Reaching For Dreams - A Ballet
.... to rehearse more to make sure that everything was flowing together as if they were one. After seven months of doing this everyday one would think that it would become extremely repetitious, however to the leads, opening night is well worth the wait.
Bright red curtains wave as the dancers file in back stage for the first showing of “Speeds” to start. The dancers are costumed in pure white linen to bring you the feeling of innocence. Everyone is extremely apprehensive about the show as the music begins t .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
.... and emotions that he had. But after two short years of marriage, Ellen died of tuberculosis. Suddenly, the one true person he had in his life was gone. Life was losing it's meaning, and Ralph Waldo Emerson was in need of some answers. This dark period drove him to question his beliefs. Emerson resigned from the Second Church and his profession as a pastor in search for vital truth and hope. But his father and wife were not the only deaths that he had to deal with. His strength and endurance would be put to .....
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Pygmalion
.... is well mannered. This apparent discrepancy between Higgins' actions and his word, may not exist, depending on the interpretation of this theory. There are two possible translations of Higgins' philosophy. It can be viewed as treating everyone the same all of the time or treating everyone equally at a particular time. It is obvious that Higgins does not treat everyone equally all of the time, as witnessed by his actions when he is in "one of his states" (as Mrs. Higgins' parlor maid calls it). The .....
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Pride And Prejudice By Jane Au
.... and status in society. Because of her pride and prejudice Caroline falsely believes that she can sour Darcy’s feelings for Elizabeth by commenting on her low social status. Because of her prejudice towards those of "lower status" she believes that such superficial reasons will redirect Darcy’s attention. She does not realize that his affection for Elizabeth is much deeper. The end result is that social status, money, or any other force can not overcome that of love. Caroline gives up her pride to atta .....
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Philosophy - An Enquiry Concer
.... believes in what he wants to do, he will not be able to
motivate the action. In other words, unless the sentiment is there, the action cannot be willed into being.
Hence, the sentiment is the driving force behind the action.
Hume does not however say that reason is incapable of determining wether an action is virtuous
or vicious (moral or immoral), but instead he tries to say that the reason for the morality of an action does
not dictate the execution or perversion of an act so far as det .....
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Philosophy Of Jeremy Bentham
.... struggle to do so he pulls her out of the way of a speeding vehicle thus saving her life. This act, although it started with mischievous intent, ended with a life being saved and surely produced the greatest amount of happiness for the old lady. In the utilitarian eye this act is morally acceptable and right due to the fact that happiness was produced.
Jeremy Bentham was a utilitarian philosopher with his own version of this particular of this teleological view called "Quantitative Utilitarianism". Ben .....
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Philosophy - The Only Truth Ex
.... what we
sense and see. But it is our sense of reason and logic, our idea of reality, and our
perceptions, that may likely to be very wrong. Subjectiveness, or personal belief, is almost
always, liable for self-contradiction. Besides the established truth that we exist, there are
no other truths that are certain, for the fact that subjective truth may be easily refuted.
Every person possesses his or her own truth that may be contradicting to another person’s
belief. A truth, or one that is true .....
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Philosophy - Socrates View Of
.... of the true
and ultimate objectives of love. Socrates states that, “Love is the conciousness of
a need for a good not yet acquired or possessed.” In other words we want what
we do not have, and at times cannot have. Love for Socrates is a superficial
occurrence and only based on the things in life that seem to be pleasing to the eye.
But in the times when The Symposium was written that tended to be the case more
often than not.
No one is in need of what they already have. To possess something to .....
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Philosophy - Socrates
.... they must remove them selves of all
distractions. These not only include physical distractions, but they include mental distractions and bodily
distractions as well. Philosophers must get used to viewing and examining the world with out any senses.
Senses merely hinder and obscure the truth. Sight for example can be fooled easily with optical illusions
which occur normally in nature. Sound can be very distracting as well when a philosopher is trying to
concentrate. All of these cloud th .....
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Philosophy - Plato
.... the success of this
adventure although he felt he could not refuse this opportunity of putting his ideas to a test. It
did not work out for Plato and he returned to Athens in 360 B.C. He then devoted himself to
teaching and lecturing at the Academy. He died at age 80 in Athens in 348 B.C. Before his
death Plato completed the Sophist, the Politicus, the Philebus, the Timaeus and finally the Laws.
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DIALOGUES
The Symposium is the most widely read of Plato's dialogues with the exception .....
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Philosophy - Mills Utilitarian
.... utilitarians would weigh the pleasure and pain which would
be caused by the bomb exploding against the pleasure and pain that would
be caused by torturing the terrorist. Then, the amounts would be summed
and compared. The problem with this method is that it is impossible to
know beforehand how much pain would be caused by the bomb exploding or
how much pain would be caused by the torture. Utilitarianism offers no
practical way to make the interpersonal comparison of utility necessary
to compar .....
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Philosophy - Kants Universal L
.... easily
imagine a world in which paramedics always answer widows truthfully when
queried. Therefore, this maxim is logical and everyone can abide by it
without causing a logical impossibility. The next logical step is to
apply the second stage of the test.
The second requirement is that a rational being would will this maxim
to become a universal law. In testing this part, you must decide whether
in every case, a rational being would believe that the morally correct
action is to tell the truth. Fi .....
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Philosophy - Hume
.... He could only define it as a
true miracle if this dead man were to come back to life. This
would be a miraculous event because such an experience has not
yet been commonly observed. In which case, his philosophical
view of a miracle would be true.
Hume critiques and discredits the belief in a miracle
merely because it goes against the laws of nature. Hume
defines the laws of nature to be what has been “uniformly”
observed by mankind, such as the laws of identity and gravity.
He views .....
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Philosophy - Davide Hume
.... is a cause. Hume said that even though the cause preceded the effect, there is no proof that the cause is responsible for the effect's occurence.
Mr. Hume was a firm believer that the human mind invented nothing. Instead, he claimed, the human mind takes simple ideas, and turns them into complex ideas. A simple example of this is the idea of an angel. Angels are human figures with wings. What Hume claimed that an angel is formed of two simple ideas, the human figure and wings.
A more complicated exam .....
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Philosophy - Absolute Understa
.... encounter. Because individuals
has his or her own sense of reason and logic, the perceptions that people encounter are
ultimately true, and not false. Life does not contain one truth for any idea or object, but
truths can be found in one’s perception. It is difficult to determine that anything is the
absolute truth. One should not prove that any object contains a true meaning, but should
develop conceptions surrounding the object.
Attempting to prove anything then would be difficult, if not imp .....
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