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  • Fundamental Principles Of The Metaphysics Of Morals
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    Kant states (38, ) "act as if the maxim of thy action were to become by thy will a universal law of nature". This "categorical imperative" forms the basis of his book, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals. Though at times his writing is confusing Kant lays out his logic as to what a categorical imperative is. Kant divides the book into three sections. The first explains the transition from everyday moral beliefs to the philosophy of those morals. The transition from popular moral ...
  • Metaphysics And Science
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    Bringing "metaphysical mind set" into my life has been a tremendously rewarding experience. It made me realize that most often humans have propensity for getting by something with the least possible expenditure of thought because thinking appears to be hard and burdensome to them. However, tackling something with a minimum of thought is like driving in twilight with no lights on. According to Heidegger, it is a downright hindrance to pure objective employment of one's intellect, which amounts to...
  • Poets With Many Lyric And Dramatic Minds
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    CIRCUMFERENCE "My business is circumference". Emily Dickinson in a letter to Colonel Higginson, July 1862. For some centuries English critics have been at work to revise or apply the term metaphysical given John Donne and his school. The word does very well, I think, if we use it of poetry, to describe a state of mind, not to designate a system of thought with the exactitude of the philosopher or the scientist. "Dryden gave the term metaphysical to the odd terminology of Donne's poetic philosoph...
  • Chaos In The World
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    Metaphysics Metaphysics is the philosophical study whose object is to determine the real nature of things to determine the meaning, structure and principles of whatever is insofar as it is. (Britannica. com). So if the sole purpose of metaphysics is to determine the true meaning of things but everything isn't absolute what is the purpose of metaphysics? The nature of the world can be a ever changing thing. Depending on the generation, part of the world or even when you were born into your family...
  • God In The Poems Of Herbert
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    George Herbert's brilliant ingenuity lies in the simplicity and sincerity of his poems. What makes Herbert a unique poet in the history of English literature is his intimate love for god. God, in the poems of Herbert is the loving father, and Herbert;'s tone of intimacy startles readers. As a poet, h is quite than donne. Douglas bush says (of Herbert) " he does not electrify the the nerves so often, so startlingly as donne, but he is truly religious". Herbert excels in the description of the ser...

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