Since the time of Ancient Greece, philosophers have attempted to define the ultimate reality of the universe. In these early times, two primary schools of thought formed with regard to this reality, or metaphysics. These were Idealism and Naturalism. Plato, the originator of Idealism, argued that basic thoughts, or ideals, formed the basis for all ...
Sophocles’ play Antigone demonstrates how his players are character types representative of certain concepts. The main characters, Antigone and Creon, represent either idealism or pragmatism respectively, and are completely devoid of compromise. Idealism is the act of envisioning things in an ideal form and pursuing that ideal. This concept applies to Antigone, her belief in ...
Candidates: Republican Party: Warren Harding (Ohio) and Calvin Coolidge (Massachusetts) Democratic Party: James Cox (Ohio) and Franklin Roosevelt (New York) Socialist Party: Eugene Debs (Indiana) and Seymour Stedman (Illinois) Election Results: Harding/Coolidge: 404 electoral votes, 16.1 million popular votes Cox/Roosevelt: 127 electoral votes, 9.1 million popular votes Debs/Stedman: 0 electoral votes, 915,000 popular votes Summary: ...
Thomas Love Peacock’s The Four Ages of Poetry stands as a near-perfect archetype for perhaps the finest type of negative critical evaluation, one that defiantly provokes the creators of the work it is criticizing while elegantly pointing out the problems in the work itself and at the same time issuing a heartfelt call for wholesale ...
