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Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche on Joy, Will, and Knowledge

knowledge is not as important as faith. That is a significant difference between the two. At the same time, neither admits that hu...

Religion, Sumerians, and Hebrews

main gods of the Sumerians included the god of water (Enki); the god of earth (Ki); the god of air (Enlil) and the god of heaven (...

Overview of Engineering Ethics

been utilized in the protection of public interest, especially when issues of safety can be impacted by widespread public response...

Pledge of Allegiance and 'God'

As would be expected there has been a great deal of outcry about this particular ruling. For example, one senator stated, "This is...

Cosmological Argument of David Hume

with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...

Overview of Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

Objective and Formal Reality According To Descartes

capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...

Religion Exploration

America, they worked very hard to convert the Native American Indians, who obviously did not believe in Jesus Christ. The new set...

'Image of God' and Humanity Implications

of this passage implies that humanity resembles God, that is, that the human race is similar "in kind" in a manner that is analogo...

'The Odyssey' by Homer, the Gods, and Odysseus

journey home to his wife Penelope and son Telemakhos in Ithaka. The gods and goddesses also shape the poem structurally, and are ...

A Comparative View of Female Protagonists

changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...

Larry Julian's God is My CEO

there is more to earning a paycheck but the individual needs to search themselves to find out what their priorities are and what p...

Comparing Emily Dickinson and Anne Bradstreet

of this in the following lines which use that imagery in the comparisons: "Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,/ Who afte...

Literary Fiction and Self Discovery

they move to a town that Joe commences to alter. He opens a store and becomes incredibly prosperous, but insists that Janie never ...

Delores Williams' Sisters in the Wilderness

"Faith, hard won, has taught me how to value the gains, losses, stand-offs and victories in my life" (ix)...

Character of God Revealed in Joshua's Death and Abraham's Call

God Abraham received was detailed in Genesis as follows: "Go forth from your native land / And from your fathers house / And I wil...

B.C. Johnson's Philosophy

to the theist these two elements are not inherently intertwined with one another. The baby did burn in the fire and the baby will...

Existence of God in Swinburne, Rowe, and Hume

"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...

Existence of God and Proof

Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, not in the realm...

The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong

radicalism and there is no way of rationally communicating our way out of entanglements with those having this mindset. H...

Andrew Marvell's 'The Garden'

man knows truth. How can this be? It is through the very essence of man, through the essence of the tree and of flowers and of dog...

Gods and Goddesses of Greece and Rome

does provoke Didos suicide one has to question to what extent he would embrace the label of hero. At the same time, besides the in...

Comparing Indian Hinduism with Chinese Taoism and Confucianism

in actuality are very different in ideology. It is important to clarify in our discussion of this relationship that the terms "Ta...

Concept of God

Science. But the absence of humanness to the drawing does not make the picture less perfect. It may nonetheless be a perfect depic...

Evaluating the Sacrifice of Cain

In five pages this paper considers why God rejected Cain's sacrifice by using a variety of different concepts through which to exa...

Theme Treatment in an Example of Creative Writing

screen. He ran his fingers through his hair. At what point was it a sin to work? Perhaps his resultant weight loss was a sign from...

Critically Analyzing M. Scott Peck's Positions

Then M. Scott Peck comes along and tells them that this is to be expected and so, this self-help book begins at a level that is ra...

Discussion of Christology

the christologies of the New Testament. Two of the most significant approaches are that of Paul and John. Maas (2004) points out...

Poets Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman

therefore sees the differences between the two as being "artificial" - Dickinson was reclusive, and ridden with doubt, whereas Whi...

To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck and the Rock's Purpose

significant for him, and he can not put everything into the hands of nature in order to continually profit from his land. In the e...