The Egoist

suffering. Your happiness is my happiness. I would always regard your emotions, your needs, and your vulnerabilities as I regard my own. I am unskillful, and I apologize If I cause you suffering. Love is devoid of suffering; our unskillfulness and egoist practices is what causes another to suffer. I would never want for you to feel abandon. I am present and mindful of you. You mean everything to me. My suffering. Unskillfulness. Shortcomings. The abusive behavior and language. In your own…

Besides captivating readers through the retelling of past events, Tennyson used his poetry to consider social issues of the Victorian era. However, unlike his rival Elizabeth Barrett Browning, he never outright proclaimed his stance. Alternatively, Tennyson’s poems rely on an active participation from the reader to provide them with meaning. Instead of telling the reader what to believe, Tennyson’s mission was to encourage discussion about Victorian social issues. Similarly, in his poem, The…

In this essay, I will defend psychological egoism as the most probable explanation for moral choice and motivation. I hold psychological egoism to be “the view that all men are selfish in everything that they do, that is, that the only motive from which anyone ever acts is self-interest” (Rachels 233). Since every action is moved by a desire to be satisfied, even in supposedly altruistic acts, one acts on a desire to satisfy one’s desire, so that supposedly altruistic acts are not actually…

Dishonesty is a common theme in many works of literature. The denotation of dishonesty will be: When one person is deceptive either by intentionally withholding information or by making a false statement to another with the intent of deceit. In Natsume Sōseki’s 1916 novel Kokoro and Mark Twain’s 1884 novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the main characters have to deal with the dishonesty that occurs in their friendships. In Kokoro, Sensei, after losing everything to his uncle, thus making…

According to Durkheim social forms of suicides can be determined from empirical co-relations. From his analysis, with the statics from different European countries and its relationship with social factors, he found out different types of suicides. He believed that suicide rates were depended upon the degree to which the individuals were integrated into social groups and the magnitude to which society regulated individual behavior. In his book Durkheim classifies different types of suicides…

Ethics Happiness by living a good life is the objective that we should be aiming as humans, is one of the main point made by Greek philosopher Aristotle. Everything we do in our day-to-day activities should be towards happiness. Happiness is the only mean to an end itself. Claggart’s actions are ultimately motivated by his suppression of his homosexual desires, can also show us an important inside in Aristotelian ethics. The inside is that the Aristotelian goal of having a well-lived human…

rich girls.” (Mangum, 1981, p.956) In 1918, Ginevra King married a man of her own social class and sent Fitzgerald a wedding announcement, which he saved. This first romance is reflected in most of his stories such as his first novel, The Romantic Egoist, which was named This Side of Paradise afterward. Ginevra King served as inspiration for the characters…

an ideal Victorian woman when he says “She is one of God’s women, fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth. So true, so sweet, so noble, so little an egoist” saying how she is smart, submissive, and nurturing (Stoker 224). He describes Mina with the highest accolade as one of God’s women. Even though Mina seems to be the most competent in identifying Count Dracula and his weaknesses, putting the…

Our moral duties or actions are often based on the moralities and duties. As studied, two ethical and philosophical theories perfectly explain and study our moral behaviors and thoughts. The two theories are named Utilitarianism which emphasizes on morality based on good and pleasant consequences, and the Deontological theory which in contrary of the Utilitarianism focuses on Duties and rights. In order to put these theories in practice, a situation of a train is given. In fact, I, the train…

politics, in the time of Sparta and Athens, man was not for peace but power. According to Thucydides politics was motivated by the desire for more power according to Dunne and Schmidt the behavior of the state was understood to be a “self-seeking egoist and was a reflection of the characteristics of human beings”…