Sophism

heart like thee: a brain open to heaven and hell.” Since both man and the animals are made by the same Creator, they should both have the ability to think. Second, I would like to use a small logical trick to support my view, although it might seem sophism to some people. Since Blake maintains that “thought is life /... / And the want/ of thought is death” , I conclude that he draws the equation thought = life and thoughtless = death. Then because the fly is a living creature, it must have…

The wise fool described by Erasmus is someone who can see past the chaos of the material world and find greater truths in their madness. Characters within King Lear that exhibit the qualities of the wise fool: selflessness and loyalty, in their search for the truth and the treatment of others, find greater clarity in their decision-making, a factor crucial to their standing at the climax of the work. The characters may be classified into two categories, those who stay loyal to Lear through his…

Even with their contemporary impact, the Enlightenment-era Social Contract theorists were not without their detractors—two prominent critics being Mary Wollstonecraft and Karl Marx. Because each takes issue with the Enlightenment, one can theorize their responses to the assertion that "the Enlightenment ideals (EI) (of freedom and equality, firmly grounded in notions of reason and progress) are riddled with hypocrisy and should therefore be abandoned." I will argue that while both Wollstonecraft…

When Jane Eyre was first published in 1847, it became an immediate success. George Lewes, a well-respected British critic of the time, praised the “originality and freshness of its style, possessing the merit so rarely met with now-a-days in works of this class” and deemed it “the best novel of the season” (581) while Rev. Dana of the New York Harbinger applauded its “dramatic power” and impressive “penetration into the secrets of human character” (95). Not all critics shared this view, however.…