... factors--mind, environment, and experience. That is to say, reality is not a tool of realism, but of idealism, even phenomenalism; that the external world, the external reality, does not exist without the human mind to shape and interpret it. Phenomenology, a form of philosophical perspective, concerns itself with the idea that, as opposed to positivism, reality is, essentially, relative and subjective--not ... faces questionable safety, a multitude of debts and invoices, and a constant desire for a brighter day; while the latter is familiar with country clubs, a generally nonchalant ap...

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... . Hamlet's protracted procrastination can be identified with an overwhelming conflict of motive, his consideration of the moral implications of his divine responsibility to avenge extends to questioning humanity's ability for free-will. This moral questioning is permeated in Hamlet through the protagonist's constant procrastination. Throughout his soliloquy, notions of mortality are subjectively expressed to support Hamlet's nihilistic, but humanist biased, perspective ... ...

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... least for a little, but then the cycle will restart again. The idea is also similar to Smeagol in The Lord of the Rings series because just holding onto the ring without slipping it on is enough to keep him in a pleasurable state because he knows the pain that he will endure if it is taken away from him. When he does ... even willing to die trying to retrieve the feeling of sublimity, which is not created through an overwhelming emotion of euphoria instead through a resolution to the pain that he endures without the ring. The second definition in which thought about pain brings sublimit...

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