Taoism

Head in Heart Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism, once said, “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” In a battle between the head, the thoughts, ideas, and logic, and the heart, the feelings, emotions, and passion, one often faces a critical choice: to follow one’s head or one’s heart. In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Jane, an orphaned young lady on an odyssey to find love and true happiness, is faced with this conflict of balancing…

Zoroastrianism is a religion that influenced the development of Christianity and Manichaeism. It believes in the role of individuals determining their own fate and emphasizes the duality of good and evil. Early Aryan influences on Persian religious traditions. Zarathustra (late 7th-early 6th centuries BCE) is the founder of Zoroastrianism. He believes that Ahura Mazda had chosen him to be a prophet. In the sixth century BCE, Zoroastrianism attracted Persian aristocrats and ruling elites. It also…

I believe that there is a direct relationship between a society’s shared worldview and its environmental behavior. A worldview is defined by the Oxford American Dictionary as a philosophy of life or particular conception of the world. Societies have held a variety of different worldviews overtime, in different regions, and among various groups. These include traditional ecological practices and indigenous ways of knowing, eastern polytheistic religions, to a western, human-dominated view of the…

trust existence to be non-teleological. A well-known literary exhibit of a non-teleologist is a person named John Steinbeck. Through the entirety his life Steinbeck experimented with Darwinism, transcendentalism, realism, socialism, naturalism, and Taoism (Endnotes 1). Every of these ways of wondering appears in Steinbeck’s philosophy and therefore his work cannot be one or the other. All that…

Therefore, no matter how the outer environment changes, people should comply with the eternal laws of the nature. In page 18 of The Abolition of Man, Lewis talks about Chinese Taoism. According to Lewis, he thought Tao in Chinese culture is equal to the Way or Road of the world. Chinese people always talks about Great Things or The Greatest Thing, and such great things indeed refer to the immutable essence of world—the laws of…

Origin of Han Dynasty (Thasmia) The end of the Qin dynasty marked the beginning of the Han dynasty. The Qin dynasty (221-206 BCE) was very short and cruel. The first emperor of the Qin dynasty, Shi Huangdi, used legalism as a method of ruling. Legalism is a method of governing in which the people are to follow laws or any violations of the laws are strictly dealt with. The legalist ways did not gain favor of the people. The brutal techniques in the legalist way of governing had produced…

How can anyone really know if ghosts are real or not? Is there actually evidence to really tell because who knows if anyone has truly seen one? There are people out there that go and search for ghost and they have only heard noises, seen shadows, different pieces of light, and most importantly different energy waves that match up with what they are looking for. They have studied ghost activity and if they are real for years and there has been hard evidence but does anyone know for sure.…

What if the Bible was never created? Written over by over 40 different authors, over the span of 1400 to 1800 years, the Bible is the foundation in which many of us live by today. The Bible is a collection of stories that talk about Jesus Christ and his journey to help mankind. It also includes stories of this faithful followers and the creation of men by God. Different religions have different interpretation of the Bible which help us explain how we came to be. What if the Bible was never…

Cultural diversity is essentially the existence of a multitude of different cultural and ethnic groups within a society. Cultural diversity continues to increase here in the United States, hence the need for healthcare professionals to have at least a basic understanding of a variety of cultures prevalent in the society in which they are providing care. Furthermore, it’s important to provide culturally competent care, which means “having the knowledge, abilities and skills to deliver care…

Importance and Impact of Issue Retinoblastoma is a major problem as it causes loss of eyesight and if not treated, people may perish. This cancer is treatable in its early stages, but many people in developing nations are lost to this dreadful disease. In developing countries, nearly 87% of people who contract this disease from their parents die because of poor medical attention. The children that survive this unwelcome disease are left with moderate visual imparities for the rest of their life.…