Plotinus

the fog and filthy air.” (Macbeth I.i.12-13.) Throughout The Tragedy of Macbeth, key events occurred as a result of the disruptions in the Chain of Being, acting as a catalyst to set certain events in motion. Introduced formally by Neoplatonist Plotinus, the idea of the “Great Chain of Being” outlines three concepts of plenitude, continuity, and graduation in the universe. Shakespeare wrote in Elizabethan England where the general belief was that every part of creation had a specific place in…

because of a vague understanding of our natural world or any other supernatural questions. Today we can attribute many of our beliefs, customs, and traditions to these people who influenced religion and philosophy. Certainly, those like Plato’s, Plotinus, and Maimonides all contributed to many versions of religion now well established around the world, because they chose to follow a different path towards knowledge. Although, many have grown distant from any type of inter-reflection…

Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria. He was the second son of Catherine Marie Cardona, a house-keeper and factory worker, and Lucien Auguste Camus, a military veteran. But, however, after the WWI in which Camus is only a less than a year old, his father suffered and died at the first battle of the Marne. Then after his father’s death, he, his brother and their mother moved and lived to his maternal uncle and grandmother in Algiers. At the local Ecole Communale Camus…

Ancient Greece Reading Challenge: 5.2 Required Reading: Ancient Greece: 1. Explain the importance and development of the Greek city-state and the difference between a citizen and a non-citizen: A city-state have city or town that is surrounded by villages and farmland. The city-states in Greek were very independent and they often quarreled. The citizens were strongly patriotic. Many of them participated in public affairs. Only citizens could own land and participated in the government.…

influential philosophers of all time came from Greece not surprising how many Greek philosophers there were. Greek philosophy presumably started in Miletus a Greek city with the philosopher Thales. Other important Greek philosophers included Speusippus, Plotinus, Anaximander, and most importantly Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Socrates taught philosophy on his own and tried to focus on moral and psychological questions. Plato and Aristotle are also well-known philosophers that contributed a…

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…

Obscene America: An Analyzation of Howl In 1955, beat writer Allen Ginsberg produced a free-verse poem titled Howl. Ginsberg’s Howl is a poem that embodies the conditions of America, specifically how Ginsberg viewed them to be. Being a beat writer, Ginsberg was completely aware of the unjust and superficial ideals America was projecting. Not only, but Ginsberg’s poem was completely uncensored, real, and raw while addressing these issues. For instance, his poem was so uncensored, real, and raw…

humanism on Raphael’s work. This piece depicts the historic academy where philosophers of ancient Greece would come to meet and discuss various ideas. Raphael painted many famous philosophers within the picture such as Aristotle, Plato, Socrates and Plotinus.…

The purpose of this essay is to explain how St. Augustine ultimately solves the ‘problem of evil’ in a way that is compatible with his Christian faith by making reference to the aspects of nature of evil itself, and why we as humans sin. Augustine writes to gain better understanding of his faith. In explaining the problems of evil, Augustine provides reasonable thoughts and views about the discussion and has been solved by clearly defining that we need the guidance of God. At a stage in…

Ginsberg: A Modern Whitman with a Twist Postmodernism, a movement in the late 20th century, followed the Modernism movement during the late 19th and early 20th century. The Modernism movement is characterized as a movement that steered away from 19th century traditions in art, religion and faith, and literature. It encouraged rebellion against the cultural norm, was a change for the believed “outdated” day to day life, and focused on finding the meaning/root. At the time, it was…