struggled for the previous century are at this time given answers in frank‚ straight‚ everyday words‚ gift-wrapped in pledge of worldwide attainability and hope. The Celestine Prophecy touches genuine‚ extensively experienced trouble: tiredness of rationalism‚ ideological uncertainty‚ existential anguish‚ appetite for obscurity‚ and respect for deity‚ the longing for hope and reason and
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The impact of the Industrial Revolution on literature The impact of the Industrial Revolution on literature was major. It was a major change on the literature‚ but also in agriculture‚ manufacturing‚ mining‚ and transport. Great Britain’s Industrial Revolution began during the mid-18th century and lasted until the turn of the 20th century. The Industrial Revolution in England was characterized by the replacement of manual labor by machines‚ the emergence of large-scale manufacturing‚ the modernization
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The enlightenment brought with it the notion of rationalism‚ a secular ideology through which the human condition could be explained by science rather than by religious faith. A prominent figure of the enlightenment was Pierre Bayle (1647-1706)‚ who studied religious past and concluded that there were discrepancies
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theory of knowledge‚ which promises both direct evidence and indirect experience of God or Reality—the former by intuition or immediate experience and the latter by reflective thought. Rationalism‚ though not admired‚ is not wholly condemned and discarded by him. On the contrary‚ according to him‚ if rationalism is not divorced from concrete reality‚ it represents truth. This is visible from his own attitude and is also betrayed by his admiration for prophets and mystics and non-mystic rationalists
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homogeneity‚ and that the demand for cultural homogeneity‚ and the state apparatus to provide it‚ is what drives nationalism. Ernest Gellner was a philosopher and a social anthropologist. He was once referred to as a “one-man crusade for critical rationalism”. He produced many works that have prompted deep thought. His first book Words and Things‚ A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology caused a month long correspondence on the letters page of The Times of London. He spent
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Even though most people believe that the jury system is a necessity to having a fair trial‚ I believe the exact opposite. I believe that the jury is made up of 12 people that have no clue what they are even doing there. Ben Shapiro‚ a writer from The Patriot Post once wrote‚” The problem with juries is that they are generally composed of the 12 people stupid enough to get out of jury duty.” I say that if we want to keep the jury system around‚ we have to make improvement to it. We need to educate
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films are surrealistic settings ‚ distorted landscapes ‚ heavy use of light and shadow ‚ dreamlike‚ depressing atmosphere‚ and themes of horror‚ death‚ and dark fantasy. Their goal: to liberate the mind of the individual from the oppression that rationalism imposed on an industrial society -- an oppression that became more and more powerful as the National Socialists grew in power." (Art & Culture Network) In addition to the German directors who fled to Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s‚ many German
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Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes blazoned the advent of a scientific civilization. Both men ridiculed earlier methods of seeking knowledge‚ that were once used in the academic traditions of the universities founded in the Middle Ages. Both men published between 1620 and 1640 and held to the belief that Medieval or Aristotelian methods were retrograding and worthless. Through their works they stressed that truth was something we find at the end‚ after a long process of investigation‚ experiment‚ or
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was an intellectual orientation that was instilled in many works of literature‚ painting‚ music etc. in Western civilization between the 1790’s and 1840’s It was a rejection of the precepts of order‚ calm‚ physical materialism‚ and 18th century rationalism Instead it was a celebration of the power of the imagination‚ the development of nationalistic pride‚ the individual‚ the emotional and the transcendental. It embraced human emotion and passion before rationality A celebration of nature‚ of the
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one must believe in order to understand; faith‚ however‚ can be based on reason. For Christian dogmas were indisputable truth‚ he‚ however‚ held that they should be rationally understood‚ so as to strengthen the believer’s faith. In this way his rationalism was subordinated to fideism. His Contributions: 1. Monologion (Sololiguz) and Proslogion (Discourse)‚ these are various arguments proving God’s existence. a. Monologion (Sololiguz) The Monologion‚ written in 1077‚ includes an argument for
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