Socrates vs. People of Athens.
The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David (1787) IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Socrates: Petitioner: No. αα-ωωωω v.:...
Socratic Method.
The relation between virtue and knowledge is one of the main Socratic concerns, which, in further development, leads to a view of human...
Sovereignty of the Good.
In the essay “Idea of Perfection” Iris Murdoch brought up an example of a mother (M) and her daughter-in-law (D). The example illustrates...
Insaf.
It was a workday when Insaf asked me if we could go to downtown after class. She wanted to buy socks at H&M, located near Coplay station...
Psycho: Then and Now.
In 1960’s Hitchcock breaks the genre and changes audience’s perception of horror once and forever, by adding psychological thrill to it....
Audition.
Castrated Otherness, or slasher’s ability to transform sexual difference is what Audition all about. Asami, a female- monster with the...
Aristotle: Flying Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
In 1963, Oregon, recidivist criminal Randle McMurphy is moved to a mental institution after serving a short sentence on a prison farm for...
Kantian Analyses of Blue Jasmine
Blue Jasmine is a 2013 American dark comedy-drama written and directed by Woody Allen. The film tells the story of a rich Manhattan...
Aristotelian Analyses of the Film “Doubt”.
When the principal (Meryl Streep) of a Bronx Catholic High School accuses a popular priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) of pedophilia, a...
Cavell on Hitchcock.
Two Hitchcock’s suspense thrillers Vertigo and North by North West shift from the main female characters to the main male characters and...