Figuring Out Life Almost as pressing as our basic need for food, our desires to resolve the questions surrounding our existence have yielded countless philosophies. ... Because his philosophy was much easier to "Christianize," it seems reasonable to think that Platonism was more warmly adopted compared to Lucretius" non-teleological view of the universe. ... Man could have burst from ocean, from dry land the bearers of scales, and from thin air the birds; Thus everything cannot spring from anything, for things are unique.(5)" Instead of pointing to some supernatural force as the source o...

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During this period Epicurus had taken the Cyrenaic philosophy of experience and pleasure and developed a more lofty philosophy. ... "Those who tackle philosophy are simple, so if one has spent his life in philosophy should not fear death, and have good hopes that he will win the greatest blessings in the next world when he has ended" (Readings 75). ... Socrates" belief of an immortal soul made it easier for people to except dying since in his philosophy he taught that we will "probably be in the company of those like ourselves" (Readings pg 76). ...

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Romanticism began in the early 19th century and totally changed the way people viewed themselves and the condition of nature around them. Unlike Classicism, which stood for order and established the foundation for architecture, literature, painting and music, Romanticism allowed people to get away f...

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She uses the philosophy of a Psychologist who espouses that "value lies in the tiny changes" and that "The way people make and create real change is by doing two or three small things in their lives differently on a regular basis". ...

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The Macquarie Dictionary defines "change" as revolutionizing, substituting, altering, and modification. Change is every shift that occurs in a person, in an environment, and in a state of any kind. On a community level change is occurring each and every day, socially, technologically, economical...

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The transcendentalist perspective on life, as defined by Walt Whitman and Durand through their creative and artistic mediums, is an eternal and unbroken cycle that is void of a strict beginning or an absolute end. It's an experience where an individual continuously grows and develops. The illusion t...

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Much of Plato's beliefs on the soul can be found in his dialogues, "The Republic" and "Phaedo," where he describes that he is a dualist; this means that he believed that the soul and the body were two completely separate entities that worked in conjunction with each other to create what we would dee...

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Throughout the first chapter of Walden, "Economy", Thoreau states his justifications for leaving society behind in an attempt to show people that life can be lived with bare necessities and still be wholesome. Thoreau claims that his attempt at Walden Pond is nothing more than a two-year experimen...

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And the second attempt was using philosophy and its "As if" theory, which explains that "our thought-activity includes a number of hypothesis who's groundlessness and absurdity we fully realize, and the same goes with religious doctrines" as they ar...

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The simpler path of life often seems to be the most challenging one for many. In the midst of our individualistic culture we invariably experience deadlines, competition and distractions, all of which have the ability to leave us perplexed enough to blind us from the beaten path we are on. Thomas...

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While he thinks on life while observing people in the park, which shows the invading melancholia that is little Chandler's most meticulous suit, the reader notices that he has not yet had the acquiring of wisdom that would allow him to make the distinction between his life, and life itself, and this philosophy is ruled by this perpetual melancholia, the only obvious remnants of a long and habitually stifled desire for passion. ...

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