Both Friedrich Nietzsche and Fyodor Dostoevsky existed at the epicenters of churning changes in thought and contributed to the forward movement of ideas by provoking further philosophical progress. Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil is described as “one of the most remarkable and influential books of the nineteenth century” on its back cover, and Dostoevsky’s Notes ...
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Vocation comes from the Latin ‘voco–to call’. This is the same concept as a priest or religious calling or vocation. Vocational training or education gets a pretty bad rap these days however. After having just prepared an 18 page thesis on vocational education in schools I am a bit dazed and confused. I have been ...
When list-topping male baby names like Jacob, Christopher, and Ethan begin to seem tired, prospective parents turn to music, sports, geography, religion, and other realms for inspiration. For bookish parents who loved their literature classes, fictional characters often provide ideas for an unusual or meaningful names. Books abound with remarkable male names, so the literary ...
The narrator’s standpoint in the short novel, The Double, by Fyodor Dostoevsky is an unorthodox yet effective literary tool used by the author in order to further bring the audience into the many layers of this work of literature. The narration is done in the third person, but it is limited to the views of ...
Do you ever feel down and need a mood lifter? Do you see someone you care about feeling sad whom you would like to cheer up? Something that works wonders for the mood is a quote about happiness. I love reading quotes about happiness when I am not feeling that great. Quotes about happiness seem ...
At the time of this article, the cause of Ted Kennedy’s seizure is unfortunately a malignant brain tumor, though most people who’ve had seizures (and aren’t previous victims of stroke) don’t always get a definitive answer of what the cause was. Medications usually help keep it under control and they usually don’t have to worry ...
The majority of people in the world today do not seem especially fond of mathematics. A recent survey of things people greatly disliked rated mathematics near the top of the list! But they should realize mathematics can be an extremely fascinating field packed with beauty and wonder. No, I am not referring to the long ...
There are many dreams through out Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, however, Raskolnikov’s mare dream is particularly important in the novel, Raskolnikov slowly goes through a metamorphosis in the novel that marks critical changes in his morals and the mare dream marks the first major change of heart and moral that he has. Because the ...
