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- 701: Dante's Inferno: The Guardians of the Inferno
- ... the symbol of ultimate treachery because he eats the treacherous Cassius, Brutus, and Judas. Lucifer is crying and he is not active, but rather extremely passive. He is the symbol of anything that is Anti-Christianity. His wings are symbol of a distorted angelic properties - he is an extremely distorted version of an angel with 2 arms and 4 wings. He is not powerful, but is subject to God's punishment ...
- 702: Existentialism in the Early 19th Century
- ... of tragic pessimism and the life-affirming individual will that opposes itself to the moral conformity of the majority. In contrast to Kierkegaard, whose attack on conventional morality led him to advocate a radically individualistic Christianity, Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God and went on to reject the entire Judeo-Christian moral tradition in favor of a heroic pagan ideal. Heidegger Heidegger, like Pascal and Kierkegaard, reacted against an attempt to ...
- 703: Shamanism
- ... the external pressures that shamansim might have been experiencing over the years. Shamanism has been interpreted as a set of rituals, maybe, it is time to view it as a religion. Just as Islam and Christianity have undergone through external pressures, surely shamanism must have experienced its share of influences. Especially those inflicted via centuries of contact with other cultures at different levels of development than their own that would have ...
- 704: Ferdinand Magellan
- ... on to the Philippines. Magellan and his crew remained in the Philippines for several weeks, and close relations developed between them and the islanders. Magellan took special pride in converting many of the people to Christianity. Unfortunately, however, he involved himself in rivalries among the people. On April 27, 1521, Magellan was killed when he took part in a battle between rival Filipino groups on the island of Mactan. After the ...
- 705: Prostitution
- ... Parents do not want their children to grow up thinking that prostitution is acceptable. Worse yet, parents do not want to hear their children say, "When I grow up, I want to be a prostitute." Christianity also looks down upon prostitution because according to their beliefs, the act of sex is only to be done when a man and a women are in love and married. Monogamy is to be practiced ...
- 706: Legacies: Roman, Greeks, and Hebrews
- ... as a useful way to fight and transport armies across seas. The main legacy of the Hebrews was religion. They brought in the idea of monotheism which is still used today in religions such as Christianity and Judaism. The Hebrews governement was very much based on religion and the laws passed to them by God. The Ten Commandments were passed to the Hebrews by God, and those were the laws that ...
- 707: Immanuel Kant
- ... immoral. The Formula of the End deals with ends and means. Kant states that you must not treat people as means to your own end, but as ends in themselves. It would be similar to Christianity's 'Golden Rule' except for the Universalisability Principle. The example of this is suicide. The 'Golden Rule' does not apply in this case, because when a person commits suicide, he does not treat others in ...
- 708: Sigumand Freud and Nietzsche: Personalities and The Mind
- ... as well as Nietzsche's affinity for the music of his close friend Richard Wagner. What Nietzsche presented in this work was a pagan mythology for those who could accept neither the traditional values of Christianity nor those of Social Darwinism (Salter, 41-42). It can be visibly ascertained that by binary opposition, Nietzsche, as well as Freud, can thus now reveal to us our split personalities. "Much will have been ...
- 709: An Analysis of British Literature
- ... God/ For a soul overflowing with sin, and nothing/ Hidden on earth rises to Heaven." This poem reflected an Anglo-Saxon monk's views of the afterlife, which were centered around his strong faith in Christianity. During the Medieval Period, the Catholic church played a dominant role in society. In England, the church's abbeys and monasteries were the main centers of learning and the arts before the founding of Oxford ...
- 710: My Personal Search for a Meaningful Existence
- ... applied to the crisis of valuation that now infects our Western culture. Friederich Nietzsche, the famous German existentialist philosopher, predicted that the traditional European system of beliefs, which are primarily derived from the teachings of Christianity and Greek Philosophy, would be questioned, and subsequently abandoned during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He believed that with the widespread proliferation of education people would start exercising their free-will, and temporarily abandon ...
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