Transcendence

Discussing art can be a difficult task due to the complexities intertwined with a topic that encompasses many aspects of human life. Art has been defined and redefined throughout history by some of the prominent minds who still influence our thinking today. While conversations about influential topics are necessary in the human condition, we should decipher which philosophers’ points are the closest to accuracy in today’s time period. In our current society, Hume’s perspective on art, however…

Examination 4 During the early and mid-twentieth century, America was viewed as a militant powerhouse to be reckoned with. Although America was respected for its military by foreign countries, the country faced its own racial struggles. These struggles were seen and ridiculed by foreign countries, especially by Russia. Porgy and Bess was sent to Russia to not only regulate the communist agenda but also to show Russia and the world that America took care of the blacks in its country. Although…

In a time when ideology and convictions were shaped by the church, a new ideology was on the horizon that would begin the revolutionary transformation of the western world into what we know as the renaissance period. This new way of thought was brought about due to certain doctrines of the Catholic church that was viewed as uncanonical and dogmatic. The idealistic movement of Renaissance humanism’s spread throughout first Florence and then western Europe was greatly due to men with common…

“The Long Way Home” by David Laskin Immigration to America was a common scenario in the early twentieth century. People moved to the United States from different parts of the world, a majority of them belonged to the non-English speaking world except for the Irish. Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and China arrived in the United States in large numbers for many reasons, such as lack of opportunity, social disorganization, lack of religious freedom, rampant civil war…

The study of “the self” in philosophy is often concentrated around the idea of existence. To understand what it is to “be” means realizing a universal mentality in a singular human life. Jean-Paul Sartre addresses his perspective primarily through phenomenology and the concept of free will. He claims, to be human is to be depicted by “an existence that precedes its essence” (Sartre 318). In this paper, I will argue for Sartre’s theory of existentialism by analyzing human consciousness and…

Are products a symbol of people’s living? Society always pushes people to exercise customs that not all people are interested in, but consumers follow other people custom to belong to certain groups. Furthermore, In the articles such as “No Logo.” and “The Buyologist Is In: The Rise of Neuromarketing.” emphasize the ideas that people’s main reason to buy products could be because of the sentiment a product triggers about their identity and what a brand symbolizes in their lives. Although these…

body. (Monkey 282) The travelers have worked together to reach this blessed land, and there is no doubt in their minds that they would have failed long ago had it not been for the aide of their compatriots. Monkey here is wiser than before his transcendence, and speaking from a place of wisdom he shows that one of the truest underlying tones of the novel is this necessity of companionship on the journey to enlightenment; no one reaches Nirvana alone. The crossing of the wide river is a short…

The Author, Alan Paton, is a dedicated and opinionated Christian, linking his writing to his beliefs. Since he was born, he has been a Catholic, giving him a deep religious background. Because of his deep Catholic background and what he’s done because of it, Bishop Clayton named him a member of a diocesan commission appointed ‘to discover what it believed to be ‘the mind of South Africa””(Callan, 35). He also developed a strong conscience because of his theological virtuesd. “Because I am…

Pursuit of Happiness What is happiness and how do we measure it? We mostly know when we are happy and when we are not happy. But, is there a way to achieve happiness if we are not? People define happiness in so many different ways and also prescribe variety ways to achieve happiness (Taber). Are there some specific ways that make human in general happy or the way might work not depends on the individual? Different individuals pursued happiness in different paths in these movies Groundhog Day,…

understanding, including nonhuman animals in crip politics falls short in practice. Despite Prince-Hughes’ useful take on collective reimagining, as described by Kafer in Feminist, Queer, Crip, her focus on nonhuman animals subsequently assumes a transcendence of race. In such discourse, the failure to acknowledge the historical equating of people of color to animals reveals…