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… But nobody's perfect, so why practice? No matter how hard perfection is strived for, it can never be reached. In The Once and Future King by T.H. White, King Arthur wants nothing more for his kingdom than to be the perfect society, where war is used…

… work. One part is that people can teach religious doctrine, but it may not lead one to find one's true inner 'self'. The other part is that knowledge can be taught, but wisdom comes from experience. The main character, Siddhartha, came to understand…

… history when English and French philosophers created new outlooks on life. Leibniz was one of these philosophers and he introduced the idea of optimism. Optimism was described as believing that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds"…

… two theories that will be compared and contrasted in this essay are Plato's Idealism and Mill & Bentham's Utilitarianism. I chose these two theories because, to me, they are the ones that seem to be the most realistic and interesting. The way to…

… and reveals his feelings towards life and the hasty marriage between his mother and his uncle. Hamlet wishes to "thaw and resolve [...] into a dew" but is restrained by the canon law that condemns him to eternal suffering in hell if he were to do so.…

… William Shakespeare's Sonnet #116. Throughout this essay I will be referring often to text of the poem William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 116" exploits conventional sonneteering (Kerrigan ,1986,1995:11) to speak of his perception and judgement of love. The…

… in philosophy, can be deciphered in many different ways. It basically says that people are chained to the wall of a cave and they have nothing to look at but shadows on the wall that are provided by another. This is all that they know and have never…

… was a kind man, he generally was likeable. He was a good child, and he treated everyone fairly. Until his mother dies. Depressed and utterly distraught by his mothers death he is determined to never have to live through that kind of pain again.…

… will not be considered a monster if they are kind, gentle and warm hearted. You've never heard a person say, "Gandhi was a monster," or "Mother Theresa was a monster." You could hear someone jokingly call a tall or large person a monster just because…

… play is yet another character development. -The main point of his speech is that he can't seem to take a task to its end, when others are able to do so. The development is shows a change in Hamlets thoughts. He is now fully concentrated on killing…