The Jewish community and the US
Essay - 12 pages - Philosophy
In 2000-01, a National Jewish Population Survey was conducted. This survey is realized once every ten years. The survey declared that the population of Jews in the U.S. amounted to nearly 5.2 million (it was 5.5 million in 1990). The Herculean task of defining ?Who is a Jew' was the main...
What is subjectivism ? Is it a threat to morality ?
Essay - 5 pages - Philosophy
Today, more and more people pretend to be subjectivist. That is why it is necessary to consider in detail subjectivism, studying its meanings and justifications; and then study its impacts on morality.
Can an atheist be moral ?
Essay - 5 pages - Philosophy
In our modern society, in which “God is dead” and where religion appears to decline, are we moving towards an immoral society -if as we have seen above- morality is so tied to religion ? Or can an atheist, who doesn't believe that God exists, can be moral, i.e. be able to conduct...
« The counter-revolution will be the contrary of the revolution ». Explain and Discuss
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
De Maistre's conservative monarchism and fervent criticism of the revolution reasons on a theocratic basis and on a historicist perspective; but he also admits the faults of absolutism and stresses how revolutionary violence is a punishment for the evil and corruption of Christian France,...
Euthanasia
Essay - 7 pages - Philosophy
In recent years, Euthanasia has become a very heated debate. Whether the issue is refusing prolonged life mechanically, assisting suicide, or active euthanasia, we eventually confront our society's fears toward death itself. It is not easy for most of the western world to see death as an...
Death penalty
Essay - 6 pages - Philosophy
Electric chair, gas chamber, lethal injection, firing squad, hanging, guillotine and garroting - when you hear these words what do you think of? Do you get scared? When some hear these words they tend to say, " Oh they deserve it". In the court system that is not always the case. The question you...
Life, Death, and Politics : A Run-Down Of The Abortion Debate
Worksheets - 5 pages - Philosophy
Few issues have fostered such controversy as has the topic of abortion. The participants in the abortion debate not only have firmly-fixed beliefs, but each group has a self-designated appellation that clearly reflects what they believe to be the essential issues. On one side, the pro-choice...
Life, death and politics : A run-down of the abortion debate - published: 28/04/2002
Thesis - 5 pages - Philosophy
Few issues have fostered such controversy as has the topic of abortion. The participants in the abortion debate not only have firmly-fixed beliefs, but each group has a self-designated appellation that clearly reflects what they believe to be the essential issues. On one side, the pro-choice...
The Impressionist movement
Essay - 14 pages - Philosophy
In 1912, the painter Fernand Léger, stigmatised in an acute and modern way the revolutionary dimension of Impressionism, opening the way for modern criticism : “Les Impressionnistes, les premiers ont rejeté la valeur absolue du sujet, pour ne plus en considerer que la valeur relative. Là est...
The Great Gatsby, by F.S Fitzgerald (1925)
Book review - 9 pages - Literature
T. Elliott, writer and critic, referred to The Great Gatsby, as the novel was first published in 1925, as “the first step that American fiction [had] taken since Henry James”. Since this date, critics agree to emphasize it as a the most accomplished and mature book ever written by...
Old and new worlds : What is Montaigne saying about the West in On Cannibals ?
Worksheets - 6 pages - Literature
Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne, was born in 1533, the son of a successful fish merchant. After an education focusing on Latin (he spoke it as a native), he studied law at Toulouse. He had made a career as a provincial magistrate. He travelled one year in Germany and Italy, and was mayor of...
The ending of Hamlet : a reconciliation with life ?
Worksheets - 3 pages - Literature
Act I to Act III in the famous play ?Hamlet' goes on to describe the compromised mental state of Hamlet where he contemplates committing suicide because his life has become unbearable. The last act, however, brings a resolution to the play that leaves the audience wondering if Hamlet is still...
Adaptation of Henry V
Essay - 5 pages - Philosophy
By analyzing and studying the main themes (war, leadership, relationships between human being) developed in both the films (and the interpretation made by the two directors), we will see that, although adapted from the same play, the potrayal of Henry is quite different. In both versions of the...
John Rawls' Theory of Justice
Book review - 5 pages - Philosophy
In the Theory of Justice (1971), Rawls offered an alternative to utilitarianism that led to different conclusions about justice. He asserted that if people had to choose principles of justice from behind a "veil of ignorance" that restricted their understanding of their own position in the...
