... man who believed in supreme personal liberty and equal creating of all men, could express such ambivalence in his writings and actions toward slavery and that he would impose such boundaries and limitations on women. Eight, a noted psychologist and philosopher, Dostoevsky expounds upon the complexity of the human soul. Dostoevsky exhibits unconscious insight into the human mind and this ... consequences. Sartre's work served as a vehicle for the existentialism in our world. The existentialist themes have prevailed in his philosophical writings, novels, and plays. They permeate literatur...

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... A PERSONAL VIEW In both traditional philosophy and modern psychology, the concept of the ego has played an important role in defining the boundaries of the "self." Although the two fields may seem to take very different views of what the ego is, this is only ... that no philosophy, religion or psychology can be based on pure egoism. There have been many such "ethical" theories of egoism in philosophy, economics, and political science, arguing that self-interest and "looking out for number one" is enough to balance all the contradictory interests and ambitions of human beings living in ......

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... a concern for the lives and well-being of persons. If we do not value persons, including ourselves, there can be no point to valuing other things - - not property, possessions, national boundaries, the flag or anything else. (Holmes, 1989, p. 24) These things include art. Artists therefore have a moral duty to respect the moral rights of others and avoid artistic endeavors which exploit ... are many ways in which their works may be misinterpreted or distorted by others for their hidden agendas. "The education of artists provide the foundations necessary for such social and political eng...

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