The purpose of this article is to analyze the ideological components that sustain the notion of the vampire as fixed by the romantic poets, especially by Byron. In doing so, we will trace the socioeconomic changes in early nineteen century that influenced this vision. We will also examine how class and gender issues affect the portrayal of fatal males, such as the vampire, and femmes fatales in the poetry of several romantic poets.
Althusser – Competing Interpellations and the Third Text
With the exception of Nietzsche, no other madman has contributed so much to human sanity as has Louis Althusser. He is mentioned twice in the Encyclopaedia Britannica as someone’s teacher.
When the Morning Dawns
When darkness turns to day, the sun moves over the horizon and touches everything in sight. This movement across the landscape brightens everything. Such an illumination awakens us all. We rise with energy moving in and through us allowing us to create a new day. A day unique from all the rest and creatively woven into our soul.
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
I was always somebody who felt quite sorry for myself, what I had not got compared to my friends, how much of a struggle my life seemed to be compared to others. I was caught up in a web of negativity and needed someone or something to help me to escape.
Words To Live By?
Are there words to live by? Is it possible that we place too much importance on words, and that language can be as dangerous as it is helpful? Some new ideas on words.
A Brief History of Creation
How is there something from nothing? The Holophanic loop logic provides a new paradigm, a consistent and complete worldview that not only describes, but also creates whatever can be perceived or experienced.
Comment On the Importance of Human Life
The preservation of human life is the ultimate value, a pillar of ethics and the foundation of all morality. This held true in most cultures and societies throughout history.
Enlightenment is not just one state
My opinion is that enlightenment is not just one state but is a progressive and gradual establishing of states of consciousness.
Fact and Truth
Thought experiments (Gedankenexperimenten) are “facts” in the sense that they have a “real life” correlate in the form of electrochemical activity in the brain. But it is quite obvious that they do not relate to facts “out there”. They are not true statements.
On Being Human
Are we human because of unique traits and attributes not shared with either animal or machine? The definition of “human” is circular: we are human by virtue of the properties that make us human (i.e., distinct from animal and machine). It is a definition by negation: that which separates us from animal and machine is our “human-ness”.
Peace On Earth, A Wonderful Wish, But No Way
As long as people have the ability to think, there will be greed, envy, prejudice and anger. As long as those things exist, there will be wars. Most people believe, either religiously or secularly, in the rules set down in the Ten Commandments, but very few people can follow those rules all of the time because our ability to think causes us to want. Wanting causes us to break some or all of the rules. Humans are not perfect. If they were they would not be human.
Philosophy as a science
This article is for those who got started in studying philosophy and got confused. Here is some information on how to clarify some points that you dont seem to understand and be well prepared for a discussion that involves philosophical terms and matters.