In 1904, a U.S. Naval officer named Pinkerton rents a house on a hill in Nagasaki, Japan, for him and his soon-to-be wife, “Butterfly”. Her real name is Ciocio-san, (cio-cio, pronounced “chocho”: the Japanese word for “butterfly” is chō 蝶). She is a 15-year-old J...
It is well known that the Hegelian school is determined by a strict observance of Christianity as the religion of the unity of the Divine and the Human … the basic idea of Christianity is the atonement: that is, the sublimation of the intelligible and the sensual ...