Transcendence

The Brotherhood promises the narrator the transcendence of race, but reveals the actual “best interest” of an institution, sacrificing the individual. The “best interest” of an institution, including The Brotherhood, means to sacrifice the individual and their interests, sometimes non-consensually, for the benefit of the greater plan. Disoriented, the narrator wanders the streets and almost collapses causing a woman called Mary to take him in. One night, as an elderly black couple face eviction,…

Chinese culture known as the Daodejing was thought to be a hallowed book for the Daoist belief and many presume that it was Lao Tzu who wrote it. A tradition within the religion is to be at one with the Dao, which means the way, and strive for transcendence or physical immortality. At the heart of their religion, they hold qi to be the most significant term in their perspective. Qi essentially means life or energy, and shares aspects of spirituality along with physicality. Daoism is not…

With "no ritual, no dogma, no tradition, no theology, and above all, no sense of spiritual transcendence" (117). Everything that has made religion significant to society over time was erased from these programs. He suggest that everything is not “televisible". The next two chapters, Postman applies his theory that the media-metaphor of television…

The Situation comes in part IV of Sartre’s Being and Nothingness and aims to explain how it is that one can be free in the face of the deterministic nature of our existence. This essay aims to explain how Sartre sees that there are aspects of existence which can be seen to restrict one's freedom, but under an ontological freedom these restrictions are nonexistent. These restrictions are referred to by existentialism as ‘facticitcity’ meaning the objective fact about the external world which are…

These extended models have instead been inferred by others from Maslow's work. Specifically Maslow refers to the needs Cognitive, Aesthetic and Transcendence (subsequently shown as distinct needs levels in some interpretations of his theory) as additional aspects of motivation, but not as distinct levels in the Hierarchy of Needs. Where Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is shown with more than five levels…

Test Question 3(B) Erik Erikson claims that human development follows the epigenetic principle. This principle states that humans develop through a predetermined unfolding of personalities over eight stages which are a development of Freud’s psychosexual development. The progress through these stages are in part determined by the success, or lack of success in previous stages. These stages are as follows: Trust vs. Mistrust, Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt, Initiative vs. Guilt, Industry vs.…

The worst president the United States ever had to been William Jefferson Clinton, commonly known as Bill Clinton, the 42nd president from 1993-2001. He was born in 1946 in Hope, Arkansas, and is one of the few one percent that made it from rags to riches. He graduated from Georgetown University, attended Oxford University, and earned a law degree from Yale University (Hamilton, 2003). His profession as a lawyer led to his political career. In 1974, Clinton became a Democratic leader in the U.S.…

In Chinese philosophy, the concept of the Dao or The Way appears frequently. Even within a specific text, such as the Laozi, the idea of The Way wavers from chapter to chapter. Nevertheless, out of all the seemingly contradictory explanations, the meaning of the Dao arises. While Chapter 1 expresses the most accurate understanding of The Way through its’ description and syntax, other passages such as Chapter 4 and Chapter 25 support and expand the interpretation, respectively. For the Laozi to…

“The melancholy of those black days has left so long a shadow that it darkens the path of years that have since gone by. These sad memories rise above those of smoothly grinding school days.” This quotation depicts the emotions of many young Native American students that attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The infamous boarding school was opened in 1880, to assimilate the Native people of the “white” country that was once theirs. Carlisle had a prodigious significance in the…

Modern day society is comprised of humans who have progressed from the original state of nature. In this civilization process, inequalities of rank, power, wealth and sexes have resulted. For Rousseau, the activation of the dormant reason, as the society emerged from the state of nature to civil state gave rise to the inequalities. While Rousseau blames the reason, Wollstonecraft arguing for the women, encourages them to use reason to bring down the oppression, which is largely due to deficient…