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Detachment and Asceticism, 2003.
An philosophical discussion on detachment and asceticism.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper provides a philosophical discussion of how the concepts of "detachment" and "asceticism" are merely an attempt to escape the human condition. It defines detachment and how it varies from one person to another and gives examples of well-known individuals.
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" Detachment is a release from pain and desire that often manifests relief relaxation and tranquility in the individual. In Ways of Wisdom it is argued that people who have the capability for detachment do not engage in self-deception or inner ..."
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Sexual Asceticism in Rome, 2005.
An analysis of the rise of sexual asceticism in early Christian Rome.
2,190 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 68.95
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Asceticism, which exploded in popularity with the adoption of Christianity as the official religion of Rome, is a concept not so readily defined. It took many forms, and meant many different things to many different people. This paper looks at the leading proponents of the ideas of asceticism and marriage in the church to further unravel the mysteries of the early years of Christianity and Constantinople. The paper also touches on a few specific groups of aesthetics, such as the Encratites.
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Encratites
Monasticism
John Chrysostum
Jovinianism
Augustine of Hippo
Women and Sexual Asceticism
Conclusion
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"Encratites were essentially an early sect, or group of sects who, based on their views concerning the origin of matter, abstained from eating meat, drinking alcohol, or getting married. They are very interesting in their development. Stemming from Stoicism and other generic branches of aestheticism, this group devoted their lives to chastity in all forms. Because they rejected marriage and considered all sexual encounters to be evil, they formulated theories that claimed all women to be evil beings. Also, as they were not predispositioned to eat animal products, they saw all alcohol as being given from Satan himself. After a certain period of decline, the Encratites were back in full swing and became known as Severan Encratites."
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Attachment vs. Detachment to this World, 2002.
This essay focuses on the theme of attachment vs. detachment to "this world" through the lens of Tokugawa Japanese culture.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 80.95
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This will include a comparison of two basic works, including Matsuo Basho's poetry and Chikamatsu Monzaemon dramatic writing. Both artists reveal very similar themes, including humanity's connection to nature and the overall tragedy of the human condition. The works were expressed in a simple language that reached all people, including commoners.
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Asceticism and the Instinct of Workmanship Within Capitalism, 2001.
An analysis and comparison of the theories of Max Weber and Thorstein Veblen.
3,355 words (approx. 13.4 pages), 7 sources, $ 95.95
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This paper begins with Weber?s account of the existence and persistence of asceticism within the development of capitalism in the west, thus providing a backdrop for the elucidation of Veblen?s instinct of workmanship. The two concepts converge when one?s ?industry and frugality? meets the other?s ?bias toward serviceability and not waste.? The paper uses this juncture to compare asceticism and the instinct of workmanship and follow Weber and Veblen?s separate paths on the road toward a modern capitalism. While there are some similarities along the way, they arrive at somewhat different conclusions.
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"Within Economy and Society and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Weber explicitly discusses the crucial role of a specific type of asceticism in the development of modern occidental capitalism. Within a religious context he characterizes (he admits, particularly and narrowly) the ?ascetic? as one with a ?methodical procedure for achieving religious salvation? (Weber 1978: 541). Given this portrayal, with its emphasis on salvation, the world in which the ascetic exists, and subsequently moves beyond, assumes a distinct centrality. The world from a religious perspective is the social sphere of mankind that is intrinsically saturated with temptation?those ?ethically irrational? sensual pleasures and the concomitant proclivities toward ?complacent self-sufficiency and self-righteousness? that are counterproductive to the divine accomplishments necessary for salvation (1978: 542). As a Weberian ascetic, one?s ?methodical procedure? of living may emphatically engage this world of temptation or resolutely reject it."
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Committed and Detached Normative Statements, 2006.
A discussion of the views of Joseph Raz and H.L.A. Hart regarding the distinctions between committed and detached normative statements, and between external and internal statements made about the law.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 64.95
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This paper examines the distinctions drawn between committed and detached normative statements, as well as between external statements about the law and internal statements made by those who accept the law. It focuses particularly on the views of Joseph Raz and H.L.A. Hart regarding this issue. The paper asserts that both Raz and Hart tap into the internal viewpoint of a person on whether one accepts a rule or not as law, but only at a superficial level. Raz's 'committed statement' and 'detached normative statement' parallel Hart's 'internal statement' and 'external statement' respectively. On this level, the paper posits that Raz's theory supplements Hart's theory. It concludes, however, that there are subtle differences between the two and that Raz's ideas bring Hart's theory to a different level.
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"Raz contends that the acceptance of rules of recognition is a moral decision, not just a matter of fact as Hart asserts. In Practical Reason and Norms (1990), Raz states that 'Intuitively, it is always the case that one ought to do whatever one ought to do on the balance of reasons', which is the core of Raz's theory of practical reasoning. He suggests that reasons can be categorised into first and second order reasons. An example of a first order reason: 'I bought a bottle of champagne, and because I love drinking champagne, I have a first order reason for drinking it'. A second order reason that counteracts my first order reason could, for example, be that 'I promised the bottle of champagne for my friend to drink'. This second order reason (i.e. a promise) excludes further deliberation as to whether I want to drink the champagne."
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Quest Literature, 2003.
Examines the cultivation of detachment in this form of literature.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, $ 39.95
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The paper examines Voltaire's "Candide" and Wu Ch'eng-En's "Monkey." It shows "Monkey" to be representative of the Buddhist understanding of detachment.
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"The Pursuit of a Suitable Detachment
Quest literature such as Voltaire's Candide and Wu Ch'eng-En's Monkey often provides insight into cultural, philosophical, and religious interpretations of government, nature, man, and religion itself. In the two ..."
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Andy Warhol's "16 Jackies", 2008.
This paper discusses how the "16 Jackies" were manipulated by Andy Warhol to portray the emotional detachment of society caused by the mass media.
828 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 29.95
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The paper explains that Andy Warhol helped make viewers aware of the way that modern imaging affects emotive response. The paper shows how Warhol multiplied the poses of Jackie Kennedy in order to illustrate how the images were repetitive and thus desensitized by the mass media.
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"The 16 Jackies by Andy Warhol was created after the assassination of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963. The 16 images presented in the series are merely reflecting four different poses of Jackie Kennedy before and after the death of her husband, the president. The four images (from top to bottom) reflect Jackie coming into Love Field in Dallas, Texas, after the flight; the next image is Jackie at the swearing in ceremony of Lyndon B. Johnson after JFK's death; Jackie grieving at the capitol; and finally, Jackie smiling in the car right before JFK was assassinated. With each image there are three duplicates that simply follow a repetitious sequence, much like one would see in a film roll. In this manner, the images are stacked upon one another, yet they all reflect a similar pose that depict Jackie at various stages of experience before and after her husband's death."
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"The Coup De Grace", 2002.
An analysis of the short story "The Coup De Grace" by Ambrose Bierce. The paper shows how the author's style impacts the way war is perceived.
3,335 words (approx. 13.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 95.95
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Ambrose Bierce successfully de-glamorized war by depicting the grueling realities of battle in an era when war was deemed romantic. The paper describes the story and introduces the main character. The paper analyzes the use of nature in the short story and shows how counting and numbers are used to project the detached tone throughout the setting. The paper demonstrates how a transition is made in the story from one of detachment to one of emotion.
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Introduction
Use of Descriptors in the Setting
Main Character
Nature
Transition: Detachment to Emotion
Resolution
Conclusion
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"In his detached style, Bierce relays a story describing the horrors of war after battle. He uses words like "tidying up a bit" to downplay the carnage in the first scene of The Coup De Grace. The narrator's voice is far removed. The attitude is nonchalant, yet the images are gruesomely spectacular. Bodies strewn about are treated with acute indifference."
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Amish Culture and Society, 2002.
A brief discussion on the Amish and their culture and customs.
630 words (approx. 2.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 22.95
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The following paper examines how the Amish are known to live non-resistant lives, and follow the teachings in the Bible in a literal sense. The writer takes a look at their detachment from the world outside Amish communities and discusses how this detachment is practiced through simple living, a trait notable of the Amish people
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"In the 1690's, they broke away from their organization, the Swiss Mennonites, and created a new group in the leadership of Jacob Amman (from which the word, "Amish" originated). In the year 1727, went to America to escape "religious prosecution" in their homeland Switzerland during the Swiss Protestant Reformation. The Amish were being persecuted during that time because they are Anabaptists, people who do not believe in infant baptism (Amish people are baptized only when they reach the age of 18). Aside from the United States, the Amish also went to Central America and Canada. At present, there are large communities of Amish people living in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, and Illinois "
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Harry Sylvester's "I Won't Take No Dive", 2007.
This paper uses formalism to analyze Harry Sylvester's short story "I Won't Take No Dive".
955 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper explains that the formalism mode of analysis revolves around examining the form of a literary work by analyzing functions within the textual system. The author points out that the content of the story provides the motivation for the action and the dialogue mirrors the immediate struggle between the two characters. The paper relates that the author uses the text to switch betweendialogue, third-person detached observation and an inner monologue to best convey the punch of the story, before switching to a closing detachment that underscores the final horror.
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"When the character, Al, goes into the ring and almost unconsciously wins the match by knockout, the action is described in third person and somewhat detachedly. Dialogue between Al and his manager intersperse this third-person narrative, forcing the reader to switch between being inside Al's head and examining his actions from a detached perspective. It is when the fight is over, and Al's coach deserts him, that the action settles most tellingly inside Al's mind. This is because, stylistically, all of the potential conflicts have been resolved, and the end is nigh."
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"The Golden Notebook", 2002.
An analysis of Doris Lessing's "The Golden Notebook".
1,715 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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?The Golden Notebook? provides a detached critique of Anna?s attitudes about writer?s block as expressed in ?Free Women.? Offering self-conscious critical detachment, ?The Golden Notebook? shows Anna?s ability to create lies within herself, independent of any external factors. This paper shows how this realization of her complete freedom to write produces Anna?s sense of responsibility to create ?Free Women?, in which she can ironically treat her prior belief system. Therefore, through her ?unremitting self-consciousness?, Anna reveals her ?complete freedom,? and finds the ability to generate writing.
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"According to Friedrich Schlegel, ?irony?stems from the artist?s critical self-detachment and unremitting self-consciousness; it denotes his complete freedom?and becomes manifest in the liberty with which he creates, decreates, and re-creates.? (Furst, 26) In Doris Lessing?s The Golden Notebook irony manifests itself in a similar manner as a means to sincerely meditate on the writing process. ?Free Women,? apparently the primary narrative, appears to be authentic articulation of the impossibility of producing a genuine text when words retain no transcendent meaning. The philosophy in ?Free Women? progresses toward a ?decreat[ion]? of literature reflected in Anna?s total disavowal of fiction writing. At the same time however, this progression leads to ?The Golden Notebook? which in turn subverts ?Free Women,? embracing writing in all its limitations and allowing for ?re-creation.? The recreation necessitates that ?Free Women? be reread with the added consciousness of ?The Golden Notebook,? revealing it as an ironic testament regarding the frustration of language. The enhanced reading of ?Free Women? indicates that only through an ironic understanding of language can the writer obtain a ?complete freedom? given the fact of perpetual productivity."
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Wilson versus Richard, 2006.
A review of Edmund O. Wilson's book 'Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge' and Mathieu Ricard's 'The Monk and the Philosopher'.
1,373 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper reviews and compares the work of Edmund Wilson and Mathieu Ricard. The paper takes a look at Wilson's book, 'Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge' and Mathieu Ricard's 'The Monk and the Philosopher'. According to the paper, Wilson believes that science must win out over more romantic understandings of the purpose of human existence. The paper then goes on to discuss how Ricard suggests the possibility of detachment of the mind from the body through the type of philosophical or religious practice that Wilson regards as futile, or at very least, less interesting and useful than science.
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"In contrast, to Wilson, Mathieu Ricard offer the more idealistic but perhaps comforting notion that the physical matter of the brain and mind are not synonymous. Ricard suggests the possibility of detachment of the mind from the body through the type of philosophical or religious practice that Wilson regards as futile, or at very least, less interesting and useful than science. Through meditation and achieving a higher sense of consciousness, the mind can control the physical aspects of the human body, suggests Ricard. Ricard believes that there is more to the brain than neurotransmitters and synapses. The human species cannot be subsumed into the sum total of its DNA. "
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Coptic Christianity, 2007.
A look at how Christianity has prospered and survived in Egypt and Ethiopia since the first century.
1,536 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 50.95
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This paper examines Christianity in Egypt after the personal conversion by Saint Mark. It briefly discusses the Arian heresy and asceticism. Also, the spread of Coptic Christianity to Ethiopia is shown. A great portion of the paper explains the Christian role as a minority in Egypt.
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"According to recent figures, Coptic Orthodox Christians comprise over thirteen percent of Egypt's population. This is significant particularly because Egypt currently has the largest population in Africa. Today, Coptic Christians comprise over fifty million followers, mostly in Africa. The largest concentration of these Christians is in Ethiopia, with smaller communities in Egypt and Eritrea. Most of the native Orthodox Christians in Egypt are centered in the southern portion of the country. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when Portuguese Roman Catholic missionaries went to East Africa to convert natives, they were surprised to see Ethiopia already being constituted of practicing Christians. "
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Nursing Ethics, 2007.
This paper discusses the DNR (do not resuscitate) order as an important ethical issue faced by nurses providing care to terminally ill patients.
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The paper overviews ethical concerns and the nursing practice standards in palliative care settings. The paper focuses on the ethical implications of the DNR (do not resuscitate) order from the nursing perspective. The paper maintains that good palliative care is all about reducing the distress of the patient as much as possible and helping him attain a peaceful end. The paper asserts that this can sometimes demand a sense of moral detachment.
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Introduction
The DNR (Nursing Implications)
Conclusion
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"The DNR (do not resuscitate) order is a request which advices against the use of Cardiopulmonary resuscitation for revival of the heart function of the patient who has a cardiac or pulmonary arrest. Typically, the request for DNR is given as an advance directive by the patient, but in cases where the patient is in comatose state the physician discusses it with the family before recording the DNR order. [Hanna Mari Hilden et.al, 2004] The DNR order in effect takes away the obligation on the part of the attending nurse or the physician to revive the failed heart using CPR. Nurses in palliative care have to face cases where the DNR is applied consistent with the patient's autonomy."
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The Genealogy of Morals, 2007.
A discussion of Friedrich Nietzsche's work "The Genealogy of Morals" which evaluates the value of moral judgments according to a genealogical method.
1,534 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper explains that Nietzsche's work, "The Genealogy of Morals", questions and evaluates the value of moral judgments according to a genealogical method, which in turn investigates the origins and meanings of various moral concepts. The paper further explains that "The Genealogy of Morals" discusses ascetic ideals or asceticism, a force that dominates modern thinking and life, and that Nietzsche views this as the expression of a weak and sick will that is unable to cope with its own struggle against itself.
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"The ascetic priest, Nietzsche writes, is the person who modifies the direction of resentment. While every suffering person instinctively look for the cause or agent of his suffering. The ascetic priest seeks living persons on whom he can unload his feelings in order to obtain relief from his mountains of resentment, revenge and similar torments. It his instinct to strike back as a merely reactive and protective measure or reflex .He needs them for emotional release and he must pretend utterly in order to produce it. He passes his guilt and vileness to others, assaults their past and present, look for what is dark and painful in these in indicating what needs to be healed. Finding cause, he blames it on others and thus keeps them forever bound to their guilt and to their need for his control (Nietzsche)."
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