Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Science and technology: without them, it would be impossible to improve the world and sharpen life. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein occurs in a world before advanced technological developments, yet philosophy is endured. After falling in love with the nature of the sciences, Victor Frankenstein paves his own pathway of creation and creates his own being in a sickening way. This form of creation is becoming a popular research topic in today’s world, and since the science field is dramatically…

VIn the world that we live in today, there is little care for intellectual virtue. Even in our most trusted liters and advisors, dishonesty in to see her so evident. Dr. Philip Dow dresses these issues and offers strategies to overcome them in his short book virtuous minds. This book is a great resource for students, Parents, teachers, and preachers. It 's broken up into three major sections. The first section, List and describe seven virtues of having an intellectual mind. In the second section…

Remoon Bekhit Final Draft 10/17/2016 Achilles as Trouble Hero Iliad is the most epic story of the classical literature written by the Homer. The story is basically a mix of Greek and other dialectics. It should be noted that among all the heroes of the Greek mythology especially who fought in the 10 years of the Trojan War, none of the protagonist has been close enough to the greatness of the Achilles. He was a bold and courageous warrior who showed no mercy to the enemy, yet showed intense…

text of Taoism, the Daodejing expresses how we must be in a state of “Wei Wei,” in order to be synchronized with the ever-changing universe. The author of the Daodejing was a sage named Laozi, corresponding with ancient, Chinese tradition. On the other hand, the author of the Bhagavad-Gita remains unknown, most likely lost with the passage of time. On the surface, the Bhagavad-Gita and the Daodejing are very similar religious texts…

being restored; not so with the religion foundation but with people’s faith that life could be good. She was able to see correlations with her “Christian” upbringing and the refugee situation in China. Christianity is largely seen as services to others; love thy neighbor, nevertheless, for her being Christian meant something else. Being a pastor’s daughter gave her the ability to see reality over her father’s shoulders. She spoke about her father’s corruption and fraudulence within his…

Self-interest is the pursuit of one’s own desires, or the pursuit of a desirable outcome for one’s self. Conversely, Yeshua’s teachings call for self-sacrifice, the act of giving up your own will by the pursuit of someone else’s (or God’s will). Additionally, Yeshua’s preaching called for living lives of altruistic love, love for others (and for God) that supersedes the love for one’s self and the love for earthly desires. On the basis of these philosophical ideas defined, it is clear to say…

with the opportunity to learn to cook (or otherwise develop one’s person) could and would not choose to participate as there is surely a morally superior alternative, such as volunteering for charity. A moral saint would not spend money on frivolous pursuits such as a concert ticket with friends when that money could be donated towards a charity, moreover if they were provided the ticket at no cost, they would instead give that ticket away or otherwise refuse in favour of volunteerism. There are…

reality. However, our perceived conception of the promise of success usually fails to transpire. Fitzgerald critiques our warped perception of the American Dream in the Great Gatsby through the shallow, empty relationship between Gatsby and Daisy. Other works such as Sister Carrie, Columbus’…

between self-love and benevolence. Some, such as Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavelli have argued that time devoted to either self-love or benevolence is time drawn away from the other. For instance, they argue that time devoted to benevolence is the same as taking upon an injury to oneself to love thy neighbor. They argue that the opposite is also true. Their ideas are not without opposition however, and Bishop Joseph Butler argued openly against their ideas. Butler characterized the other…

believes that he is destined for glory, even though he does not know what it may be. He is conflicted between his pursuit of glory, which he believes provides him the superiority over other men and his love for Fusako which contrary to his pursuit of glory, turns him into an ordinary man. His consubstantial ideologies of linking death to both the sea and love, intertwine with each other numerous times which ultimately proved to be…