Into the Abyss Marquis de Sade and the Enlightenment We are no guiltier in following the primitive impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her flood or the sea for her waves" - La Mettrie The eighteenth century embraced a secularized France in which the idea of ut...

The Contribution of Mise-En-Scene to the Central Conflict within Crimes and Misdemeanors by Chris Faris In Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), two parallel stories revolve about a central conflict portraying the human dilemma of making moral or spiritually guided choices versus e...

From where is the nature of morality derived? Is it in a universal theory that applies to all or is morality rather distinct to each culture? The former is referred to as the Universalist theory, and the latter is known as the Moral Relativist theory. Moral relativism is the view there is no univ...