Georg Simmel

Karl was the third of nine children living in a middle class home. He attended private school where he joined a radical group later becoming the president. While studying in London with his wife Jenny von Westphalen he started reading Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich influenced Karl to do a lot of his writings that he would become famous for today. During his years of writing scholars ignored Karl Marx and most of his…

Still enjoying great success half a century after it’s first release, the Sound of Music franchise is an interesting phenomenon. Although it has roots in the von Trapp’s tale, the form was morphed beyond the facts and became an entirely new creation. Their story has been told through several mediums, most notable of which are music, theatre and film. As one of the most successful musicals of all time, the catchy tunes and deceptively simple lyrics played a pivotal role, augmenting the…

There are many methods of teaching the various subjects taught in today’s educational system. One such method is the dialectic approach of Idealism. The dialectic approach can be applied to many different areas of teaching to enhance the educational delivery and the resulting understanding of the students. Idealism is possibly the oldest Western philosophy we know and study in the present day. It traces back at least to Ancient Greece and Plato. It was once the dominant philosophy of Western…

There is an array of parenting styles that exist today, that inhibit a child’s growth and understanding of life. Parenting styles greatly affect the psychological growth of a child. Children’s development is based upon their environment and the home which they are raised in. Parents are the driving force in a child’s life. No matter what role the parent has, they are still related to their child, and from there it influences their child’s being. The influence can have positive or negative…

1.1 In The Sociological Imagination C. Wright Mills describes the sociological imagination as enabling “us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society” (Mills [1959] 2000:6). The sociological imagination facilitates individuals to locate themselves within society, the historical context of their society, and recognize the other individuals that are in his or her same state. “The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the larger historical…

contributed to the eternally evolving world of philosophy, Marx is also a premiere example of how philosophers build of one another’s work. Marx drew from many of his predecessors, but there were two in particular that influenced Marx tremendously. Both Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Charles Darwin, made astronomical impacts on Karl Marx’s belief system and philosophy, and undoubtedly prove that prior philosophers have and always will influence future generations. In order to show the…

lesser degree that the European peasants experienced. The society Marx lived in was this gap between rich and poor that concerned Marx and influenced his political and economic philosophy. Marx also found influence in philosophical thinkers such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Adam Smith and David Ricardo; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henri de Saint-Simon and Charles Fourier; Ludwig Feuerbach and Friedrich…

The Lord and the Slave According to Georg Friedrich Hegel in his Lordship and Bondage, all conscious being fall into a “new relationship” of “the Lord” and “the Slave.” (Hegel, 32) Proving that this relationship is still being seen we use it to analyze the relationships between men and women in Glaspell’s Trifles. Throughout the story, the theme of master and slave are presented through clues that are shown through the relationships between men and women in the story. The first clear clue…

German Philosopher, Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, believed Antigone was an unrivaled example to support his claim on tragic collisions: stating that there isn't a tragic hero, only a collision between two who are equally right in their own standards. Antigone and Creon both had justified views in this play written by Sophocles— Antigone focusing more of lawful ethics and the Creon based more on family morals. This does, indeed, support Hegel's theory of a tragic collision, but only to an extent to…

If thirty years is significant for time of societal change, that means two people's lives with this time difference will be very unique. In the Sound of Music, directed by Robert Wise, postulant named Maria, lived in an Abbey in Austria, where she was accepted-only when she was being a responsible. Then, she was assigned to go a become the governess of the Von Trapp Family and moved back to the Abbey once love came into the equation. Finally, she came back and discovered that those loving…