Philosophical realism

The time period from 323 to 30 B.C.E is what is know as the Hellenistic Age. At close examination of this period in history there is found wonderful growth in many areas including architecture, arts, literature, and “important advancements in geography, astronomy, and mathematics” (Fiero 132). As with many great empires that go through evolutions in culture or ideas, “the advent of the Hellenistic Era was reflected in larger, more monumental forms of architecture and in the construction of…

ridiculous, it’s clear to see how 18th and 19th century readers might have been terrified by it, to the point where they are astonished by the book. Burke states that the sublime , “is the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling”, (A philosophical Enquiry, 36), and it’s clear to see why readers in the 18th and 19th century felt strong emotions while reading The Castle of Otranto because it was new, and filled with tension, the supernatural, and the constant suspense. It wasn’t like…

Throughout the course, there were significant amounts of arts that we observed and the fact we have to choose a top four is just inconceivable. Even though it was difficult finding my four choices, I was able to narrow them down in terms of significance and purpose. My four works of art that I will be discussing about are Mona Lisa (painting), The Colosseum (architecture), Everyman (theater), and Dao De Jing (philosophy). The Mona Lisa, obviously, was created by Leonardo Da Vinci between the…

instead of its ‘true’ state. The main argument that the author was trying to bring out is that the opposition (not the distinction) between quantitative and qualitative research is false, the dualism between the two researches is mistaken. The ‘naive realism’ attributed to those who support more quantitative methodology is not prove to be right. Qualitative research helps test and build block of quantitative knowing. Since ‘facts’ are created by the society and different societies have…

mixed methods approach implies the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods with the same study (Al-Hamdan & Anthony, 2010). Qualitative and quantitative studies are the most common methods used in research. Each one is associated with a philosophical approach. Positivism, which considers the researcher as an outsider observer and independent from phenomena, is linked to quantitative research. In contrast, naturalism or constructivism, which considers the researcher interacting with…

in 1891, and ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James in 1881, James creates a sense of really describing thing by the minute. In realist books the psychology of the main characters was more important than the plot of the book. Social Realism was a subgenre of Realism, which is thought of as the literary equivalent of Marxism and extreme socialism. The social and political situation was almost the same as in the Victorian era, but the women’s right movement became larger, and the first world war…

Aeneas, Anchises, Ascanius, The Rape of Proserpina, Apollo and Daphne, and David. He adapted the traditional greatness of Renaissance sculpture to the Baroque style for religious and historical sculpture. They are powerfully instilled with intense realism, passionate, and dramatic compositions. His sculptures would always focus on specific points of tension in the stories that he was trying to tell. Bernini went on to create several other astonishing Baroque style sculptures over his lifetime.…

World War 1 (1914-1918) was a torrential era in world history, exploiting entire societies; its people and industrial resources. According to Hunt (2012), soldiers found themselves socializing at times with the enemy and avoiding unnecessary battles, minimizing the already insurmountable casualties while maximizing the number of deadlocks. Moreover, the warfare landscape blurred and destabilized cultural classes, censored front line atrocities, and became a preamble to post-war moral…

movement which are functionally related to mental processes; Hockenbury,(1997). So that every psychological experiment is at the same time physiological”. Kaufmann, (2013). He further theorized that what we experience does not always relate to physical realism. Hence, what we recognize and identify may be misrepresentation of reality therefore termed as an illusion.…

because do we really know anything? Epistemology is important in both philosophy and our every day life because it is the clarification of how we think. It is not only knowledge but truth, belief, justification, skepticism, rationalism, empiricism, realism and idealism that makes up epistemology.…