The virtues of Faust are often argued. ... Faust did not make a "pact" with Mephisto or accept his service in exchange for his soul. ... In addition Faust is involved in many activities that can be considered to be amoral. ... Faust also engages in other activities that seem deserving of eternal damnation. ... Faust engages more frequently in these immoral activities. ...
In terms of faith, Coleridge felt that it was a complete self-commitment, and made up the whole of hope, love, and other virtues. ... He also felt that an act of faith was analogous to an act of a poet because both bring entire soul of man into realm of activity (Barth, Symbolic, 12-13). ... Instead of evil, Coleridge thought in terms of pain, arguing that the function of pain in the divine plan is to chasten man for his moral evil and return him to path of virtue. Involving trial and error, man slowly learns the relationship between virtue and happiness, with vice and pains being means for ma...
(Hegel, 85) The spirit is the activity of externalizing and expressing itself in images and actions. ... (Hegel, 86) Since the Egyptians believe that death is the principle realm in which the soul will forever be preserved, explains why the dogma of immortality is of such importance. ...
