The Ruling Passion

Foolish or Honorable? Chris McCandless’s journey outlined by the novel Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer supports that it is simple and indisputable to apprehend that McCandless was not a heroic figure, just one persuaded by inaccurate decisions. McCandless was not your average student, he had a very bright future ahead of him graduating with high honors from one of the country's most prestigious universities; Emory University, however, threw it all down the drain when he took an everlasting…

Purpose of secret closet Dimmesdale has peculiar night activities. Hidden from the public eye, Dimmesdale practices mortification of the flesh in his “secret closet” as his way of coping with his guilty conscious. “In Mr. Dimmesdale 's secret closet, under lock and key, there was a bloody scourge. [Dimmesdale] plied it on his own shoulders; laughing bitterly at himself the while, and smiting so much the more pitilessly, because of that bitter laugh” (132). The poor minister suffered from…

Returning to the greek root of the word, the aristocracy was the ruling class of the best and most noble people; the original idea for early European aristocracy was based on the best warfare ability. However, the prominence of the new courtly values made martial ability subservient to the elegance and charming that now…

Italian Renaissance (ital. Rinascimento-"rebirth" or "born again") – a period in the history of European culture, which replaced the culture of the Middle Ages and the previous culture of modern times. Renaissance art emerged based on humanism-- currents of public thought, which originated in the XIV century. In Italy, and then during the second half of the XV and XVI centuries spread to other European countries. Humanism is proclaimed the highest value of man and his benefit. The followers of…

Men enter society when their preservations of property are guaranteed (Locke 213). With this in mind Locke contends that authority must be confined by laws. This can be seen when the author writes, “the ruling power ought to govern by declared and received laws and not by extemporary dictates…for than mankind will be in a far worse condition than in the State of Nature” (Locke 213). Therefore, Locke proposes that individuals empower the state through mutual…

Hegel is committed to dialectical progress of time, and he is a determist. He believes that history follows a specific path that is predetermined by the purposeful movement through time. Nothing happens by chance according to Hegel, which eliminates things happening by chance yet contingency does consist in the world. Therefore, he believed that if anything did happen by chance it did not matter. Hegel seeks the first principles of nature, and does not judge through objective facts or outside…

tradition and law, the paterfamilias (the father) had the right to the household and made all the decisions. The paterfamilias was the only person who had patria potestas which was the right of life and death over his family. Since men had the over ruling power over his family, the women had very little say over her own life. Since birth, women had their decisions made for them. Similarly, men had a duty which he needed to fill. For example, men had the pressure of honoring his family as…

infrastructure. This allowed them to put the money saved towards other necessities of the empire. The second quote given by historian Hugh Kennedy was, “By converting to the new religion of Islam, conquered people could move to being conquerors, members of new ruling class, and equal to all other Muslims”(Source 3 Excerpt 2). According to this excerpt, for the people, being conquered was somewhat beneficial for them. The conquerors were promoting peace and equality, making conversion very…

A LEADERSHIP STUDY OF ABU BAKR AS-SIDDIQ “If you will not aid him (the Prophet), Allah certainly aided him when those who disbelieved expelled him; he (the Prophet) had no more than him, him being the second of the two (i.e. Abu Bakr), when they were both in the cave, when he (the Prophet) said to his companion (Abu Bakr): ‘Grieve not, surely Allah is with us.’ Then Allah caused His Sakinah (serenity, peace, tranquility, etc.) to descend upon him (Abu Bakr)” Quran, 9:40 1.0…

The Curse of Brutus’ Honor The concept of a tragic hero dates back to the ancient Greek times when Aristotle defined the characteristics of the idea. Aristotle defines a calamitous hero as a character of noble birth or a high-ranking and a well-respected individual in his society. However, these traits also include a flaw or weakness of character that leads to the hero now having a false perception of his actions and reality in general. This imperfection and false assumption results in…