The clear portrayal, the beautiful expression of the inner worlds of feelings and emotions, of the mysterious and ever-changing realm of dreams gave me such refreshment, fascination and inspiration that I'd like to present in this writing my findings about that unmaterialistic side of art and its contribution to the modern world, through the examples of two prominent art movements: Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. ... Instead, they are concerned with the expression of the inner worlds of the artist's feelings, emotions, imagination and dreams. ... As portrayed in Destino, &quo...

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This authentic state has furthermore propelled this object of beauty into an idol to be worshiped as he is "amazed when he sees anyone having a god-like face or form, which is the expression of divine beauty" (62). ... " It is conceivable to misinterpret this expression of love and beauty however as "madness.... This "simplicity" spurs from the fact that these unenlightened individuals have not been allowed the opportunity or knowledge to experience physical beauty as an expression of ideal beauty. ... The profound drive the lover has acquired in order to progress...

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The object was a very popular medium for their expression. ... The Surrealists were committed to non-rationality as an ideal for all their actions, including their creation. ... Therefore, despite shunning rationality, the Surrealists contradicted themselves by creating this structure which stands in opposition to their original motivations. ... Surrealism, however, wasn't simply a form of art expression but the Surrealism artworks that were produced were symbolic of the artist's personal experiences too. ... However, Surrealism, did in fact attempt to awaken society to the destru...

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In the beginning of the novel Darcy is a coldly rational man that makes a mistake in his judgment of Jane's attachment to his friend Mr. ... This epistolary element of the novel is important to consider, as letter writing was usually a form of expression related to women. ... In his love and the expression of it, Darcy is not self-centered and self-victimizing like Werther, which makes Elizabeth sympathize with him and approve of his argument, unlike Lotte that rebukes Werther for his expression. ... " she asks Werther to control himself referring to the notion of manhood that is bui...

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The notion of obligation comes from us as rational, free beings. ... It is an expression of freedom and they are inseparable. ... It is only dependent on us as free, rational beings. ... Our respect to moral law comes from our own nature as a rational being. ... We decide as rational, free beings in the realm of freedom what we ought to do. ...

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The Enlightenment marked the rise of "reason" as its leaders advocated free, rational thinking and pursuit of knowledge. Although the idea behind Enlightenment allowed for great progress in social and scientific matters, some believed that Enlightenment thinkers were still not getting at the essence of what it meant to be self-conscious and rational individuals. ... They wanted individuals with one important quality: self-certainty from rational deduction; someone who confidently thinks himself right based on reason. ... One might expect him to discuss why humans are more capable of ...

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These new aesthetics found expression in the works of such Italian artists as Leonardo da Vinci, S. ... The sonnets of Michelangelo are impassioned expressions of inner feelings and religious conviction. ... The social movement of the Renaissance was humanism; a philosophy based on the idea that people are rational beings. ...

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Ultimately, John Stuart Mill's argument is more convincing because it is more rational, valid, and effective compared to the argument in favor of the legislation. ... This theory rules out such things as legal paternalism, that the state should never interfere with an individual's freedom, such as the liberty of thought and expression, simply for his or her own good. ... Literature is a written expression of one's ideas, values, and feelings. Destroying distribution is the government restricting a person's liberty of thought and expression. ... The only way to resolve...

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Ultimately, John Stuart Mill's argument is more convincing because it is more rational, valid, and effective compared to the argument in favor of the legislation. ... This theory rules out such things as legal paternalism, that the state should never interfere with an individual's freedom, such as the liberty of thought and expression, simply for his or her own good. ... Literature is a written expression of one's ideas, values, and feelings. Destroying distribution is the government restricting a person's liberty of thought and expression. ... The only way to resolve...

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The bond of duty also has a regulative expression, but the bond is "only a restriction on indeterminate subjectivity or abstract freedom- (p107 149). ... Since it is subjective, it will always be limited to particular moments and therefore cannot be rational. Without the rationality of an objective will, the universal will would merely be a general will for individuals. Rationality is the unity of the universal and the individual (p156 258). ... Rationality is concrete, explicit complete actualization, only in the state. ...

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From the biographical approach the use of madness in Poe's oeuvre may represent some conscious or unconscious expression of his inner life.6 According to some biographers Poe's, "interest in insanity [] shows the morbid quality of his mind.... Instead of harmony and unison, Romantics sought harmony of contrast, and as far as the motif of madness is concerned, it is sanity and insanity and rationality and irrationality which are contrasted through the whole short fiction of Edgar Allan Poe. ... Auguste Dupin, whose rationality and ability to empathize with others in order to solv...

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It steered organizational setups to rational based considerations, which are in line with the science of administration idea. ... Rationality of Weber's Bureaucracy: Weber defines bureaucracy as "the means of carrying community action over into rationally ordered social action an instrument for socializing relations of power, bureaucracy has been and is a power instrument of the first order.... Moreover, Weber believes that bureaucracy is the most rational and efficient organizational form devised by man. ... Bureaucracy, states Fry, is Weber's tool to express the most efficien...

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They are possible ways of expression that preexist in the unconscious and are activated only if trigerred by something from the inside or the outside. ... It is the active, rational principle which, by a logic analisys measures, evaluates and organizes both the material and the spiritual values. ... He repents and confesses being to prostitutes, but after a rational analisys, his free spirit urges him to follow his desire and decides to do so without any fear. ...

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Rational religion was her base for morality and guide to proper conduct. ... Influenced by Joseph Adison's Spectator and its promotion of "moral decency and rational religion" she tended to prefer reason and judgment over fancy and invention. ... (Akers 11) reflects Abigail Adams" attitude of rational acceptance of life and its polarities while Mary Todd often overlooked this kind of reasoning and concentrated on her own self. In her marriage to Lincoln, "individual expression of power" was part of their union, which was very uncommon to the values of submissiveness and dependency of both...

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Eliade isn't concerned about "the relation between the rational and the non-rational elements of religion but the sacred in its entirety" (275). ... Religious beliefs are symbolic expressions of social realities without which religious beliefs have no meaning. ... Hence, Weber grants to religion a molding power that it lacks in the theories of Durkheim and other reductionists such as Marx and Freud, who "account for religious ideas and actions as the result of some other cause – something more real and more basic, of which they are the mere expression, or effect&quo...

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What better way to outline your affections towards a lady then to say how her virginity symbolizes a "quaint honor" (29), which makes it a redundant expression considering the speaker is trying to win the fondness of the female. ... Considering the two variables used for comparison are not of the same category makes them rationally incomparable. ... In account, the title of the essay is related to the theme of insult and how the act of courtship is replaced by exaggerated metaphorical expressions that invite lust from lies", not love from truth. ...

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Newton had discovered combined infinite sums (infinite series), the binomial theorem for fractional exponents, and the algebraic expression of the inverse relation between tangents and areas, methods we know today as calculus. ... Dedekind called this continuous domain the system of real numbers, and defined it in terms of a concept he called cuts in the rationals. The system itself contains all rational numbers, and for each cut in the rationals not produced by a rational, there is one new number, called an irrational. ... Below is how Dedekind explained his system of cuts: "Every ration...

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(she is in love with Lysander, and wants to marry him against her fathers expressed wishes) In act 1 scene 1 line 117 to 120 we see a good example of Theseus" firm expression mixed with some compassion. ... Shakespeare's portrayal of Oberon reflects his position in the drama of the rational world of civilised man. ... He says: "For Oberon is passing fell and wrath- and "And jealous Oberon would have the child"(Act 2 scen 1 lines 20 and 24) Oberon's speech is not rational and is full of references to magical and amazing things. ... Contrast this to the way Theseus argues...

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The results are listed in the tables below: KeyMath Revised (KM-R) SUBTEST STANDARD SCORE PRECENTILE RANK BASIC CONCEPTS 55 Below 1 OPERATIONS 60 Below 1 APPLICATIONS 66 1 TOTAL TEST 61 Below 1 The Woodcock-Johnson Test of Achievement (WJ-R) SUBTEST STANDARD SCORE PERCENTILE RANK STANDARD BATTERY CLUSTERS BROAD READING 31 .1 BROAD MATHEMATICS 44 .1 BROAD WRITTEN LANGUAGE 18 .1 BROAD KNOWLEDGE 73 3 SKILLS 42 .1 SUPPLEMENTAL BATTERY CLUSTERS BASIC READING SKILLS 31 .1 READING COMPREHENSION 41 .1 BASIC MATHEMATIC SKILLS 30 .1 MATHEMATIC REASONING 74 4 BASIC WRITIN...

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People of the time were searching for a rational approach to creating a better society for themselves due to the political and economic changes that were occurring at a rapid rate across Europe. ... Locke saw humans as good, rational, social, cooperative, and tolerant. ... He became famous for his wit and satire, attacks against the Catholic Church, desire for a reformed monarchy, advocation for freedom of religion and expression, as well as separation of church and state. ... Bentham believed that society could teach individuals to be rational by giving them an ideal environment to learn prop...

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" Rousseau calling for a world without inequality, while unrealistic, does not violate Rawls's principles, it is instead in his wishes for the expression of individual rights where he violated Rawls's views on fairness. ... Rawls believed in the right of the individual and the ability of the rational individual to make decisions for their benefit an the benefit of others. He thought that the rational mind wanted what was best for people, and if the principles of justice were followed, rational individuals would only want to carry out actions that would benefit the group. ...

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Historically, capital punishment is most often-associated lex talionis, which involves punishment in kind and is commonly expressed in the expression " an eye for an eye". ... Instead he thinks that capital punishment is based on the idea that every person is a valuable and worthy of respect because of their ability to make rational and free choices. ... A key problem with Kant's justification of capital punishment is ideally rational killers, but many killers in this world are not rational. ...

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Freedom of expression, information, freely choosing, changing and discarding one's religion and the right to life are some of the fundamental Human Rights, which are threatened by fundamentalism, going to the extent of advocating death for non-believers and freethinkers. ... Islamic Fundamentalism is a dogmatic, religion based ideology that obstructs the growth of a rational, secular morality based on human desires and needs. ...

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Capitalism, however cruel and unjust it may appear in the story, is the product of human expression, of human reason. ... Capitalism recognizes that rational humans have a right to exist, to think, and the resulting system exemplifies this freedom....

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Plato was a rationalist, which means his ideas did not come from observation but from the rational ideas that were occurring within his mind. ... The first cause is the Material Cause, which is literally the physical components of which something is made; the second cause is the Efficient Cause, which is the method by which something is brought into existence; the Third cause is the Formal Cause, which is the expression of what something actually is, and the fourth cause is the Final Cause, which is essentially the purpose for which something exists. ...

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