Consolation of Philosophy

Thetis seems to believe that Achilles is destined for a short, unhappy life. However, Achilles is given a choice within the course of the story that could have saved him from his horrible fate. He has the choice to go home, or stay and fight. He says, My fates long since by Thetis were disclosed, And each alternate, life or fame, proposed; Here, if I stay, before the Trojan town, Short is my date, but deathless my renown: If I return, I quit immortal praise For years on years, and long-extended

Although many people do not deserve to be trusted, it is always better to have faith in a person than assume the worst. If the worst was always assumed than no person would be trusted and there would be no peace. With his intellectuality and religiousness, Isaac Behavis Singer explores “[h]is strict religious training [that] often conflict[s] with his secular interests, in his fiction, through characters who grapple with faith and skepticism” (Wilson). Singer’s “Gimpel the Fool” is an exact representation

way, “American pragmatism connects the American experimental and inventive attitude with older philosophical ideas” (Stumpf 397). Pragmatism first appeared in the late nineteenth century, but was only widely accepted after World War II. This philosophy assumed that life has a purpose and that rivals theories about man and the world have to be tested against this purpose. Pragmatism caught on in the United States because Americans were focused on results and achieving their goals (Troxell 1).

unscathed and on a path, I would claim as my own. As a firm believer in my tried and tested common sense way of being, I would say that I was not initially open to critically thinking about the foundations that make me, me. However, after reading “Consolation for Unpopularity” by Alain De Botton (2000, 3-42) I have

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a play written by the famous playwright, William Shakespeare. This wonderful story of two star-crossed lovers, that are doomed by fate was written in 1595. Because Romeo and Juliet was written during the 1500’s, one can trace elements of this story back to both the English Elizabethan age and the European Renaissance. Traces of the Elizabethan age are found throughout the piece, one association to the Elizabethan age is the fact that Romeo and Juliet is actually

What changes is rather the understanding of art's content what in the late stages of his work Nietzsche calls the ‘Wisdom of Dionysus’, an expression he already employs in BTlvii. However, now this wisdom is not a source of consolation anymore, but rather of an attitude pushing toward the affirmative overcoming of oneselflviii. This wisdom, flows from a proper metaphysical understanding of life, which is now finally unbounded by any suspect metaphysical duality. Hence, I hold

Throughout the history of philosophy, the thoughts and works of two men have intertwined their way into the philosophers to follow. The two men were followers of Socrates; thus, technically, Socrates can take some of the credit. These two men are Plato and Aristotle. The Platonic and Aristotelian ideas of philosophy are contradicting but equally represented in their influence. Plato believed that to find truth, one must look to the metaphysical world beyond reality. He believed this because he thought

of the Roman empire, in his 40’s he was arrested for suspected conspiracy with the Eastern Roman Empire and was eventually put to death at the age of about 44/45. Whilst in prison Boethius wrote his book, ‘The Consolation of Philosophy’ where he discusses in great depth with Lady Philosophy issues with God’s omniscience. In his writings, Boethius identifies an issue with God’s foreknowledge, our personal autonomy and the impact of how we are to be judged as when we enter the life after this. He identifies

contradics existentialisms idea of determining your own development through acts because if one is looking at a higher power to dictate how they should act them they aren't determining their lifes. Sartre on the other was an atheist and lived his life based on philosophy his ideas were Influenced by other people, in his view of existentialism people shoudn't be influenced by others but he himsefl was true individuality is impossible. Sartre doesn't  deserve to be called the father of existentialism that honor should

events and even other people manipulated. This manipulation is caused by a variety of powerful external forces such as those of human culture and the media. With the help of external sources such as Alain de Botton’s “Consolation for Unpopularity” from The Consolation of Philosophy, C. Wright Mills’ “The Promise” from The Sociological Imagination, and Mick Broderick’s lecture on mediating mass violence it becomes possible to identify these forces in action as the psychological traits and structural