1. The Restriction of Freedom
Set in the hauntingly secluded locations of mid-twentieth century San Francisco, Alfred Hitchcock's film "Vertigo," is a hypnotic tale of one man's struggle for power, his hopeless search for his ideal love and his abandonment of reality for an illusion. In particular, the scene in Scottie's apartme...
These dimensions can underpin different cognitive styles that, in turn, motivate dispositions either in a more left or right leaning inclination. ... In assessing these trends they find a great deal of overlap in the way that the variables influence information processing that eventually leads to conservative inclination. ...
The comparison of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, and Ridley Scott's 1992 film, Blade Runner, facilitates the examination of transforming societal values and the human condition. The transition from early 19th century England when Romanticism was challenging aspects of the dominant Enlight...
Pierce conjures the inclination of disappointment as the foundation for examination of two restricted or "repugnant" plans; oppositely, I think it is a restriction of the "western" personality that we can't hold two confusing thoughts all the while to be genuine, steady inside their own particular domains or connections. ...
Aristotle's teleological view holds that "whatever is the end-product of the coming into existence of any object, that is what we call its nature" and the ultimate end-product is eudaimonia or a virtuous life. Man is both a social and political animal in that we are inclined to live in society as w...
As Melvin Richter notices, there were three ways in which Tocqueville delineated liberty as a concept: " first, in terms of the benefits produced by the political life of a free government; second, in his distinction between democratic and aristocratic liberty; and third, in his rhetorical inclination to praise liberty as a good in and of itself, a good which can be understood only by those who have experienced it, and the supreme value of which cannot be determined by its consequences"9. ...