Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Once they have asserted that fact, once they have made happiness the most fundamental of all ethical terms, writers like Aristotle or Locke, Aquinas or J. S. Mill, cannot escape the question whether all who seek happiness look for it or find it in the same things. Holding that a definite conception of happiness cannot be formulated, Kant thinks that happiness fails even as a pragmatic principle of conduct. "The notion of happiness is so indefinite," he writes, "that although every man wishes to…

Many girls have admitted it is the best way to hide their eating disorder for family or friends; they will eat normally in front of other people, but immediately rush to the bathroom to vomit everything up right after. It’s not uncommon for people to be both anorexic and bulimic. They are not categories that people fit nicely into, but rather a range of symptoms which stem from similar…

close to slender, close to the skin. This kind of clothing shows men 's masculinity by emphasizing tough, burly, manly body image. On the other accept , this kind of clothing has some kind of show off style. The external appearance, tend to feminine like flowers, bows, lace, ribbons, sequins, beads and other frequent design. Bright yellow, red, rose red, blue and other high brightness and color purity, and silk, velvet, chiffon fabrics commonly used by modern women, etc. The brand launched silk…

“entirely devoted to the idea of entertainment” (3). For Postman to make his comparison credible and accepted by his readers, he follows his claim with a multitude of relatable situations that prove that the world is focused on being amused and amusing others. In this way, Postman establishes logos in his argument with an abundance of relevant factual examples in…

As the production of art songs among modernist composers faded, the young Samuel Barber was just getting his start as a composer, first gaining recognition in 1928 after winning the Bearns award for a violin sonata, and then again in 1931 with his Overture for The School for Scandal. 12 In the years that followed, Barber became a prolific song composer, anchoring his style in the Romantic traditions developed during the heyday of the European art song. Though judged by critics as “conservative,”…

deeper into a story world; in search for his father, Edward Marriner’s, assistant Melanie who has been possessed by the spirit of Ysabel during the eve of Beltaine(201)—along with two other “reincarnated” men, Phelan(210) (the bald man[17]) and Cadell(211) (the stag man[131]), who have been deeply infatuated…

the film. Heise’s work comments on how deterritorialisation is a product of globalisation, and that eco-cosmopolitan is a product of deterritorialisation. We, as humans, are a part of a network which co-exists with many other beings, and what the film explores is something other than what we are accustomed to. Pandora is the opposite of Earth: it is prosperous, the balance is in perfect harmony, and it is a utopian society where the inhabitants are interconnected to form one unite. In terms of…

look every object”. Emerson believed that “our culture is not come ... none are cultivated” (1969, p. 470). Regarding the habit of attending to the vast variety of all sensations Emerson indicates that this is “a thing impossible to many and except in merest superficiality impossible to any” (1969, p. 435). When Emerson wants to be clear about this, he speaks of culture “in the high sense” or of “the high idea of Culture” (note the capital initial), of Culture as “the end of existence”—an idea…

death as something only attainable through glory in their present lives. As Achilles said in the Iliad (1997 trans.), “If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy, my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies. If I voyage back to the fatherland I love, my pride, my glory dies.” (p. 265). If they were worthy warriors, if they performed heroic deeds, then these deeds would be talked about. If their deeds were impressive enough, then this talk about them would continue even after they died.…

of an entity, especially when seen as a characteristic of it. When we refer to ‘nature’ we will discuss it relative to ‘human nature’, which is the essential metaphysical argumentation of distinguishing traits that humans tend to hold naturally; in other words the human way of thinking, feeling, and acting. The origin of human nature is perhaps the ultimate question that aims to explore the complete ethical, political, and theological spectrum of western philosophy and therefore political…