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Deadly sins
... a father who holds his injured or dead child and stares somewhere angrily. Also there is a town on the back that is in a ... Generally they depict temptations as a good thing so that people are more likely to feel free to lose to the temptations. Temptations ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
The Problem Of Evil
... suffering - loss of a father, drug addiction, and homelessness - seems to be rather pointless. Why did his father have to die? ... people who experience natural disasters and lose their homes, or the people that have never touched a cigarette but still get ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Confucianism and Taoism in Joy
... a poor, unhappy life. When, she was raped she was forced to become a third-wife to Wu Tsing so her child would have a father ... 's controlling fear of life being out balance, losing herself, and getting lost, a Taoist concept. The Moon Lady Play she watches ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Stoicism
... it an impediment to this interest, whether this be a brother, or a father, or a child, or beloved, or lover, it hates, spurns, ... thought although natural as a way of life is paved with extreme social difficulties. The Stoic even "loses" the glorification of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
A danger of a single story
... a conventional middle-class family, her father was a professor and her mother was an administrator. She had a very happy childhood in a very close-knit family. However, a ... are seen as more than stories, they lose their magic; in other words, she says ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
Soul, Body, and Augustine's and Machiavelli's Views on Human Nature
... appetite. He famously claims that men forget the death of a father sooner than the loss of an inheritance. Men go for ... shameful or guilty. Augustine states that if a man wants to forbid grief of losing a friend, he must prohibit or extinguish affection ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
Reflections on MSN - a rational thought excercise covering philosophical topics and concepts such as; aesthetics, globalisation and philosophy of religion.
... . If you want a more concrete illustration, then here is one. You, I presume, and myself used to believe in Father Christmas. I'm ... seems plausible. So if it's a lack of beauty then we can have a scale, as something loses beauty it gains ugliness and vice ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Free Will in A Clockwork Orange
... society who will choose to take their Father's gift of free will in vain and live a life of sin. The Chaplain ... the cost of losing freedom of thought. This is the reoccurring question that keeps challenging the reader in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Personal Code of Ethics. "I believe" Personal essay
... as I do not put my family at risk of losing a husband and father, justice must be served. It is through this kind of ... acts of human kindness that serve to better society by improving a persons attitude about its members. Of course, rule number two includes ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
The Symposium, A Philosophers Guide to Love
... respect of those who have an actual relation to us (Father, friend, acquaintance, etc.) than to the average stranger. Therefore this ... driving forces in a relation is fear; fear of inferiority, fear of humiliation, and fear that they may lose the other person ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy