... issue to be introduced to an already anxious region. Although they were banned, Spinoza's books were very popular and found in many libraries, including that of English Deist philosopher John Locke. Locke is regarded by some as a representative of a moderate strand in Enlightenment thought compared to the politically and philosophically radical tradition stemming from Spinoza. Spinoza's ideas could be found in all ... ...

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... "the most god-fearing of living creatures," Plato asserts that the Demiurge declared "the better sort of human nature should there-after be called "man."(39)" "As in regards to other divinities," Plato chooses to acknowledge the popular polytheistic religion because to him, it only makes sense for us to " ... to go beyond "sensation, desire mingled with pleasure and pain; and in addition to these fear and anger and all the feelings that accompany these,(39)" in an attempt to imitate the Demiurge and in turn, become closer to the realm of form. By "mastering these passions, they would liv...

• Word Count: 1275
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... ? The curtain was raised and I was waiting still". Here Baudelaire questions the existence of God after interrupting the flow of his poem with a mid-line caesura. By using the metaphor of the curtain as the barrier between life and death, Baudelaire expresses his disappointment that God is not waiting to greet him on the other side by writing "I was ... Duval to be dominant when he writes "While other spirits sail on symphonies/ Mine, my beloved, swims along your scent". Here we see Baudelaire use an extended nautical metaphor, implicitly likening the lack of control he feels under the s...

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... after the albatross is killed exemplifies the fact that the mariner had done something wrong. It's especially apparent that he'd done wrong by God when the albatross is used as a metaphor for the crucifixion of Jesus: "Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung" (II-34). On the surface, the killing of the albatross is presented ... everything about the albatross is mentioned if the wrong that's being punished for is the participation in slave trade, but in great likelihood, the killing of the albatross serves as a metaphor for tampering with the natural state of all thin...

• Word Count: 1986
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... ordinary senses. So to say "God is good,"" what does mean empirically it is quite empty, because in the world we can witness evil. So therefore the statement it is a metaphor because what we value as goodness, God in turn cannot be judged by a human conception of good, so therefore all divine attribute they are all metaphors. Religious language what does ... to be statements about God. Can they in fact really be what they seem to be, that is claims to say something true about a divine reality? Religious language chiefly involves metaphor, symbol, and analogy. Given the variety of religi...

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... has coastlines, and if the government has reasons to think of an attack, it will deploy armies or defensive systems in readiness to defend its territory. That image serves as a metaphor in the philosophical defenses of theism. The role of theism is to denote a foundation to hold up as the source from which belief in God comes (McCloskey, 1968). Their role ... ...

• Word Count: 1965
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... to social health by encouraging generosity and altruism as well as through the insistent announcement of a rebel hope at all gloomy and fatalistic framework. Moreover, the church is a sign and metaphor of the new redeemed humanity that both need to see emerge. Disciples and Principles of Christianity The principle of the oneness of God, the goodness of creation and love for ... ...

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... nature of music. By giving the wind a medium through which it can express itself, Coleridge has made a connection between the mind and the imagination. Not only is the still air a metaphor for music sleeping on the strings of an instrument waiting to be expressed, Coleridge's choice of words to explain the wind's boldness also emphasizes how wind is involved with the ... ...

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... the leading epistemologists of the time, and are still respected as some of the greatest philosophic minds of all time. DesCartes would begin an ontological argument by establishing an architecture metaphor that states that every individual's mind is built upon a system of axioms. This would mean that our conclusions and deductions are predicated on axioms, or things (situations, concepts etc.) we ... ...

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... conversion of individuals as a means of continuing the inheritance of God's kingdom. As the text emphasizes, "Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony" (John 4:39). In this way then, the Samaritan woman replaces the wife of the Hebrew Bible by bringing people into the faith instead of having children. This transformation of the betrothal scene ... ...

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... the fantasy of a supernatural world where all sorrows cease" (141). In this, Marx finds a dangerous complacency, an escapism similar to the one provided by the narcotic of his (in) famous metaphor. He worries that people distracted with rituals and ceremonies, the merest "sigh of protest," can not direct any energy towards actually changing their station, as religion "draws off into fantasy ... ...

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... and has been created abnormally by his mother alone. Despite all of their apparent separation from the Human race, however, Grendel and his Mother serve as a deeper, almost constant underlying metaphor for the evils, the dark side of the very society which they plague. This, therefore, means that below the surface the two beasts actually have several important factors in common ... ...

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... and the subjective philosophers err fundamentally in their perception of the intended role of faith. Climacus illustrates the magnificence and glory of the faith in paradox in one final, masterful metaphor: Sitting quietly in a ship, while the weather is calm is not a picture of faith; but when the ship has sprung a leak, enthusiastically to keep the ship afloat by pumping while ... ...

• Word Count: 4550
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