... emotional response is always there regardless of time and style (Barth, Symbiotic, 129). In terms of faith, Coleridge felt that it was a complete self-commitment, and made up the whole of hope, love, and other virtues. An act of any one of these was equal to an act of assurance. He also felt that an act of faith was analogous to an act of a poet because both bring entire soul of man into realm of activity (Barth, Symbolic ... existence of God, necessary benevolence of the Deity, and miracles. Instead of evil, Coleridge thought in terms of pain, arguing that the function of pain in the d...

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... to Dante the soul does live after physical death. It [the soul] goes on enduring and remembering the things that happen to it. You, the real you, the inner light you, never dies. You may go one. But in my view your soul dies with you. If there is a heaven, is it an unlimited hard drive that never fills up? Reincarnation is not a viable option. The belief that the soul returns into ... that whatever happens necessarily. Not only is the world such that all events are determined by prior events, but the universe is a perfect, rational whole. For all their interests in logic and speculative ...

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... established character, successful in certain fields of activity and enjoying an enviable reputation. We must not conclude, there, that all his volitions and actions are predictable; Macbeth's character, like any other man's at a given moment, is what is being made out of potentialities plus environment, and no one, not even Macbeth himself, can know all his inordinate self-love whose ... his eternal jewel, the soul, into the possession of those demonic forces which are the enemy of mankind. He recognizes that the acts of conscience which torture him are really expressions of that outrag...

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