How do you perceive art and what does it mean to you? For me, art is a way for me to fully express my feelings toward a subject and lose my mind in a void of fantasy and reality. Art has no format and is very unique. A time that I enjoyed viewing some exquisite pieces of art was at the Dali Museum j...

Our ancestors first sought to understand themselves and their surroundings through the invention of myths and the worshipping of gods. The Greeks, for example, created gods like Athena and Aries to explain the concept of wisdom and war respectively. I would like to think, contrary to common thought...

Dear Sir/Madam, As a fan of modern poetry, I would like to publicly express my outrage at the comments made by Peter Bloxham in his article, 'Poets Cornered' (The Australian Magazine, 9 June 2001). I believe that poetry, like most other things, is simply moving with the times, constantly adapting ...

Dupee, mozilla Philosophy The initial groundwork for Berkeley's position is the truism that the materialist is a skeptic. In the writing of his three dialogues, Berkeley develops two characters: Hylas (the materialist) and Philonous (Berkeley himself). Philonous draws upon o...

Literature is often viewed as a window to other worlds and alternate realities. It has also been referred to as a 'window to the past', which is a far more accurate quote than the speaker may have realized. Because the ability to communicate abstract thoughts in a spoken or written for...

Page 1 Plato is one of the most famous and influential philosophers of all time. Writing several books, pertaining to many different topics. He learned his skill from the father of modern philosophy and learned it well. Effecting countless minds of his time, and many more extending all the w...