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Marcuse's critique of Jean Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness is discussed, and a response is offered from the perspective of a critical rereading of Sartre's text.

... one passage of Being and Nothingness that Marcuse would have certainly found bizarre--Sartre's account of war. /* ... of view of its form" leads more readily to a resolution of the individual and social levels of consciousness. We realize our social reality ...

(9 pages) 123 0 5.0 07/Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

"The Brutality of Fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon" - Discusses the making of art and the philosophy he shares.

... of reality: "When talking about the violence of paint, it has nothing to do with violence of war, it's to do with an attempt to remake the violence of reality ...

(2 pages) 2102 0 0.0 31/Oct/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

The Origin Of Civil Society

... the best form of government. This argument convinces the reader to turn away from the reality of slavery towards the truth of equality. ... to enslave, thus creating a circle of unjustified claims. Next, Rousseau said that even in war, there is no such thing ...

(3 pages) 43 0 0.0 01/Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

The Democracy-Monarchy Cycle, an essay on the theories of Hobbes.

... of what they desire. In this state of "war of every man against every man" (Hobbes 71), the people are leaders of ...

(8 pages) 24 0 5.0 08/Mar/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

This essay discusses why William of Ockham can be considered as the initiator of the "modern way" of doing philosophy

... reality of God as the infinitus intensive can as little be demonstrated from efficientia, causalitas, eminentia, as from the divine knowledge of ...

(7 pages) 69 0 4.8 04/Jan/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Utopias of 21st Century

... of urban hegemony-- understood as fusion of micro and macro-dimensions of reality, a combination of multiple dimensions of power, and an integration of "minimal difference" into the reproduction of ...

(45 pages) 45 0 0.0 03/May/2011

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

ROUSSEAU'S theory is better than Locke and Hobbes

... reader similar to that of man in a state of nature, therefore providing a convincing reality of fear. He places ... of nature. He needs to go back to the origins of man before society existed. Rousseau looks at the world and sees property as the cause of war ...

(10 pages) 89 0 1.0 15/Mar/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Thomas Hobbes

... of international law, strong countries pray on the weakness of weak countries. Humans have three motivations for ending this state of war: the fear of ...

(14 pages) 245 0 3.0 13/Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Philosophical answer for the call of nation building "Nietzche's Ubermench and the will to power."

... and not the dreary, restricted life of religion. To express will to power, one forces reality to bend to one's own ... movie review www.Execution.com Americana Encyclopedia Stories of NAZI's regime Movie. Shinder's List Movie Execution. Atrocities of World War ...

(6 pages) 35 0 5.0 20/Oct/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Rousseau on the Social Contract and the Equality of Man

... the harshness of nature. So in this state all men are equally free, the only inequality is physical. In reality, natural ... naturally peaceful and compassionate rather than war-like. Rousseau forms this argument out of his belief that many naturally possess ...

(4 pages) 112 0 4.5 03/Jun/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

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