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Encyclopaedia Britannica Moral Reasoning
1,479 words... is sadness" or "what is to be sad." I say that I know what you mean, I have been sad before, I know what it is like to be sad. I empathize with you. We agree about being sad. We have an intersubjective agreement. Alas, such an agreement is meaningless. We cannot (yet) measure sadness, quantify it, crystallize it, access it in any way from the outside. We are totally and absolutely reliant on your introspection and my introspection. There is no way anyone can prove that my "sadness" is even r...
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Integrity In To Kill A Mockingbird
947 wordsBelieve it or not, individuals have trouble seeing black from white. Mankind has the ability to develop an immoral sense of integrity suited to their needs, yet morally accept their sense of integrity. The author of To Kill a Mockingbird illustrates this illusion portrayed by a Southern society. By using a 1930 s Southern point-of-view, Harper Lee demonstrates that integrity not only has the power to unite humankind, but to divide humankind as well. The setting of To Kill a Mockingbird, in a sma...
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Act V Scene Act I Scene
1,810 wordsMacbeth: Aristotelian Tragedy Kim Blair Per. 5 Interpretive Test The definition of tragedy in an excerpt from Aristotle's Poetics is the re-creation, complete within itself, of an important moral action. The relevance of Aristotle's Poetics to Shakespeare's play Macbeth defines the making of a dramatic tragedy and presents the general principles of the construction of this genre. Aristotle's attention throughout most of his Poetics is directed towards the requirements and expectations of the plo...
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Crime And Punishment Idea Of Love
2,585 wordsThree notebooks with drafts and notes for Crime and Punishment have been preserved, that is, three manuscript versions of the novel: the first, short version (the novella); the second, lengthier version; and the third, final version. These correspond to the three stages of [Dostoevsky's] work: the Wiesbaden stage (the letter to Katkov); the Petersburg stage (from October to December 1865), when Dostoevsky launched his new plan; and, finally, the last stage (1866). All three-manuscript versions o...
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Father Death Avenge His Father
1,597 wordsPsychological Estrangement In Shakespeare? s " Hamlet" , the main character, Hamlet, is burdened with attaining revenge on his murdered father? s behalf from the king of Denmark, King Claudius. In attempting to kill Claudius, Hamlet risks enduring estrangement occurring within himself at multiple psychological levels. The levels of estrangement that risk Hamlet? s psychological sense of identity are religious estrangement, moral estrangement, estrangement from countrymen, estrangement ...
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Avenge His Fathers Death Make Him Feel
1,583 wordsIn Shakespeare's " Hamlet" , the main character, Hamlet, is burdened with attaining revenge on his murdered fathers behalf from the king of Denmark, King Claudius. In attempting to kill Claudius, Hamlet risks enduring estrangement occurring within himself at multiple psychological levels. The levels of estrangement that risk Hamlets psychological sense of identity are religious estrangement, moral estrangement, estrangement from countrymen, estrangement from his mother, and estrangemen...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Moral Reasoning
2,891 wordsSam Vaknins Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1999 edition) defines empathy as: The ability to imagine oneself in anthers place and understand the others feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. It is a term coined in the early 20 th century, equivalent to the German End? hung and modelled on sympathy. The term is used with special (but not exclusive) reference to aesthetic experience. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the act...
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