Essays Tagged: "Enlightenment"

Buddha

This tells about Buddha's journey for enlightenment and his impact on the world. Just needs some more foot notes and sourcesBuddhaThe word ... don the teachings that he had learned thus far and walked to aBo-Tree where he would meditate until enlightenment or death.EnlightenmentWhile Siddartha meditated, he was visited by the God of Evil,Mar ... goal, he made agreat sacrifice to all human kind and gave up his Nirvana so that hecould teach his enlightenment to others. Even though Siddharthacould have stayed in perfect harmony in paradise, he ...

(9 pages) 274 3 4.6 Dec/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Buddhism

y nine, the prince left his wife and his infant son to meditate and practice Yoga to find peace and enlightenment. Gaumata was meditating for a long time when finally while he was sitting under a Bo t ... as meditating for a long time when finally while he was sitting under a Bo tree he had attained the enlightenment he was looking for. It is for this reason he got the name Buddha, meaning the enlighte ...

(2 pages) 164 0 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Buddhism

Buddhism

o wish to follow the path of spiritualdevelopment. Ultimately, the Buddhist path culminates inEnlightenment or Buddhahood.Who was the Buddha?        The word Buddha is a tit ... Siddharta Guatemala,who lived about 2,500 years ago in Northern India. When hewas 35 he found Enlightenment whist in profound mediation,after searching for years. In the next 45 years of his ...

(4 pages) 257 0 4.3 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Buddhism

Mind over Matter

worldly secular life, instead embracing a life of meditation and study. While attempting to achieve enlightenment, and therefore nirvana, a Buddhist must first come to eradicate his sense of self, eff ... l my thoughts of school fading away. I imagined myself a monk in the Chin Shan temple, striving for enlightenment. Just to add another level to the activity (by this time is was fairly boring) I attem ...

(5 pages) 133 0 4.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Slavery

in the course ofhistory. The institution of slavery was addressed by Frenchintellectuals during the Enlightenment. Later, during the FrenchRevolution, the National Assembly issued the Declaration of t ... osing views on the interpretation of universal equality.Many of the philosophes, the leaders of the Enlightenment, wereagainst slavery. They held that all people had a natural dignity thatshould be re ...

(2 pages) 156 2 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Traits of Enlightenment in Christianity and some additional thoughts

Modern Christianity starts with first phase of Enlightenment by Wesley and Methodism. As second phase of pessimistic view, liberalism and some nega ... n. Bonhoeffer was first to stand up for secular theology and predicted about future of Christianity.Enlightenment was primarily a European and American phenomenon approaching Christianity based on rat ... on, positive on scientific trend(i.e. electricity), and overall stand for optimistic first phase in Enlightenment.Jonathan Edwards, America's first theologian, was driving force of the First Great Awa ...

(5 pages) 169 0 3.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

The influence of the Enlightenment on French Culture and the role of the Philosophers

How did the enlightenment influence French society? What was the role of the philosophers?The enlightenment infl ... philosophies based on religious documents and Aristotle's philosophical ideals and principles. The enlightenment was a basic principle that all things in the world could be explained with science. Th ... time believed that it was possible to better society and the culture that they lived in. while the enlightenment questioned traditional beliefs, many felt that it was an attack against them and all r ...

(1 pages) 104 0 3.9 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad- explores truth in the novel

story of the Congo, he sits with the "pose of a Buddha" (pg. 9) as if sharing a piece of truth and enlightenment with his fellow sailors. Then he begins to tell of the others in the Congo, the "Red-e ...

(3 pages) 89 0 3.0 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Births of Kings in 'Hamlet', by William Shakespeare and 'Oedipus Rex', by Sophocles

. In these two plays, two kings must leave their innocence behind as the truth leads them first, to enlightenment and then to their downfall. This is a battle between the light and the darkness, the l ...

(3 pages) 85 0 4.5 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

The Triumph of "Gorsh the Cellist" Miyazawa Kenji

the scene between Gorsh and the mice where Kenji captures Gorsh's character movement and subsequent enlightenment.There are four main elements that appeal to readers of Kenji's tales: humour - that he ...

(3 pages) 28 0 4.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Shim Gum Do - a Buddhist practice of using martial arts as a form of Zen.

tial arts with action, but by practicing them in unison the followers of Shim Gum Do aim to achieve enlightenment, just as their teacher and founder of the practice, Master Chang Sik Kim, did almost 4 ... ate for hours, days, even months on end in an attempt to remove themselves from society and achieve enlightenment (Low, 1998). This vegetative state, though mentally stimulating, was obviously having ...

(8 pages) 117 0 4.1 Apr/2002

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Analysis of Human Cultural Identity as seen in five cultural periods. Enlightenment Culture; Greco-Roman Culture; Judeo-Christian Culture; Renaissance-Reformation Culture; and Industrialization-Mo

analysis of the human cultural identity, as seen inthe following five historical cultural periods: Enlightenment Culture; Greco-RomanCulture; Judeo-Christian Culture; Renaissance-Reformation Culture; ... era that areclearly stated, and how they relate to the cultural period.The cultural identity of the Enlightenment can be described as emphasizing thepossibilities of human reason. This idea can be ill ...

(3 pages) 292 1 4.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Turn Around, An essay which breaks down both the parable of the cave and Socrates four levels of reality

d a singular truth.The Allegory, taken as the story of one man, narrates his life from ignorance to enlightenment. He sits within a cave, facing away from a blazing fire. He stares at the wall opposit ... in a state of Becoming (the lowest two levels of truth), and proceeds toward the ultimate Truth and Enlightenment, much like The Buddha. From a political standpoint, it is an outline of a society's tr ...

(6 pages) 121 0 4.2 Nov/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Impermanence, Selflessness, and Dissatisfaction in Buddhism

e and ritual. Buddhism outlines the three characteristics of existence, which aids one in achieving enlightenment. Impermanence, selflessness, and dissatisfaction are concepts that are easily understo ...

(4 pages) 95 0 3.7 May/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Buddhism

The Symposium, A Philosophers Guide to Love

ymposium, even the wisest of men in a time when the search for knowledge was seen as the pathway to enlightenment love was still a concept that was not understood and unknown. Though many of the guide ...

(8 pages) 193 1 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Anselm's Ontological Argument and the Philosophers

Saint Anselm of Aosta, Bec, and Canterbury, perhaps during a moment of enlightenment orstarvation-induced hallucination, succeeded in formulating an argument for God's exi ...

(7 pages) 229 1 5.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

The Enlightenment and the Role of the Philosophers

The Enlightenment is a name given by historians to an intellectual movement that waspredominant in the W ... d by the aftermath of the long religious conflict that followedthe Reformation, the thinkers of the Enlightenment (called philosophes in France) werecommitted to secular views based on reason or human ... culmination of a long debate on happiness and themeans of achieving it.The political writers of the Enlightenment built on and extended the rationalistic,republican, and natural-law theories that had ...

(3 pages) 363 0 3.0 Mar/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy

Values of today

f coursecame as a shock. I had thought that I was an informed citizen but I now know otherwise.this enlightenment came at great cost in time, and effort. The time was spent in watchingtelevision for a ...

(5 pages) 87 0 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Weapons and Armor of the Renaissance

what race or religion, fighting is as unavoidable as the plague.The Renaissance brought tremendous enlightenment and development across Europe. Individuals were becoming more interested in the import ...

(19 pages) 149 0 3.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Slavery throughout history

in the course ofhistory. The institution of slavery was addressed by Frenchintellectuals during the Enlightenment. Later, during the FrenchRevolution, the National Assembly issued the Declaration of t ... osing views on the interpretation of universal equality.Many of the philosophes, the leaders of the Enlightenment, wereagainst slavery. They held that all people had a natural dignity thatshould be re ...

(2 pages) 77 0 4.0 Mar/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism