Hedonism

In order to fully understand if prisons are effective or not we must look into what the purpose of prisons are and how they came to be. In modern 21st century the 3 main reasons for prisons are: 1. To punish those who have been found guilty of breaking the law, 2. to rehabilitate those in prison so that they are less likely to commit crimes in the future and 3. to deter those people who consider breaking the law, from actually committing a crime. The purpose of prisons was not always the same.…

Louis XIV once said "One king, one law, one faith." After inherited leadership in France, Louis ran an absolute monarchal society during the classical age of France. Louis inherited the most powerful country in Europe and expanded on this power throughout his life. Louis is the embodiment of an absolute monarch. During his time of being king, he was extremely popular. At his death, views began to change because the damage of the economy was hard to deal with. Louis XIV’s death created a…

As children grow up in the United States, they are accustomed to the anti-drug propaganda to which everyone has been exposed to since very young ages. The United States have programs such as D.A.R.E, where police officers come into a classroom of middle school children, and educate them about the effects of drug abuse. “SAY NO TO DRUGS!” is a phrase that is mostly embedded in everyone’s head. Advertisements on television and posters on billboards have become more clever to reach out to different…

Greek and Roman authors describe female foreigners in almost diametric terms within the same works, creating a contradictory narrative. Due to Greek and Roman gender roles, women were meant to be subservient. To uphold cultural expectations for female characters, authors had to characterize them as weak. However, for the story to uphold cultural expectations regarding foreigners, the very same characters had to be described as violent and unstable. These opposing ideas lead to a dual view of the…

“My crown, mine own ambition and my queen” (Hamlet, 3.3.55). In Hamlet’s tragedy, these three acquisitions of murder prevent King Claudius from obtaining spiritual forgiveness in his refusal to sacrifice them. In this soliloquy, Claudius recognizes that in order to receive true absolution, one must sacrifice; retaining the benefits of one’s sins begets only hollow, self-serving guilt as penance. Similar boundaries to redemption exist in Henry IV, Part 1, as its characters exist in the wake of…

The first major theme that emerged across Q1 and Q4 was religion creating discipline and harmony. Participants in Q1and Q4 were of differing opinions on the role played by religion in their lives. On one hand, Q1 participants were of the opinion that religion brings “peace of mind” and that it is required to organize a way of life and provides a code of conduct. It is important to keep “our culture in place.” One of the participants stated that “religionis okay. It gets me peace of mind and…

The world when the modern poetry was born was deeply touched by the discoveries of that time, be it Einstein’s theory, or Freud, or the development of a new art – photography. Everything come together and left its mark on modern literature, and implicit, on poetry. On this period, a great influence over the poetry of the world had the American poets. According to Cary Nelson, the modern American poetry is “unexcelled in its richness, inventiveness, and diversity”, and those characteristic are…

I will argue that Utilitarianism will never be seen as the correct moral philosophy and with good reason. Throughout this paper, I will be talking about the Trolley Problem developed by British philosophy Philippa Foot in 1967. This problem, in its simplest form, is deciding whether it is more morally correct to passively kill five people or actively kill one person. For the purposes of my depiction of it, the notion of actively versus passively killing someone will not be relevant for the…

inevitable curse of aging Dorian breaks into tears. The Road to trials accomplishes demand hardships and determination as Dorian’s age progresses. The young man had no idea of the power he possess by his beauty alone and this sends him into the life of Hedonism. Lord Henry becomes the goddess in Dorian’s journey because Lord Henry makes sure that Dorian remains knowledgeable and happy as the center of his ‘ innocent experiment ’ . Enjoying…

Aristotle (384BC-322BC) was a Greek philosopher who is considered to be one of the greatest thinkers in the history of western philosophy and science. One of his most influential works is the Nicomachean Ethics, where he puts forward a theory of happiness that is still pertinent today. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was a British philosopher who has had a considerable influence on contemporary moral and political philosophy. Both Aristotle and John Stuart Mill develop their ethical theories around…