Throughout history‚ people had made numerous futile attempts to create an Utopian society. The term "Utopia" depicts on an imaginary ideal state. Such a state is describe in The Giver. In The Giver‚ Jonas’s community believes in the renunciation of personal properties‚ rights‚ one’s unique characteristics and of binding personal relationships (such as marriage). This society is believed to be perfect‚ free of pain and sorrow; everything is under control and "same". This serene society greatly contradict
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Leona Take LARS 3155 10 February 2013 Kant and Hegel Hegel’s concept of the “Absolute Idea” claims that there is a universal and ideal standard that is continuously being revealed throughout history‚ in various forms of human expression. The Absolute Idea can be interpreted as God‚ nature‚ spirit‚ or reality. With art‚ there is no such thing as “Art for Art’s sake” because art is a manifestation of the unfolding of the Absolute Idea. In Hegel’s Art History‚ the progression of art is always
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Immanuel Kant and Transcendental Idealism David Hume shook the foundations of Epistemology and once again left philosophers baffled with where to turn next. The choices were either to agree with Descartes’ rationalism and accept solipsism or an appeal to a loving God‚ agree with Locke’s style of empiricism‚ Berkeley’s Epistemological approach‚ or simply concede that Hume’s extreme skepticism and ultimately solipsist view of knowledge was the most accurate. However‚ Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was
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Fitzgerald condemns his readers to the knowledge that the American dream is not the key to eudemonia but rather the stair way which once started upon leads inescapably to destruction. When we refuse to accept reality‚ we lose it completely. The notion of the American dream is a primary concern in the novel. Coincidentally Fitzgerald shows it to be just that. A dream. The frequent‚ yet subtle references to theatre‚ fantasy and ideals throughout the novel reinforce this. Like any ideal‚ it is flawed
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All My Sons is about how we deal with the pressures that are put on us by family and society. Miller dramatizes this in Keller’s and Chris’s different views about personal and social responsibility. Keller believes that he is only answerable to his family and that his war crimes ought to be excused because he did it to save his family from ruin. Chris‚ on the other hand‚ believes in social responsibility - that we must care about society and that we are responsible for the well-being of all members
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In feudalism there was a separation of classes‚ such as the peasants from the kings and the noblemen from the middle class. “Each individual has his position; he knows‚ on the whole what a lawful and honorable course of conduct it is.” (Baird 76). Shown by this quote‚ there is still an ethical statute of status in society one must have. How Hegel would put why people would be segregated into different classes is because conformity is part of universal reason in which humans are human agents of universal
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DECAY OF IDEALISM IN PAKISTAN Pakistan emerged on the world map on basic of the idea envisioned by the intellect of Iqbal and succeeded by the astute and far-sighted leadership of Jinnah which lead to the establishment of an perfect democratic state‚ a separate homeland for Muslims of the subcontinent. This is how the “practice of forming and pursuing an ideal” was made by these extraordinary men. In the words of this extraordinary mentor for all Pakistanis‚ Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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philosophy focuses on the nature of reality. Metaphysics attempts to find unity across the domains of experience and thought. At the metaphysical level‚ there are four* broad philosophical schools of thought that apply to education today. They are idealism‚ realism‚ pragmatism (sometimes called experientialism)‚ and existentialism. Each will be explained shortly. These four general frameworks provide the root or base from which the various educational philosophies are derived. * A fifth metaphysical
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Play analysis "Arms and the Man" By Bernard Shaw "Arms and the Man" starts with gunfire on a dark street in a small town. The romantic and willful Raina is about to begin her true-life adventure by sheltering the handsome fugitive Bluntschli‚ enemy of her equally handsome fiancé Sergius The setting of the play is in war-torn Bulgaria‚ and focuses not only on the romance between the young people of the play‚ but the atrocities that go on during war times and the ability of people not so very
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In the short story “Silver Pavements‚ Golden Roofs”‚ the author Chitra Divakaruni highlights and enhances the theme of how Jayanti’s high class and wealthy background sets her up for high expectations of living the American Dream but later on disappoint her. Jayanti’s mindset initially presents an optimistic future and more idealistic view of America‚ but upon her arrival this idealistic view slowly begins to deteriorate by her uncle’s view of America. This idea raises the question of how does Jayanti’s
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