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80Literature and Philosophy: Cartesian Dualism, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant's Copernican Revolution
Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is one of the most significant philosophers in Modern philosophy. This is because of many reasons far too broad for an article of this scope to examine. We can, however, examine one of his major contributions to...
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77Film Review and Criticism: Themes in Six Degrees of Separation
Six Degrees of Separation, a Hollywood film that interweaves the themes of human life and relationships against the backdrop of the post-modern temper, has inspired enough debate and interest in both its...
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71RPGs for the Playstation 3 (PS3): An Oldschool Perspective, Part 4
This is the fourth installment in the series on Playstation 3 RPGs. In this issue, we will turn our attention to a couple of Playstation exclusive titles, Demon's Souls and White Knight Chronicles. It seems rare for any system to get an...
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77Beer 101: Microbrewery Review: Boulder Beer/Rockies Brewery, Boulder Colorado
When the founders of Boulder Beer started brewing craft beer for the first time back in 1979, few if any of the people involved could have had the foresight to see that it would be the first craft brewery in...
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77Evolution in Literature: An Analysis of William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" and the Bible.
An Analysis of one of Blake's most popular and troubling poems. Blake famously subverts the biblical tradition he appropriates in this brilliant work.
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74The Great American Anti-Hero: Faulkner's Thomas Sutpen as the Uniquely American Version of Joseph Campbell's Archetype
“We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some...
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79Linguistic Origins & Etymology of the English Language: An Etymological Study of the Curious English Word, "Strapping".
An etymological study of a word or term is one that traces its development and usage throughout the past. These studies are often interesting because language always develops and changes for reasons. This...
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74American Classics in Literature: Interpreting the Climax of Edgar Allen Poe's Fall of the House of Usher
In his “The Philosophy of Composition” Poe tells us that he begins writing with “the consideration of an effect” (1598). Almost all of Poe’s poetry and fiction give evidence to support Poe’s...
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84Literature and Philosophy: Cartesian Dualism in Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy
The history of modern philosophy has been shaped, for the most part, since its infancy by the problems Renee Descartes encountered in his Meditations on First Philosophy and subsequent philosophers’...
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80Literary Origins: Socrates' Improbable Defense in Plato's Apology
One of Plato’s most well known and important works is his Apology . In it, Socrates, the central figure in the works of Plato, is put on trial for his life. The main accusation against him is that he...
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