Martin Crane

thinkers of this Age wanted to reinstitute early christianity and its virtue. The Reformation impacted the history of the West greatly. For the very first time Western Europe’s people would be allowed to be a part of a different Christian practices. Martin Luther played a key role in the Reformation in Germany. The Reformation was brought on by a mixture of many different components. The factor that played the largest role was the growing frustration with the Catholic Church. The church had…

‘fragmented situations’ pushed for transformations in exhibition and the introduction of ‘globalized markets’ to increase profit margins. (Schatz, 1993. pp 9) Filmmakers were also pushed to create films that would attract audiences. Directors such as Martin Scorsese and…

How is the futility and hypocrisy of war and bureaucracy explored by Joseph Heller and Francis Ford Coppola in Catch-22 and Apocalypse Now respectively? Catch-22 authored by Joseph Heller and Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Ford Coppola are critically considered two of the finest examples of contemporary anti-war literature and cinema, despite neither being explicitly against the concept of combat as such, but rather, both opposing the bureaucratic absurdity that war inevitably entails.…

When Martin Luther King said “Against this first wall, we will direct our attack”, he was referring to the Three Walls of Romanists in his Ninety-Five thesis against the Catholic Church, not a physical attack. However, Luther’s thesis would trigger the Protestant Reformation which would come to have violent ramifications all over Europe, which brings us to my thesis. Does religion incite or cause conflict? Both warfare and religion are large and diverse subjects, so this essay will look at…

Heidegger sought to radicalize the traditional understanding of what it means to be human and the transform the ‘common sense’ approach held by the tradition by reawakening the question of the meaning of being; however, he arrived too early. Even though his unfinished edifice was successfully nailed on the door of Cartesian tradition long ago; the discussion fell, and is still falling, upon deaf ears. This split with the tradition led him to a disagreement with his old master Edmund Husserl…

many disagreements between people, especially when it came to religion. These disagreements can lead to a wide variety of things, whether it be war, compromise, or just flat out tension. In one of the bigger disputes of religion in European history, Martin Luther and John Calvin vs. the Catholic Church, there was no clear winner or loser towards the beginning, once the two men proposed their ideas of why the Catholic Church wasn’t to be followed blindly. Their unique ideas opened the eyes of the…

Keeping our Authenticity Freedom, authenticity, and the legitimacy of our memories are called to question when one tries to reconcile the complex notions brought forward by two philosophers. Sartre’s notions of authenticity and bad faith call to question the genuine motives behind our actions in the present, but what does that mean about our actions in the past? Can one recover from a past of bad faith, can one bad faith and emerge a changed person with the use of our memories in the work…

The Relationship Between Three Existential Ideas from Heidegger’s Being and Time to the Life of Colleen, a Junior at Fairfield University This essay highlights Martin Heidegger’s work and his ideas of “being-with,” “inauthentic Da-sein,” and “the they.” After explaining these existential ideas, the essay demonstrates the relationship between these ideas and the academic, athletic, and social life of Colleen, a junior at Fairfield University. The paper displays how significant these aspects…

For the Lutheran religion, we learned that Martin Luther (the founder of the Lutheran Religion) broke off from the Roman Catholic Church. One of the main differences was Martin Luther wrote the 95 theses. On October 31st, 1517 Martin Luther nailed these 95 these to the Wittenberg Castle Church door to announce his leaving and coming up with his own organization to preach to what he believes…

Summary of: Superman to the rescue: Simulating physical invulnerability attenuates exclusion-related interpersonal biases In the article, Superman to the rescue: Simulating physical invulnerability attenuates exclusion-related interpersonal biases, the authors, Julie Y. Huang, Joshua M. Ackerman, and John A. Bargh (2013) address the theory that simulating physical invulnerability can affect exclusion-related positive and negative feelings toward in and out-groups. The researchers want to test…