1. Full Summary - Lord of the Flies
Antonio's thoughts in this chapter indicate a new obsession with sin and punishment. ... Her approach gives Antonio the freedom to apply his understanding to his own decisions. ... In this chapter, he begins to include forgiveness as an element of moral dilemmas. ... Antonio's dream in Chapter 7, in which his brothers are three giants who ask for his "saving hand," is also a very confusing dream. The dream could mean that Antonio is reluctant to give up his innocent, childish idea that his brothers are infallible and unchanging. ...
In the book, "The Lie"," Ken Ham gives an example of this, "Hitler believed in struggle as a Darwinian principle of human life that forced every people to try to dominate all others; without struggle they would rot and perish Even in his own defeat in April 1945, Hitler expressed his faith in the survival of the stronger and declared the Slavic peoples to have proven themselves the stronger. " Sir Arthur Keith, the well-known evolutionist, explains how Hitler was only being consistent in what he did to the Jews; he was applying the principles of Darwinian evolution. ... Genesis chapter 1 sta...
Chapter 13 of Thomas Hobbes "Leviathan"" begins with Hobbes comparing man's characteristics. ... Hobbes closes out the chapter by saying that this war-like society is called the laws of nature. ... He writes that people must give up certain "natural " rights to a sovereign power. ... Hobbes believes that society will be working at its greatest capacity if everyone is willing to give up personal wants for the good of the community to keep persons from being in constant war with each other. ...
Strenghts and Weaknesses of Immanuel Kant's Concept of Nature A philosophical reflection on a disturbed relation with nature in the light of the ecological crisis Summary This study seeks to identify the frameworks of philosophical-theological co-operation between intuitions, ideas, beliefs and convictions within Western history, which prepared the ground for what is now known as the ecological crisis. This crisis confronts us with a human self-understanding in relation to nature particular to our time, which has become life threatening to the existence of large sections of ma...
