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Essays 271 - 300

Sarte and Descartes Compared

approaches to subjectivity have been characterized by an overwhelming modern anxiety not to be Descartes (206). Descartes pictur...

Philosophy of the Enlightenment and Postmodernism and the Self Concept

that had to be made without conclusively knowing what the correct choices might be (Stack 162). Thus, it can be seen that the Enl...

Utopia and The Republic by Plato

they have the capacity to attain a happy, or perfect, life. Essential to the perfect polis is the individuals capacity to strive ...

Comparative Study of Hinduism and Buddhism

In six pages historical and contemporary perspectives are used to compare these two religions in terms of enlightenment goals, tea...

Eighteenth Century Musical Influences

In four pages this essay examines the impact upon the Enlightenment upon the music of the eighteenth century and how it reflected ...

Enlightenment and Environmental Creation by the Scientific Revolution

and inextricably a branch of religion. Beginning with the radical Copernicus, who taught that the earth revolved around the sun, E...

The Definition of a Sacred Text

the principal sacred texts of the various religions, and what forms do they take? What are the liturgical, intellectual, political...

Philosophy of the Enlightenment in Candide by Voltaire

In five pages this paper discusses how the Enlightenment optimistic philosophy is represented by Voltaire in Candide. There are n...

Karl Marx and the Enlightenment & Kant’s Hope for the Future

not believe that we should be without kings, but that their power should be limited, "That Kings are not superiors to, but adminis...

Wollstonecraft/Vindication of the Rights of Women

them to this necessity. Wollstonecraft attacks each one of Rousseaus principles, showing them to be illogical, inconsistent and ul...

The Role of Women During the Enlightenment and the Romantic Eras

the Age of Enlightenment was formed, at its core, by "Empiricism and a rationalistic doctrine of natural rights... they also held ...

Elements of a Social Utopia

abide, and making society a clearly structured reality. Now, while this may have been their notion of utopia it was likely that no...

Utopia by Thomas More and Communism

In ten pages the representation of Communism in Thomas More's text is considered. Eight sources are listed in the bibliography....

Reflections of Society in Eighteenth Century Art, Music, and Literature

This paper examines the ways in which Eighteenth Century society is reflected in the art, music, and literature of the period, kno...

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 1779 Play Nathan the Wise

realizing that she is adopted and Christian. This conversation occurs as Nathan is trying to thank him for his actions toward his...

Buddhism's 8 Fold Path and Yoga

In five pages this paper examines Buddhism's 8 Fold Path in this consideration of yoga that analyzes Jack Kornfield's observation ...

Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution Peasant Life

In five pages this paper examines what peasant life was like for a man who lived through the Enlightenment period as well as the I...

Philosophy of an Enlightened Age

In five pages an examination of spiritual and religious enlightenment past and present is considered in a discussion of Foucault's...

Enlightenment and Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican and Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year

In ten pages this research paper compares these works and how they encompass the Enlightenment philosophy. There are no other sou...

An Article on Knowledge and the Gnostics

In seven pages this paper discusses the Gnostics and the enlightenment of knowledge it embraced. Nine sources are cited in the bi...

Hypocritical Title of the 'Scottish Enlightenment'

In 5 pages this paper argues that the so-called Scottish Enlightenment was neither Scottish nor particularly enlightened with Ferg...

Enlightenment Ideals and Military Theory

In twenty five pages this research paper examines how late 18th century military theory was profoundly influenced by the Enlighten...

Contemporary Thinking and the Influence of Existentialism, Romanticism, and the Enlightenment

In five pages this report explores how the schools of philosophical thought that characterized the Enlightenment have influenced c...

Eighteenth Century Age of Enlightenment and Politics

out to apply the critical method to the problem of government in The Spirit of Laws (1748). The result was a complex comparative s...

European Enlightenment and Literature

concept was that the scientific method was capable of discovering the laws of human society as well as those of nature, consequent...

Immanuel Kant, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Locke and Adam Smith on the Enlightenment

In 5 pages this paper examines the Enlightenment contributions made by Kant regarding morality concepts, Wollstonecraft regarding ...

'Enlightened' Satire of Voltaire and Jonathan Swift

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Swift and Voltaire satirized 18th century Enlightenment philosophies in their literary works. ...

Evolution of Art During the Enlightenment

In five pages this paper discusses how classical art and its balance, simplicity, and order evolved during the Enlightenment era. ...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Themes of Youth and Death

In five pages Mark Twain's novel is examined in terms of the argument that the death of youth is represented as the demise of thre...

The Enlightenment in America by Ernest Cassara

In five pages this text is examined in a discussion of enlightenment philosophy as represented by Rousseau, Hume, and Locke. Ther...