Idealism

Should the minimum voting age be 18 years old? The 26th Amendment gives young adults under the age of 21 the right to vote. At the time of the Vietnam War the minimum voting age was 21 years old. Whether or not you think the minimum voting age should be 18, the 26th Amendment helped further improve equality in the United States. The 26th Amendment states that "The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the…

The Triumph of the Will (1935), but rather the Nazi ideology of anti-Semitism. The film is styled as a documentary to give the feel of realism. This film is one of the later films released by the Nazi party and shows the strength the party had on idealism. Unlike previous films, which politically tried to persuade German citizens to join the party, it focuses on the scapegoat tactic the Nazi used to blame the Jews on the crumbling of the German society and economy. It stresses the idea of the…

the woodland area of Massachusetts. This was the Brook Farm utopian experiment. This utopian farm was founded by George Ripley and his wife, Sophia Ripley in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, now present-day Boston. Brook Farm was set to be a place of idealism and cooperative communal living. The farm would fail after a series of misfortunes only five short years after its beginning in 1846. The constitution of Brook Farm showed this failure by being unable to follow through on the foundations of the…

When most people hear the word cult, they think of people in dark cloaks worshipping Satan or bald monks who live in mountains as hermits. That is not always the case though. It is not as easy as one may think to spot cult members as they come from varying walks of life. The purpose of this paper is to define cults, to explain why people join cults, and to apprise the danger that cults pose. Although most religions start as cults, there are many qualities, criteria, and traits that…

“The Allegory of The Cave” can be easily related to Plato's Theory of Forms, and both can be used to decipher the possibility of true human knowledge. The “Doctrine of 2 of 9 Forms” is one of Plato’s famous theories, which states that the physical world is not the real world and there is an ultimate world that exists beyond it (Macintosh). Plato says that there are two types of realms: the realm of corporeal things in the physical world and the realm of forms. First, the realm of corporeal…

For the purpose of the paper every element, though living or non-living, has a voice and is able to express something about it that we need to be sensitized to which is the character, suitability and the properties of the material. A dialogue is a conversation between two or more entities regarding a particular topic for a purpose. As mentioned earlier, there are four groups which can be associated with that of a product among whom the dialogue happens  Designer – Designer  Designer –…

He had the help of Bayard Rustin and many others to fulfill this plan. Most people thought that he was following Gandhi and his methods, but in truth he knew little about the wise man. Carrying on, the idealism of nonviolence was a big step, let alone equality. King explained his understanding of nonviolence, which seeks to win an opponent to friendship, rather than to humiliate or defeat him. Making more friends than enemies is what the U.S. should lust…

According to Madden, “A crusade army was a curious mix of rich and poor, saints and sinners, motivated by every kind of pious and selfish desire, yet it could not have come into being without the pious idealism that led men to risk all to liberate the lands of Christ.” For the Christians, the men were motivated not only to liberate the Holy Land but to seek salvation and forgiveness of sins, as suggested by Pope Urban II. Interestingly, historians differ…

Hegel who is a German philosopher and an important figure of German idealism believes that consciousness of objects mention some awareness of self, as a subject, which is isolated from the recognized object. But Hegel argue that subjects are also objects when we look at the other subjects. In ‘the Phenomology of Spirit’, he tries to point out that self-consciousness is the awareness of another individual’s understanding of oneself. One of the most important pieces he wrote is called the…

A renaissance man is defined as “a person with many talents or areas of knowledge.” (Defining the “Renaissance Man”) There have been many throughout history. One of the most famous people in literature, Shakespeare, could be considered an ideal renaissance man. As I learned more about Shakespeare, I wondered how others portrayed him. Was he considered a renaissance man? What exactly is a renaissance man? As I learned the definition of a renaissance man, I concluded that Shakespeare was indeed a…