Noun1.dithyramb- a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing piece of writing,written material,writing- the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is excellent";...
"The simple meaning of the phrase is that if one is skeptical of existence, that is in and of itself proof that he does exist."[93] These two first principles—I think and I exist—were later confirmed by Descartes's clear and distinct perception (delineated in his Third Meditation from...
Goethe also began writing a play about Prometheus in about 1773;it was unfinished and only published posthumously in 1830. [2]Shelley wrote:“The moral interest of the fable,which is so powerfully sustained by the sufferings and endurance of Prometheus,would be annihilated if we could conceive ...
The individual names for books in this series were decided posthumously, based on a combination of suggestions Tolkien had made during his lifetime and the titles of the existing volumes — viz: T Book I: The Return of the Shadow O Book II: The Fellowship of the Ring L Book III: The ...
In the spring of 1918, German classical scholar Richard Heinze gave a series of lectures on Roman culture and literature to German troops in Bucharest which were published posthumously:Die augusteische Kultur, ed. Alfred Körte (Leipzig: Teubner, 1930; 2nd ed. 1933, rpt. Darmstadt: Wissenschaft...
Shankaracharya and all other commentators made the tremendous mistake to think that the whole of the Vedas spoke the same truth. Therefore they were guilty of torturing those of the apparently conflicting Vedic texts which go against their own doctrines, into the meaning of their particular schools...
(1) What is the meaning of the word “way”? “Way” here means a course of action or manner of doing something. (2) Why was the way embarrassing? It was embarrassing because Oppenheimer was very rude in interrupting speakers at Born’s seminars, yet at the same time his scienti...
, but instead of relegating the racism that is so often found in “well-meaning liberal” space to a parenthetical, the book addresses it head-on, boldly naming the confusion, fear, and trauma that can so often come with being the only person who looks like you in any given room. —...
Interpreting it as a coy reference to homosexuality, the prosecution demanded that Wilde explain its meaning. He characterized it, in part, as “a great affection of an elder for a younger man…such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of ...
The Name of the Rose, novel by Italian writer Umberto Eco, published in 1980. Although it stands on its own as a murder mystery, it is more accurately seen as a questioning of the meaning of ‘truth’ from theological, philosophical, scholarly, and histo