Beatific vision

It is clear to any reader of "Howl" that Allen Ginsberg is upset with the status quo, in fact, one might even borrow Ginsberg own words about how he feels about his “generation” when he states that they, “let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy.” What a spit in the face. As I continued to read Ginsberg’s profanity-laced and prolonged verbal assault I was sure about convinced about one thing; Ginsberg is demanding for his generation to change by beating…

You can say that Plato’s rationalism conceals his dictatorship. He was a dictator, in his beliefs. He believed that there is one and only one good life for all to lead. Moreover, Plato said “you must not wonder that those who attain to this beatific vision are unwilling to descend.” His beliefs are absolute and exists only independently. This made him believe that if people knew what the good life is, they would not act immoral. “the soul of a man has to come out of the brighter life, and is…

Romanticism in Wuthering Heights Writers of literary works use romanticism to imply the psychological desire to escape the hostile realities of the world. Moreover, individual characters are placed at the center of all life setting in the literature thereby making it easier to express unique feelings and specific attitudes to give value to fidelity in depicting experiences. Romanticism is sometimes used to show in nature a revelation of truth by finding the absolute as opposed to realism…

Many view Satan as an abstract concept, but what is not realized is that Satan is real and that he wants our human souls. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a novel of thirty-one letters, written from an experienced devil, Screwtape, to his inexperienced nephew, Wormwood. In these letters, Screwtape suggests various ways Wormwood can distract his “patient”, specifically a middle aged male, from his faith in God. Screwtape's instructions include tempting the patient to rely on realistic…

The sonnet was a common literary work in the Middle Ages and continues to remain an enticing form of literature. Furthermore, the sonnet is often regarded as the ‘rite of passage’ for new poets to demonstrate their mastery of this heavily structured and themed form of poem. Within the genre of poetry and specifically, sonnets, there are two predominant types of sonnets. The first, prevalent sonnet form was the Petrarchan sonnet developed by Francesco Petrarch, an Italian writer in the…

view, “this moral view of evil is a major stream in biblical thought. It begins in the second creation narrative, is woven through the stories of Cain and Abel, Babel, David, and Bathsheba, and finds voice in prophetic pronouncement. In this moral vision, evil is rooted in human sin. Creation is tarnished by sin and evil, but evil does not threaten human confidence in a just and meaningful world order”.…

Once they have asserted that fact, once they have made happiness the most fundamental of all ethical terms, writers like Aristotle or Locke, Aquinas or J. S. Mill, cannot escape the question whether all who seek happiness look for it or find it in the same things. Holding that a definite conception of happiness cannot be formulated, Kant thinks that happiness fails even as a pragmatic principle of conduct. "The notion of happiness is so indefinite," he writes, "that although every man wishes to…