conceptual schemes”, and the human minds or perceivers “cut up the world into objects when we introduce one or another scheme of description.” (Putnam p. 52) If the objects and the signs referring to them are equally mental or internal in Putnam’s sense than it is possible only in the scheme of description to say what matches what. He asserts that the reference is brought about after the discourse about an object and its referent, rather than before that. As Putnam understands reference being external
The post- independence period in the recent Indian history corresponds suitably with the ‘nodal period’, when a number of Indian writers of fiction in English try to explore and manifest Indian reality. In these writers, we do not find either the commitment of the earlier period or even the amused narration of the trials of middle class, trying to unite the past traditional outlook with the fast emerging realities of the modern living conditions. In this effort, the writers of the post independence
Chapter 2 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Review of Related Literature Cebu being one of the destination of local and foreign rest and recreation travelers, there is no question that its tourism industry has been increasing its number within this year. Morexette Erram a journalist from Cebu Daily News once reported, “For Cebu Provincial Tourism Office chief Boboy Costas, the numbers from DOT-7 were proof that Cebu remained as a top, favorite tourist destination in the country — for both local and foreign
developing “such widely diverse literary forms as the sea novel, the novel of manners, political satire and allegory, and the dynastic novel in which over several generations American social practices and principles are subjected to rigorous dramatic analysis” (Gray 49). Cooper felt committed to distinguishing American Language from British English In his works; he used native dialects of America to develop an American literary language as a sign of cultural independence. As the Second War of American
to the end of the Victorian age. Though the time- frame is clearly stated in the title, Porter has briefly but sincerely traced the cultural history of healing and doctoring in Europe since the Classical times, both in spiritual and pathological senses, and discussed the changing portrayal of the doctor-figure in literature, lithographs and painting through the early and later Tudor periods, and the Jacobean age – before coming to the 1650s. He uses the religious attitudes in early modern England
Introduction The following review will be on the book of English writer, “messenger” of realism in British literature, a satirist, wrote the so-called novel of manners – Jane Austen, called “Pride and Prejudice”. Her books are recognized as masterpieces and conquer the sincerity and simplicity of the plot against the background of a deep psychological penetration into the souls of heroes and ironic, mild, truly "British" humour. Jane Austen is still considered the "First Lady" of English literature
from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada and MPhil from Delhi University. She taught at Miranda College, New Delhi for over three decades and then took a sabbatical inorder to spend more time in writing. Her first novel Difficult Daughters published in 1998 won the Commonwealth Prize for the best first book in 1999. Her other novels are A Married Woman (2003), Home (2006), The Immigrant (2008) and Custody (2011). She also edited Shaping the World: Women Writers on Themselves, a work that documents
also of the Groundwork, is, in Kant’s view, to ‘seek out’ the foundational principle of a ‘metaphysics of morals,’ which Kant understands as a system of a priori moral principles that apply the CI to human persons in all times and cultures. In this sense, if Kant’s mature writings are labeled empty formalism, his ethics would not offer us any practical guidance. Rather, Kant tests these moral concerns in practice and in doing so we discover that the charge of empty formalism does not withstand careful
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin
Hegel’s empty formalism charge is paraphrased from the critique of patricidal reason, the limited interpretation views that there are dual sense of empty in Hegel’s empty charge. The first sense of ‘empty’ is equivalent to have both for and content. The second sense of ‘empty’ is the ‘determining’. Systematic Interpretation of Emptiness Charge views as Hegel’s empty charge a non-self-standing philosophical problem, irrespective of its historical context