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Soul Searching
Philosophical soul searching is never ending, but I suppose happiness, despair, and evil are very good places to start. > Kierkegaard’s Sickness Unto Death //Pivotal definitions in…… Read more “Soul Searching”
A Legend & A Life Story: Who was Saint Francis of Assisi?
A Legend and A Life Story: Who was Saint Francis of Assisi? St. Francis of Assisi’s spiritual life was unfathomable even to those around him while he…… Read more “A Legend & A Life Story: Who was Saint Francis of Assisi?”
Heidegger Journal #7
Journal # 7 (3/5/04) A “fore-having” as Heidegger uses the term here is what you bring with you to an experience that allows you to interpret it.…… Read more “Heidegger Journal #7”
Heidegger Journal #5
Journal # 5 (2/27/04) Heidegger addresses those who make objections to environmental experience based on its presupposition of the reality of the external world by explaining why…… Read more “Heidegger Journal #5”
Augustine & Plato on Happiness of Soul… (II)
Although Augustine was strongly influenced by Plato, the two have clearly different ideas of what constitutes human Happiness. For Plato, justice, or psychic harmony, is the dominant…… Read more “Augustine & Plato on Happiness of Soul… (II)”
Plato on Happiness of Soul…
Is the just person truly happier than the unjust person? In his comparative thesis, Plato never directly addresses what happiness is, but by analyzing certain definitions that…… Read more “Plato on Happiness of Soul…”
Britain in India: World War I through the 1960s
Marykathryn Huffman (mar. Gough) 4/24/06 Prof. Bratt STBR 372 Essay #3By 1914, India had long been subjected to the harsh treatment of Imperial Britain, a country used…… Read more “Britain in India: World War I through the 1960s”
Night *
Elie Wiesel and Theodicy A reflection paper turned in to Professor Thompson By Kate Huffman (Mary Kathryn Gough) / REL 131 4/12/04 This paper will respond to…… Read more “Night *”
The Great Wars & Athenian Ascendancy
The Great Wars and Athenian Ascendancy The Formation of an Athenian Empire c. Mary Kathryn Gough (Katie Gough), Ancient Western Civ., 7/22/02 Essay 2 The 5th century…… Read more “The Great Wars & Athenian Ascendancy”
Literature’s Unifying Force
Mary Kathryn Gough 11/11/05 Project #2 The Unifying Force of Kafka’s Literature: Drawing a Dual-Hearted World Together in Unity of Spirit “Could not then art and literature…… Read more “Literature’s Unifying Force”
Art, Culture, & the Autonomous, Free Humanity of Man
1Art, Culture, and the Autonomous, Free Humanity of Man; The Universal Applicability of Living in Truth and Accepting Responsibility as Destiny The essence of the conflict…is not…… Read more “Art, Culture, & the Autonomous, Free Humanity of Man”
Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie’s novel, Midnight’s Children, won the 1981 Booker Prize, and in 1993 it was decided that Midnight’s Children was the ‘Booker of Bookers’, or the best…… Read more “Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie”
Kant Journal #3
The Transcendental Deduction:A Defense of the Objective Validity of the Categories of the Understanding Kant takes up the defense of the objective validity of his ‘categories of…… Read more “Kant Journal #3”
Idiolalia 