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Marriage – Fundamental Motives, Process of Courtship, Extra-Legal Devices and Intermezzo on Monogamy

The War Between the Sexes – The Feminine Attitude, The Male Beauty, Men as Aesthetes and The Process of Delusion

I have said that women are not sentimental, i.e., not prone to permit mere emotion and illusion to corrupt their estimation of a situation. The doctrine, perhaps, will raise a protest. The theory that they are is itself a favourite sentimentality; one sentimentality will be brought up to substantiate another; dog will eat dog. But an appeal to a few obvious facts will be enough to sustain my contention, despite the vast accumulation of romantic rubbish to the contrary.

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Spinoza’s Ethics of Strength of the Emotions in W Somerset Maughm’s Of Human Bondage

[ad_1] The writer probes on the complex world of W. Somerset Maughm’s protagonist in the novel Of Human Bondage, using the propositions the Jewish Portuguese philosopher Baruch Spinoza postulated in his book Ethics in 1674. Some of Spinoza’s propositions are as follows( Morgan, 2006, pp 108-120): The following propositions of Spinoza enlighten the changing character

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