parallel to the normal, thus destabilising the normalised and in turn serving as an effective critique of society’s rigid over-simplified belief system – one that involves the flawed tendency to judgmentally delineate what is normal or not. In Shelley’s “Frankenstein”, the monster as the traditionally conceived Other (arising from its distorted looks) disturbingly mirrors his creator Victor who supposedly is more…