The Nature of Love: Plato’s Symposium
Walter Trentadue What is love? One of the problems with trying to define love is that we often end up using the word love itself in the definition. This is a fundamental problem. According to […]
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Love and Divinity: Plato’s Symposium
Paul Otake Socrates, through Diotima, says that every soul is pregnant and the ultimate end every person seeks is immortality. The pursuit of knowledge cannot go on forever because the knowledge we obtain is soon […]
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“Judging Finely” – A Philosophical Look at Euripides’ Medea
Claudia Echevarria Written by Euripides in 431 BCE, the Hellenic Age of Greece, Medea is a play that shocks by addressing cutting edge issues in a time when outsiders and women were considered inferior to […]
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Jonathan Swift: Proto Feminist
Jonathan Swift in his writing often mentions the female body with repugnance. He very often dwells with exaggerated horror both at the sight of a woman’s body performing its normal bodily functions or and at […]
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Cervantes On the Nature of Individuality
Robert Jablonsky Although a one of the greatest, if not the greatest comic novel ever written, Don Quixote, by Miguel Cervantes is also a masterpiece of serious ideas. One of them, in fact, concerns the […]
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Uses of Humor in Don Quixote
Tracy Wagner This paper will focus on the types of humor used and the role humor plays in Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Specifically, it will analyze Cervantes’ use of parody, satire, irony and slapstick. Cervantes had […]
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Cicero’s Critique of God
Carolyn Horn Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines an agnostic as “a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality as God is unknown and probably unknowable” (23). Cicero, Roman statesman, democrat, rhetorician and lawyer […]
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Anatomy of a Hero
Chad Cheatham Analysts of myths and legends such as Joseph Campbell and Carl G. Jung have discovered that there is a definitive structure used in practically every tale concerning a hero. The structural elements,analysts assert, […]
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Ellison’s Influence and Inspiration for Invisible Man
Barbara Sherman All authors draw upon past experiences, people they have known, places they have been, as well as their own philosophy of life to write. Ralph Ellison, in his book Shadow and Act refers […]
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Racism in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Carol Fosse Critics generally agree that Ralph Ellison’s award winning novel, Invisible Man, is a work of genius, broad in its appeal and universal in its meaning. Its various themes have been stated as: “the […]