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Reflections on Philosophy in Literature
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A STUDENT'S LOG AND INVESTIGATION OF NIETZSCHE, TOLSTOY, DOSTOEVSKY, SATRE, AND MORE
- Added on: Nov 13th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Ao2009
- Listed in: Philosophy Education & Learning
- Tags: literature philosophy tolstoy nietzsche dostoevsky satre
Recent Posts
The Necessity of Fiction
The novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel presents the concept of false reality and in doing so forced me to consider truth, reason, and faith. The majority of the story is an elaborate build up to and then description of a 16-year-old’s time trapped abo...
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
We often hear that every decision we make can be vital – from the amount of salt we choose to dust on our roasted chicken to what job we pursue to what god we pray to. Meursault seems to take an alternative approach.He does recognize that choice ex...
Hell
Has anyone ever told you you’re going to hell …and really meant it? Not out of anger but out of strong religious convictions? Has anyone ever told you that they fear for your? That they doubt your salvation to the utmost degree? This happened to ...
The Death Penalty
For years the death penalty has been an enigma for me. I simply cannot understand it for several reasons. First, how is death worse than life in prison? Decades of suffering and personal reflection seem much more suitable for the hard criminal than a...
Punishment: A New Perspective
Previously through our brief analysis of punishment in Crime and Punishment, we examined punishment from the perspective of who it effects and what purpose it serves. We came to the conclusion, although not definite, that punishment incorporates bo...
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The Stranger. Monsieur Meursault is the stranger in all senses of the word: an isolated outcast from society, an enigma to his fellow humans, and between himself and a normal man, he indeed is the stranger of the two. He comes off as oppressed – no...
