...Transcendental Attributes of Being A research paper submitted to [Professor Name] In Partial Fulfillment of the requirements For The course [Course Name] [Seminary Name] By [Student Name] Place Date Introduction While Plato had also covered the notions surrounding the properties of being, Aristotle was the first to bring the term transcendental to the context of the attributes of being. Plato offered valuable insight regarding the four transcendental attributes of being. [1] Aristotle shaped the transcendentals in a specific manner and refined his own perspective. Later philosophers also expanded the discussion surrounding the transcendental attributes of being. These transcendentals become significant in the context of theology because they possess a link with Christian theology and unfold in the form of what man desires. For explicating the four transcendental attributes of being, it becomes significant to first explore the definition of an attribute. An attribute falls under the category of that aspect which does not exist in the form of the embodiment but originates from the same. As regards ‘being’, it can only give rise to what is also being and thus, a ‘being’ cannot spawn attributes or properties while discussing these terminologies in a firm manner. Nevertheless, while approaching the subject in a broader manner, an attribute can be defined for a specific perspective on being as long as it applies to each instance of being and overall entities that fall...
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...TRANSCENDENTAL PROPERTIES OF BEING By: MBAKWE NICHOLAS CHUKWUNWEIKE Introduction Metaphysics is not just a science in Aristotle’s conception of it, but one that distinguishes itself from all the particular sciences by firstly raising the question of the first and most universal causes and secondly by taking as its subject of consideration ‘being’ simply as ‘being’ in its most universal and in its most concrete sense as present in experience. Implicitly, being must be taken as analogous from the very beginning of the investigation, not in the sense that it would diffuse the unity of this science into a mere difference of differences, but in the sense that it would raise this science to a higher kind of unity according to an order of different degrees of being as they relate to a primary analogate as the one to which all relate more or less distantly. To delve more deeply into this analogous subject of consideration one must further distinguish transcendental properties that follow being in its analogous and transcendental sense. In the end, when the question of a first, universal cause of being as being, or of a summit of being that would be totally transcendent, is finally raised, all of this a priori conception of being as analogous according to different degrees with its corresponding degrees of oneness, activity, truth and goodness must be brought into play in relation to things as they come under sense experience as moved, caused, contingent and exhibiting different degrees...
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...The playwright Oscar Wilde uses humor to delineate the gravity of the society of the era when the play was written down. Underneath all the facade and the drama,their lies a very crude, rigid society which even deters a person to act according to one’s wish. The era when the play was written down was a very sensitive where the concept of middle class came into being. After the industrial revolution, London undergoes a rapid socio-economic change. People of the gentry became richer and a vivid line of distinction were formed between the rich and the poor. with economic benefits came a constant tension of maintaining one’s social status in the society.In order to do so people started residing to double standard living, a life for the public to witness and appreciate and a private life to suffice one’s heart’s desire.However this kind double standard living were only seen amongst the gentlemen, ladies were more into the protective shield of the household,perhaps thats why they didn’t have to pretend so much. They were never considered to be an active member of the society and were given trivial responsibilities and duties. However instances were found where their seeding passion were seen like the discovery of Cecily’s diary where she had penned down all her dreams and passion. It was perhaps the only place where she did not have to maintain her perfectly immaculate behavior and where she could be her own master. The act of bunburrying is nothing but letting one’s...
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...The movie Being John Malkovich, revolves around the dysfunctional life of an unhappy married couple and the absurd changes that take place in their lives, upon the discovery of a portal leading into John Malkovich’s subconscious mind. It follows an unemployed puppeteer, Craig Schwartz, on his quest to gain the recognition he desires. Craig Schwartz acquires a job as a file clerk for Lester Corp, located on the 7-1/2th floor. It is there that he discovers a secret door with a portal behind a filing cabinet. This portal transports whoever enters it into John Malkovich's head, enabling one to experience Malkovich's life through his eyes, or as Schwartz likes to put it, “in his shoes”(literally). Schwartz and his co-worker, who he's very fond of, exploit this by selling passes to the portal. The individual experiences and feelings that the characters had in the portal, raise existential questions. We are left questioning the idea of our minds and bodies being separate entities. Could we somehow transcend from our physical state? Are our bodies merely vessels that can be disposed of? Are we truly happy in our own shoes? And what lengths are we prepared to go to in order to survive? The movie begins with curtains opening, exemplifying a stage performance. And for a split second, between the opening of the curtains, and the puppet appearing for the first time; the viewer is tricked into thinking that they're watching a real performance. The puppet's exceptional portrayal of human...
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...The Perks of Being a Wallflower As teens or young adults you are still trying to figure out who you are and what you have to offer the world. There is so much pressure around teen’s every day of their lives. They do not know what is the right or the wrong choice, but certain influences and relationships help determine the choices they make. They need guidance and someone they can talk to, like a non-parental adult. This is an adult who wants to make a difference in the life of teens, and is someone they can rely on for support. Non-parental adults can come from many different socially-defined contexts: Teachers, coaches, or extended family. These adults play a tremendous role in teens lives’, which is exemplified well in Bill, a male adult character in Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Chbosky, Stephen: Pocket Books UK, 2009) is a novel set sometime in the late 1990s, and focuses on the life of a fifteen year old boy, Charlie. He is a high school freshman, who is painfully shy, but also a very raw, real, vulnerable, and honest character. Throughout the book you see Charlie develop many different relationships. In fact, Charlie finds himself battling some moments of depression and he might not have found his way out without those relationships. An example of a non-parental adult that really impacts Charlie throughout his first year in school would be his English teacher, Bill. Bill recognizes Charlie’s intelligence and writing...
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...English 202 8 June 2014 Final Paper In “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Oscar Wilde unmasks the societal contradictions of modern Victorian society. In a way this story is a Comedy of Manners because it makes fun of the idea of the upper class and how the people in it went about getting married. I think Wilde was trying to accomplish something when writing this story and that was to show how ridiculous the process of marriage was in the upper class in particular. His main point of this story is to show how shallow and hypocritical Victorian society is. The main two characters in the story are Jack and Algernon. They both have alter ego’s in order to escape the restraints that Victorian society impresses upon them. Jack is expected to take care of the young Cecily but he cannot resist the urge to party and have fun. As a result, he comes up with an alter ego named Ernest. He tells Cecily that Ernest is his younger brother and that he gets in trouble all the time. Being that he is the older brother he expresses that he has to get his Ernest out of trouble all the time when really he is just partying and escaping the life he really doesn’t want to live. Algernon also has an alter ego named Bunbury whose grave health conditions provide him with the excuse to escape to the country as and when he pleases. The fact that the two main characters have created alter egos to escape the life they are currently living shows that Wilde wanted to portray how people would do certain...
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...Summary The play opens in the morning room of Algernon Moncrieff’s flat in London. His servant, Lane, is arranging tea and Algernon is in another room playing the piano. Algernon enters and asks Lane if he has heard him playing. Lane says he did not think it was polite to listen. Algernon tells him that is terrible because while he does not play accurately, he plays with wonderful expression. It becomes apparent that Algernon’s aunt, Lady Bracknell, is coming for tea. The discussion turns to marriage when Algernon asks Lane why servants always drink the champagne during dinner parties. Lane informs him that bachelors always have the best wine. Algernon asks if marriage is so demoralizing. Lane informs us that he was married once but only as the result of a misunderstanding, so he is not sure. Lane exits; Algernon comments that Lane’s views seem lax and the lower orders have no use if they will not set an example. He comments that Lane’s class seems to have a lack of moral responsibility. Unexpectedly, Algernon’s friend Jack Worthing drops in. Jack resides most of the time in the countryside and is visiting town. Lane and Algernon are under the impression that Jack’s name is Ernest and refer to him as so. Jack is happy to learn that Lady Bracknell (Aunt Augusta) and her daughter Gwendolen are coming because he wants to propose marriage to Gwendolen. Algernon says that he will not be able to marry her because he flirts with her, which Aunt Augusta does not like. Furthermore,...
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...Analysis of the text: ``The Importance of Being Earnest´´. ``The Importance of Being Earnest´´ is a comedy written by Oscar Wilde in the year 1894. In the text, Oscar Wilde makes fun of the upper class in the Victorian Age society. The reason why he had written ``The importance of Being Earnest´´ was to irritate the Victorian society. He focused on the term bunburing, which means creating a false person or identity. The creation of a false person and the creation of a false identity take place in the text to masquerade the true intentions of the main characters, Jack and Algernon. There are five characters in this text; Algernon, Lady Braknell, Gwendolyn, Jack and Lane. Algernon, which is the owner of the house the story takes place in, is a bachelor who sometimes leaves London to help a sick friend of his. However, he is bunburying, since he has invented a fictive person, so he could get out off unpleasant situations, especially when it involves his Aunt, Lady Braknell. In this case, Algernon had invented a sick friend by the name of Bunbury, which is funny since the name suggests bunburing. Lady Braknell is the mother of Gwendelyn Fairfax and a perfect example of typical Victorian classism. She doesn’t want her daughter to marry Earnest, because she found out that he was an orphan. Her daughter, Gwendolyn, is in love with Earnest, who also loves her. Although she returns her affection towards Earnest, she is self-centered, since she desires only to marry a man named Earnest:...
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...The Importance of Not Being Earnest In a society where intricately developed double lives and irrevocable obsessions with ideals and fantasies are the norm, there is bound to be mass confusion and colliding paths. As a result, two significant questions arise: What is truth and who verifies its legitimacy? Oscar Wilde states in regards to his play, “We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality” (1829), which perfectly exemplifies the overall mindset of the characters in The Importance of Being Earnest and provides a broad template for reinterpretation. A focus on the seriousness behind the irony and epigrams within the play could be followed, or contrastingly...
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...As a novel of human reaction as well as development and growth the compelling epistolary novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower written by Stephen Chbosky expands our understanding and invokes a deeper interpretation of self discovery. In the perspective of an attentive individual with keen eyes name Charlie. Charlie has a longing to stay out of sight as an aloof eyewitness which is filled by his subdued adolescence recollections. In spite of the fact that the novel is composed in an epistolary manner, concentrating on a progression of letters sent to an undisclosed beneficiary the over planned his own position inside of his social connection. These epistles likewise give illumination about the agonies and tribulations of accomplishing compromise...
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...The perks of being a wallflower ”The perks of being a wallflower” is a novel written by Stephen Chbosky. It is the first of his novels and it was published in 1999. It contains 231 pages of adolescent fiction about teenagers and their encounters within school, sexuality, violence, parties and much more. This report starts with a summary of the book, descriptively introducing the prime characters and setting while leading to the conclusion At first, we’re introduced to Charlie the protagonist, who seems to be a rather smart, yet troubled boy. He’s 15 years of age and a recently freshman in High School. The novel is written in letters, starting with Charlie sending out letters to an anonymous receiver, while only giving his first name, to also remain unknown. Charlie doesn’t have many friends, considerably due to his major intellect compared to the other kids. He had a friend named Michael, who unfortunately killed himself for a reason Charlie didn’t know. He actually wondered a lot how Michael could avoid talking to him about his problem, which surely must’ve had a huge impact on his mental state of mind. Charlie and Michael used to do sports together, just to have something to do, not because they urged to, but because there wasn’t much for them elsewhere. Now, Charlie is pretty much alone and as for girls, Charlie doesn’t really know how to communicate with them either. The first person for Charlie to really talk to is a senior named Patrick who people calls “Nothing”....
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...“The real importance of Earnest is the thrill of brilliant repartee. And as we laugh, an amazing thing happens: Oscar Wilde comes alive.” The Washington Post commends the 2002 comedic motion picture version of Oscar Wilde’s well-known play The Importance of Being Earnest. The director, Oliver Parker, maintained the farcical humor of the original play while integrating cinematic staging elements such as elaborate costumes and deft acting to seamlessly create a new depiction of Wilde’s notorious play. The cast seamlessly portrays the originality of Wilde’s infamous characters: Jack played by Colin Firth, Algernon played by Rupert Everett, Gwedolen played by Frances O’Connor, and Cecily played by Reese Witherspoon. The amusing acting merged with...
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...The Perks of Being a Wallflower analysis The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the famous book written by Stephen Chbosky about the 15-year-old boy Charlie, who is both the main character and the narrator in the story. Charlie is writing a bunch of letters to his “friend” who we do not know but Charlie is telling this friend absolutely everything he experiences throughout his first year of high school. These experiences include both friends, love, family and death. As mentioned Charlie is a 15-year old boy who is just about to start high school. At first he seems to be confused about his feelings because he says on page 3 that; “I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.” He is also a strong person, even though he has a breakdown towards the end of the book, but he is still standing tall despite the fact that his best friend Michael shot himself and his Aunt Helen molested him as a child and died in a car accident. Charlie is a very observant person, he talks a lot about his family and his friends and how they are doing and that is what makes him a wallflower. Just like Patrick says to Charlie; “You see things and you understand. You’re a wallflower.” Charlie never says much but he sees things and he is aware of everyone’s feelings, like when he sees his sister’s boyfriend hitting her and then tells his teacher, Bill about it. He is also very sensitive and cries easily. He dreams about Sam naked and most boys would...
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...The Perks of Being A Wallflower Setting Although Charlie never said where he lived evidence reveals that Charlie lives in Pittsburgh in 1991. Plot Charlie is a 15 year old boy starting his sophomore year in high school. Charlie is a very smart sophomore and loves music. His English teacher often gives him books to read because he believes that he is smarter than most kids. In this novel letters are sent to an unknown person describing Charlie’s experiences. The letters talk about friends and family. His parents are complete opposites, His mother is shy while his father is very strong and stubborn. Charlie’s brother is away at Penn State and is a football player. Charlie and his brother only meet when the family has big events and him and his sister never got along. His sister is a senior in high...
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...If we look at the three branches of literature, poetry, prose and drama, those branches also have sub-branches, and on and on. Sometimes, from being presented all these different types of literature, we tend to forget that each type differs stylistically from other types, hence their classification as different types of literature, and among all these types of literature stands out one: the novel. One of the most common and widespread of all types of literature, novels can be found anywhere. It’s become so common that people just read it to, well, read it. As interesting a read as a particular novel may be, what’s more interesting than that (and what adds complexity to the novel) is the form which novels take, and, in particular, characteristics that it possesses that are in plain sight within the text, yet ignored in favour of just enjoying the story. According to Mikhail Bakhtin in his work “The Dialogic Imagination”, one of the main characteristics of a novel is what we call “heteroglossia”. Mikhail Bakhtin describes it as the “multiplicity of social voices and a wide variety of their links and interrelationships”. Simply put, it is the multiplicity of forms within the text that allow the text to be more far-reaching, and convey its message better. But why would, for example, Milan Kundera use it in “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”? Because this multiplicity in form allows the text’s author, Kundera in this case, the fluidity to ease into explanations about what happened...
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