is dr.faustus an aristotelian tragic hero?
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Yes, he goes through the several stages seen in Oedipus.
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I tell you now a story of beauty and tragedy. It begins with Orpheus, the best musician that ever lived. One strum of his lyre, one note sung, and beasts would crawl to him, rocks would move to be closer, trees would leave their places to be near to him. They called him a sorcerer for his power, and perhaps he was, for he was the son of the Muse Calliope.\nHe lived his life simply and carelessly until the day he met Eurydice. She was a Dryad, and their love was perfect and unbreakable. Aristaeus, who saw Eurydice's beauty and desired it, tried to take her unwillingly. She ran from him. Ran in terror, without thought to her step, and so it was she stepped on a viper in her flight. The venom of its bite killed her at once, and Orpheus was inconsolable. His grief was bitter, but he did not let it lull him into a stupor. He decided to take action.\nWith his lyre, Orpheus descended into the Underworld. A normal mortal would have perished any number of times, but Orpheus had his lyre and his voice and he charmed Cerberus - the three-headed monster dog of Hades who guarded the Underworld - into letting him pass. Facing Hades and his cold Queen Persephone he played for them his sorrow at the loss of his love. The heart that was frozen by Hades' abduction melted in Persphone's breast and a tear rolled down her cheek. Even Hades could not help weeping. They let Orpheus through to Eurydice, but warned him very carefully: Eurydice would follow him into the light of the world and once she entered the sunlight she would be changed from a shade back to a woman. But if Orpheus doubted, if he looked back to see her, she would be lost to him forever.\nOrpheus heard and rejoiced. He turned and left the dark hall of Hades and began his ascent back to life. As he walked he rejoiced that his wife would soon be with him again. He listened closely for her footfall behind him, but a shade makes no noise. The closer to the light he got, the more he began to believe that Hades had tricked him to get him out of the Underworld, that Eurydice was not behind him. Only feet away from the light Orpheus lost faith and turned around. He saw Eurydice, but only for a moment as her shade was whisked back down among the other dead souls. She was gone.\nOrpheus tried again to enter the Underworld and demand her return, but one cannot enter twice the same way - and no other way was open to him. All that was left to him was death.\n\nHere the story changes. There are different stories of his death. Some say he played so mournfully that his songs called for death, and that the animals who surrounded him tore him apart, weeping as they did. Some say it was Maenads in a frenzy who ripped the singer to shreds. Some say he was struck down by Zeus for disclosing mysteries that were meant to be kept sacred. Either way, he was torn apart, and much of him was thrown to the winds. But the Muses mourned the death of their son and prodigy, and saved his head to sing forever.
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Well, he wasn't a lunatic.\n\nWas he a genius?  His Origin of the Species was definitely revolutionary and is relevant to this day.\n\nI suspect that you may be a "strict creationist," however, which poses another question.\n\nAre you a lunatic?  (You aren't a genius.)
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a blessing because of the enlightenmet (being who we're talking about, that's an odd word to use\na curse because the darkness of his books made genius look like madness
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Shakespeare in his day was considered populist - in the same way Jerry Springer is populist today. He put bums on seats.\n\nErnst Hemingway was obsessed with the 'quest for meaning' - very existentialist, overhyped stuff.\n\nShakespeare's genius was that he popularised relationships.\n\nHemingway's genius was that he popularised 'neurosis'.\n\nI'd go for Shakespeare's relationships more than Hemingway's Freudian "I'm-so-lonely-and-highly-strung" nonsense anyday.
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If I'm not mistaken he was an illegitimate son of a peasant girl and a man of breeding. He went and lived with his father, now as a bastard, and being brought up in a one parent family, you can either blame the world for your problems, or you use it as a means to propel you into making something of yourself. This certainly happened with Leonardo, single handedly starting a movement in painting and science, Renaissance man owes a debt of gratitude to a great modern man..... \nBut was he alien, I certainly hope not. I would like to think that men like him are proof that all human beings can aspire to greatness.....
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This question is posed at the lowest point in Hamlet's life; father dead (murdered by his uncle), mother marries the uncle, who then plots Hamlet's own death.\n\nTo be, or not to be, that is the question: \n\nthe question posed by Hamlet – a trained mind; the question posed by the play centrally itself. The infinitive form ‘To be’ and ‘not to be’ posits a single compelling choice: Being or Non-being. It is the most radical choice we can make, suicide. \n\nWhether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer \nThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, \nOr to take arms against a sea of troubles \nAnd by opposing end them. \n\n\nThe question is re-expressed in terms of nobility of action; that is, whether it is nobler to endure or nobler to commit suicide. This is not a moral outlook. Rather it is chivalric as the metaphor ‘slings and arrows’ and the apparently mixed metaphor of taking up ‘arms against a sea of troubles’ suggests. The battle against ‘outrageous fortune’ is hopeless since it can marshal a ‘sea’ of force against which, as the mixed metaphor suggests, King Canute resistance is futile. However, by opposing one might successfully provoke one’s own destruction at fortune’s hands, which would end the matter honourably.
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Philosophiae Doctor (Doctor of Philosophy).
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The Father of Modern Medicine: Hippocrates\nHis Life\nHippocrates lived between 430 and 370 B.C. He was born on the island of Cos, Greece. He had been taught medicine by his father Heracleides as well as by the most famous teachers of that time.\n\nHippocrates made his career as a house-to-house physician, the so called periodeut. He had founded the Coyan Medical School that later on competed with the Knidean Medical School. For a long time he practiced in Thrace and died in old age in Larissa in Thessalia.That is about all we know of his life. \n\n\n\nThe Hippocratic Oath\nI swear by Apollo the physician and Aesculapius, and Health, and All-heal, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability and judgement, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation. \nTo reckon him who taught me this Art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him, and relieve his necessities if required; to look upon his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they shall wish to learn it, without fee or stipulation; and that by precept, lecture, and every other mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge of the Art to my own sons, and those of my teachers, and to disciples bound by a stipulation and oath according to the law of medicine, but to none others.\n\nI will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgement, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion. \n\nWith purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art. I will not cut persons labouring under the stone, but will leave this to be done by men who are practitioners of this work. Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further, from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves. \n\nWhatever, in connection with my professional service, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret. \n\nWhile I continue to keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art, respected by all men, in all times. But should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot. \n\n\n\nHis Work\nHippocrates wrote some seventy books which as widely known as the Hippocratic Corpus. During his era medicine became a science and the profession had to be underpinned with logic and theory. The human body was thought to consist of four humours - yellow bile, blood, phlegm, and black bile. They were characterised by the same properties - dry, hot, wet and cold as the four elements - fire, air, water, and earth. \n\nOne generalised -and of course incorrecrt- theory was that disease was due to an imbalance of the fluid portions of the body. Hippocrates studied physiology, anatomy and evident, immediate and obscure causes of disease.
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Nostradamus was not a mathematician, astronomer, scientist or predictor of the future.\n\nHe was however a crack-pot.
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No - the philosopher Plato believed in elitism were only the educated were worthy.
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Byronic hero\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\nJump to: navigation, search\nThis article or section does not cite its references or sources.\nYou can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations.\nA theme that pervades much of Byron's work is that of the Byronic hero, an idealized but flawed character whose attributes may include:\n\nhaving conflicting emotions, bipolar tendencies, or moodiness \nself-critical and introspective \nstruggles with integrity \nhaving a distaste for social institutions and social norms \nbeing an exile, an outcast, or an outlaw \na lack of respect for rank and privilege \nhaving a troubled past \nbeing cynical, demanding, and/or arrogant \noften self-destructive \ntroubles with sexual identity (but can be heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, or of repressed sexuality) \nloner, often rejected from society \nNot only is the character a frequent part of his work, Byron's own life could cast him as a Byronic hero. The literary history of the Byronic hero in English can be traced from Milton, especially Milton's interpretation of Lucifer as having justified complaint against God. One of Byron's most popular works in his lifetime, the closet play Manfred, was loosely modeled on Goethe's anti-hero, Faust. Byron's influence was manifested by many authors and artists of the Romantic movement during the 19th century and beyond. An example of such a Romantic hero is Heathcliff from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. A 20th-century military example is Major T.E. Lawrence as portrayed by Peter O'Toole in the film Lawrence of Arabia. Examples from science fiction television are the characters The Doctor from Doctor Who and Kerr Avon from Blake's 7. The Byronic hero is also featured in many different contemporary novels, and it is clear that Lord Byron's work continues to influence modern literature.\n\n ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byronic_hero )
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A decided influence on the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and Sir Francis Bacon and on the thought of such modern political theorists as Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca, Georges Sorel, and Robert Michels, Machiavelli has been called the founder of empirical political science, primarily on the strength of the Discourses and The Prince. Taken in historical perspective, it is understandable that The Prince should have dwarfed Machiavelli's other works. For with this slim treatise the author confronted the ramifications of power when its procurement and exercise were notably peremptory" not only in his own country but throughout Europe as well. Commentators have come to weigh the integrity of Machiavelli's controversial thought against the pressing political conditions which formed it. Some, like Roberto Ridolfi, have endeavored through their studies to dislodge the long- standing perception of Machiavelli as a ruthless character: "In judging Machiavelli one must ... take account of his anguished despair of virtue and his tragic sense of evil.... [On] the basis of sentences taken out of context and of outward appearances he was judged a cold and cynical man, a sneerer at religion and virtue; but in fact there is hardly a page of his writing and certainly no action of life that does not show him to be passionate, generous, ardent and basically religious." "Far from banishing religion or ethics from politics," Peter Bondanella has stated in European Writers, "Machiavelli created a new religion out of politics, with all its fateful implications for modern intellectual history." \n\n\nthere are many sites on the subject just search machiavelli.  Many have wrote much on his impact through the ages.  He was a brilliant man and influenced many.
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I would hope so.\nRenaissance is the name of the great intellectual and cultural movement of the revival of interest in classical culture that occurred in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- a period which saw the transition from the Middle Ages to modern times  With this came an understanding of the need to not only learn, but develop.\nAccordingly, with all the mistakes we have made, would we not fess up to the fact we are such dummies, and move onwards to develop this sad and sick place.\n   Can we not finally learn from the rediculous things we have done to this place and ourselves?.
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Any of the topics at the following links could make a good essay on Death of A Salesman --and some of them could help with the topic you mentioned, "a tragedy about a tragic hero."
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There is a limit to genius but there is no limit to stupidity. Mother Theresa did not have a boyfriend and was happier than most people. A guy in NJ set his girlfriend on fire. You are more likely to be killed by someone you know than a stranger. So that means someone with no friends is safer than others.\n\nThe U.S. has increasing rates of anxiety and depression. Is happiness a matter of cosequences or a state of being? St Francis of Assisi did not have a girlfriend but was happier than anyone else around. Why? How can someone be really happy or peaceful if they are always worried on a deep level that their spouse and children could be killed at any moment or anything bad happening.\n\nSt Franci had total and complete trust. He never worried. He was fearless. That is the only way to be peaceful and happy.
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im guessing this was inspired by me\n\n:) just kidding of course\n\nthough the guy who sells me used batteries on the train seems well versed in the existentialist philiosophies of albert camus "An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. "