If one looks at a baby is it good or bad? One could argue that in its helplessness that it is good due to it needing something from others to help it along its way. However another could argue that...
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If one looks at a baby is it good or bad? One could argue that in its helplessness that it is good due to it needing something from others to help it along its way. However another could argue that...
I realize this is kind of an open ended question; however, as a person that has read some Tolstoy and a good portion of Dostoevsky how does Chekhov compare? What are his important themes that he...
Peyton Farquhar was a tragic figure that died before he had really lived. He went into the war with green behind his ears and in a pool of self-delusion that armed conflict was a gentleman's sport...
Notes from the Underground is a trying read if a person has never read Dostoevsky before, I speak this from experience. However once you get into the pain of the protagonist and how helplessly lost...
I tend to think reading a lot of Existentialism that it suffers from being way too wordy. I wouldn't necessarily call it drivel, but close to it because they aren't forthcoming about what the...
Ah to avoid the suffering of desire, so you are saying that those that don't taste the bitterest wine don't learn from their experience; however, those that do have the ample courage to strike off...
I guess that dispels the old adage that there are no atheists in the foxholes.
While others mentioned Camus, none mentioned this masterwork. I totally agree and what I found so striking about it was how simply written it is. The visuals, the descriptions are so rich and alive,...
Are you saying that because they believe that the world is suffering that they are admitting defeat to the powers that be? Or are you saying that they lack courage because they don't want to come...
It would be determined by asking, what is good and what is bad? It would depend on what we assertained was good or bad about religion and where we align ourselves philosophically and ideologically...
Indeed, his Metamorphisis is a classic that questions reality and the essential, yet rarely questioned state of being we as humans all face.
Even though I don't susbcribe to his ideology, it is still a terrible thing for a person to suffer. He is a man of good debates and I wish him the best.