Critique of Pure Reason

it, thus aggravates distress, and adds fresh horrors even to the wretchedness of slavery (Lauter, 513). Equiano is questioning the British about the institution of slavery as they claim they have a strong love for God; he explains having no logical reason for the inhumane treatment further complicates their Christian ideologies. The inhumane treatment caused Equiano to create his own biblical appeal towards Africa as a way to possibly overturn Christian colonial ideas about slavery (Johnson,…

desire. However, Kant’s concept of beauty is based on human perception of nature – nature outside himself and himself in nature. Nature being outside man, according to Kant, seeks the true, thus being a matter of pure reason, while, within himself, man seeks good, which is practical reason or freedom. Therefore, according to Kant, “beauty is in a subjective sense that which without concepts and without practical benefit, is generally and necessarily pleasing, and in an objective sense is the…

In the book Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History, Susan Buck-Morss wrote the following remark about the paradoxical thoughts on slaves at the time: By the Eighteenth century, slavery had become the root metaphor of Western political philosophy, connoting everything that was evil about power relations. Freedom its conceptual antithesis, was considered by the Enlightenment thinkers as the highest and universal political value. Yet this political metaphor began to take root at precisely the time…

socio-cultural norms of its institutional surroundings and contributes to its socio legitimacy (Handelman and Arnold 1999; Palazzo and Scherer 2006; Scott 1987). The moral and ethical case of corporate social responsibility has been described the “pure” case for business acting responsibly; it is the right thing to do as a member of the society (Osuji, 2011). Institutional corporate social responsibility helps to create strong relationship with stakeholders, a positive corporate image and…

This exhibition intends to reveal the contributions of jewelry to religious and superstitious aspects of Renaissance painting. There have been endless, often highly contentious, discussions of the meaning of these works, and yet their jewelry is rarely examined in depth, if at all. Adornment often signifies symbolic qualities which act as parallels of other symbols in a work, and, in some cases, reveal meanings not delineated elsewhere. This is most apparent in portraits, where jewelry is highly…

On January 19, 1809, Boston Massachusetts a poet was born and his name was Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most influential writer in America today. Poe’s father and mother, both professional actor, died before the poet was three years old, and John and Frances Allan raised him as a foster child in Richmond, Virginia. Poe was a peculiar boy growing up, but he wrote plenty of great stories such as “The Angel of the Odd”, “The Raven” and “Tamerlane”. Edgar Allan Poe wrote short…

Annotated Bibliography of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man Bloom, Harold. Alienation. Ed. Blake Hobby. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2009. Print. Harold Bloom discusses the concept of alienation which the Invisible Man struggles with during his progression through young adulthood. The characterization of the narrator is compared to and appears to have inspiration from important American figures, including Frederick Douglas and Thomas Jefferson, whom both see a need for change. Bloom also…

that “a historian does not say what the Roman Empire was, nor what the French Resistance in 1944 was, but what it is still possible to know about it,” because the knowledge that have gained about the subject is not plainly objective. It is for this reason that Veyne also claims that, “history is a city visited for the pleasure of seeing human affairs in their diversity and naturalness, without seeking in it any other interest or any…

imprisoned homosexuals along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn into the prisoner’s uniforms, became the symbol of their persecution. Hitler’s objective of “purity” was as much about heteronormative sexuality and childbearing as it was about having a “pure race.” I left the event that evening quite emotional. By the same token I am greatful to my parents who instilled in us to “love thy neighbour”, regardless of creed, or sexual orientation. It is my view; that this teaching has certainly…

The Muslim Brotherhood is a Religious Non Government Organization that operates in Egypt who have developed their political ideology through competing in a previously secular political space. The Muslim Brotherhood fill the void in Egyptian Governments social programs through supplying aid to underdeveloped parts of Egypt in the form of education, medical aid, and acts of charity & welfare on behalf of the community, however their work is self motivated as it seeks to both spread the word of…