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- 391: The Awakening 3
- ... change. With time, Kant noted, the person who devotes their life to reason finds themselves needing a release, in the end despising reason, and eventually pursuing only their true happiness. In keeping with Kant s philosophy, Edna s life has been riddled with reason and duty, essentially giving herself away to the people around her. This devotion to those people causes her to break away from her normal life and moves ... man should live for himself. Every man should live in pursuit of his abilities. Selfish? Most certainly. Every man has a right to exist for himself- and not to sacrifice himself for others. Further, her philosophy states that working for another s good or sacrificing yourself for another s happiness goes against the very nature of existence. Edna was not engaged in the pursuit of her finest abilities. She lived her ...
- 392: Carl Gustav Jung
- ... of his spells. After Carl found out about his father's concern, the faints suddenly stopped, and Carl became much more studious. He had to decide his profession. His choices included archeology, history, medicine, and philosophy. He decided to go into medicine, partly because of his grandfather. Carl went to the University of Basel and had to decide then what field of medicine he was going to go into. After reading ... with his "Psychological Types," a famous work. He went on several trips to learn about primitive societies and archetypes to Africa, New Mexico to study Pueblo Indians, and to India and Ceylon to study eastern philosophy. He studied religious and occult beliefs like I Ching, a Chinese method of fortune telling. Alchemy was also one of his interests. His book, "Psychology and Alchemy," published in 1944 is among his most important ...
- 393: Lazzaro Spallanzani
- ... looked into problems of physics,chemistry, geology, and meteorology, and volcanology (Gillispie,1). After attending a local school, Spallazani went at afe fifteen to a Jesuit seminary in Reggio Emilia where he dominated in rhetoric, philosophy, and languages. He left Reggio Emilia in 1749 to study jurisprudence at the ancient University of Bologna, where he expanded is education in mathematics, chemistry, natural history, and aquired a knowledge of French (Asimov,1). For three years he worked toward his docterine in law. In 1753 or 1754 he became a doctor of philosophy. Then, he recieved instructions in metaphysics and theology and took minor orders. Within a few years he became a priest and added himself to two congregations in Modena (Gillispie,2). Spallanzani, in hundreds of experiments ...
- 394: The Joy Luck Club 2
- ... Yin and Yang are the symbol of the interaction and conjoining of polar opposites, the positive and negative, the male and the female, each of which contains the essence of the other. Taoism as a philosophy must be distinguished from popular Taoism as practiced in China (Chan, 26). This popular Taoism is roughly equivalent to New Age spiritualism in the West, a system of "magic" correspondences and beliefs more akin to folklore than philosophy (Corless, 2/18/92). Appendix II: Confucianism Confucius was a minor official in the Lu province (c. 500 BCE) whose Analects, or sayings on the topic of virtue, became adopted as the political and social ...
- 395: Charles Manson: Orgins of a Madman
- ... once again. Several arrests for car theft and pimping followed; in 1960 Charles was given ten years imprisonment for forging government checks. While he was serving his ten year sentence at McNeil Penitentiary, he studied philosophy, took up guitar, and taught himself sing and compose songs. His newfound musical skills would later attract followers. His study of philosophy helped create some of his outlandish ideas that later appealed to his would-be followers. Manson was released in March, 1967 after serving seven years. By the time Manson was thirty-two years old, he ...
- 396: The Joy Luck Club
- ... Yin and Yang are the symbol of the interaction and conjoining of polar opposites, the positive and negative, the male and the female, each of which contains the essence of the other. Taoism as a philosophy must be distinguished from popular Taoism as practiced in China (Chan, 26). This popular Taoism is roughly equivalent to New Age spiritualism in the West, a system of "magic" correspondences and beliefs more akin to folklore than philosophy (Corless, 2/18/92). Appendix II: Confucianism Confucius was a minor official in the Lu province (c. 500 BCE) whose Analects, or sayings on the topic of virtue, became adopted as the political and social ...
- 397: Liberaliam
- ... economics, and technology. Also, a new class structure was introduced in the nineteenth century. Some of the liberals included John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hill Green, L.T. Hobhouse, David Riccardo, and Herbert Spencer. "In political philosophy, the works of John Stuart Mill stand as the supreme monument to a tolerant and balanced brand of liberalism." (A History of Europe, p.803) Mill advocates laissez-faire economics. In his essay, On Liberty ... economics, and technology. Also, a new class structure was introduced in the nineteenth century. Some of the liberals included John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hill Green, L.T. Hobhouse, David Riccardo, and Herbert Spencer. "In political philosophy, the works of John Stuart Mill stand as the supreme monument to a tolerant and balanced brand of liberalism." (A History of Europe, p.803) Mill advocates laissez-faire economics. In his essay, On Liberty ...
- 398: Jimi Hendrix
- ... happening; in the vortex of this apocalyptic transcendence stands Hendrix, beating off on his guitar and defiantly proclaiming if the mountains fell in the sea, let it be, it ain t me. Such cocky pop philosophy shall not go unrewarded (21). Axis: Bold As Love represented the change of Hendrix from not just Top 40 hit-maker, but also complete acceptance by those who judge most harshly, the critics. Miller also ... 22). Hendrix biographer Charles Shaar Murray said this of Voodoo Chile in his book Crosstown Traffic: The relationship between the blues and Voodoo as a hold-over from West African religious and mystical practice and philosophy has been the subject of at least one first-class book- length study..., but in the context of the life and work of Jimi Hendrix, it is worth reiterating that his self- identification as the ...
- 399: Edward James Hughes
- ... no longer metaphysically solitary as in the earlier books, but “becomes a part of nature and through it of the whole of Universe” (6:417). I. Varnaite points out the influence of Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy on Hughes's verse. According to her, “many poems translate a number of Schopenhauer's theses into the language of modernistic poetry” (4:61). Robert Stuart interprets Hughes' works in the light of Nitzscheanism, while ... a complex one and cannot be one-sidedly simplified to one philosophical school. Among possible influences she mentions folklore, myths and religions other than Christianity. However, drawing parallels between Hughes's work and Schopenhauers's philosophy, she writes that, to both of them, “animate and inanimate nature have the same essence and contain the element of the Will of the Universe”. I.Varnaite concludes with the statement that “Hughes is a ...
- 400: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... his first boot, Nature, was published. Nature expressed the main points of Transcendentalism. With this, Ralph Waldo Emerson started the Transcendental Club the same year. This club published a magazine called The Dial, fully promulgating philosophy, literature, and Emerson's truth fearlessly. He was starting to gain recognition. The young were opening their minds, and the old were impressed. Harvard was so impressed of him that ther asked him to give several addresses. In 1837, he gave a well-known address called "The American Scholar" in which he outlined his philosophy of humanism. A year later, he gave another address, called "The Divinity School Address." This argued about Christianity at that time for being too traditional and ritualistic in its ways. These methods didn't fill ...
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