Skye Tompkins Dr. McMahon HUM 2613 23 September 2015 Become Disinterested When looking at something in a disinterested way it can be labeled as casual. Aesthetic experiences happen everyday, multiple times a day. What humans notice, judge, and define as an aesthetic experience differs, though. Philosophers study and fight to best comprehend and explain the phenomenon of the aesthetic experiences that are constantly happening. Philosopher Hans-George Gadamer does not believe that aesthetics are
In The Nature of Tragedy, Aristotle presents that art is used to as a means to rid one’s feelings. Aristotle’s argument consists of how he defines tragedy as an art which surrounds its central idea around a topic which has great importance as well as is serious. According to Aristotle a tragedy is comprised of six parts that help develop its purpose, which is to simply mimic action. Therefore, Aristotle makes it clear that art, in specific tragedies, serve to imitate a specific individual or object
During the year 1600 CE, a man impri/soned in Rome by the name of Giordano Bruno was tried and found guilty of heresy by the Roman Inquisition. Pope Clement VIII deemed Bruno to be an “impenitent and pertinacious heretic” and he sentenced Bruno to be burned alive at the stake for his crimes. Bruno was a free thinker and spoke almost as freely about those thoughts. His crime was to be in support of the Copernican heliocentrism theory of the earth orbiting the sun (Copernicus’ findings were not
There are many great people in the world who are very influential. These people impact the world in a good way inspiring great people to follow their dreams, stand for what they believe in, and overcome big obstacles in life. Alvin York, soldier of America, shows good traits to be influenced. Alvin York is influential because of his long legacy, his brave, heroic acts, and his great accomplishments that went with him to the grave. Alvin York, a hero, puts a long legacy on people. According to Dr
The Art Institute of Chicago helped me embrace the different: works, forms, time periods, and themes of arts that have been around since the start of time. This was the first time I have ever been to the Art Institute of Chicago and I thoroughly enjoyed sitting and embracing every single piece of art I walked past. I enjoyed how the museum was divided and made it easy to find a specific time period you were looking for or a specific category of art. I found so many things interesting in the museum
Panegyric to the City of Florence It is abundantly clear how Leonardo Bruni feels about the city of Florence. In Panegyric to the City of Florence, he expresses nothing but the highest praise for the city. Every aspect of Florence is backed by a clear reason why it is the best, and there is no other city in the world that can compare. According to Bruni, Florence has extraordinary beauty, architecture, geography, history, government, and people. This, of course, is only one person’s opinion
Paul Blackledge states that “it would be a mistake to equate Marxism with the Soviet System”, with the later being a strictly separate entity from the theories originated from Marx. With regards to Marxist Historiography, it has been said by Benedetto Croce, that the “doctrine of [Marx] … has revivified and influenced almost all modern historical research”. To have a true appreciation for what Marxist Historiography entails, an understanding of Karl Marx is important. He was a German philosopher
William James Durant, a prominent American author, historian and philosopher, published The Story of Philosophy in 1926. He thought of philosophy as an all-encompassing study and endeavored the unification and humanization of all historical knowledge, which had grown too vast and had become infinitely categorized into miniscule specialties, in order to vitalize it for modern day use. Durant was a gifted writer of magnificent prose and also a storyteller who had harvested an incredible readership
Catholics held his book responsible for evil things. Any appraisal of the book therefore involved some ethical queasiness. Modern scholarship may have removed the stigma of devilry from Machiavelli, but it still seems uneasy as to his ethical position. Croce [2] and some of his admirers like Sheldon Wolin [3] and Federic Chabod [4] have pointed out the existence of an ethics-politics dichotomy in Machiavelli. Isaiah Berlin [5] postulates a system of morality outside the Christian ethical schema. Ernst
mentioned earlier that this book has attracted a lot of debates, one such debate is that of morality. Many philosophers claim Machiavelli’s work to be immoral or at least amoral, out of which arguments of some are given below. The first has to be Benedetto Croce (1925), who simply puts a “pragmatist” or a “realist” cap on Machiavelli’s head as he highlights the denouncement of so called ethics in issues of politics
that hegemony was created and reproduced in “cultural life through the media, universities, and religious institutions to ‘manufacture consent’ and legitimacy.” According to Bates, Gramsci “incorrectly identified [a] period of hegemony with [Benedetto] Croce,” who looked to “discover the quality of universality, in every struggle some sign of the human spirit seeking to realize its freedom.” Gramsci’s period of political hegemony was that dictatorship is not the powerful force in society; but
Counterfactualism in History A point made in the third of these essays, on the value of history, was the widespread human enjoyment of a good story. It was suggested that history played a part in satisfying this need. The consistent success of fiction based on a simple form of counterfactual history — Robert Harris's "Fatherland" is a good recent example — seems to indicate that this type of history is equally appealing. Sometimes known as "what if", or "alternative" history, or, in the title
Machiavelli’s, “The Prince” marks the turning point in history, the origin of the study of politics and critical thinking. The Prince, is a handbook or an instruction manual for all rulers to use and to successfully rule a kingdom or state. Machiavelli wrote this during a time where modern day Italy was not unified. It was divided into small republics or kingdoms, which were constantly at war with each other. These republics were either in control of the church or rich families. Machiavelli originally
Do I need help anymore? Throughout most of history, women were seen as inferior to men. Men were viewed as more capable and smarter than women: men worked while women stayed at home; men were given control of the household and their wives, and men obtained education while women learned how to do household chores at home. Many of these inequalities were displayed in early literature, such as Andromeda and the Sea Monster and “Rapunzel”, where women, dubbed Damsels in Distress, either made unintelligent
Truth Exposed in A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler "No other dramatist had ever meant so much to the women of the stage," claimed Elizabeth Robins, the actress who performed the title role in the English-language premier of Hedda Gabler in London in 1891 (Farfan 60). Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian dramatist and poet whose works are notorious for their unveiling of the truths that society preferred to keep hidden. Ibsen was sensitive to women's issues and through his works, he advocated for women's