Shakespeare the Renaissance Humanist: Moral Philosophy and His Plays

Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance

his skills as an artist: Hunter had need of facile draughtsmen to produce representations of specimens in his collections. In return for Clift's services, Hunter was to bring the young man up as a surgeon. Although Clift lived in the extensive establishment in Leicester Square and regularly acted as Hunter's amanuensis, there is tantalizing little about his master in these letters. In a rare re...

Medical crises and moral renaissance.

Kant’s Philosophy of Religion and the Challenges of Moral Commitment

Kant believes that the concepts of a just and compassionate God and the life beyond death spring from our rational need to unite happiness with virtue. But since Kant had banished happiness from any place in moral reasoning, his philosophy of religion have been deemed as not merely discontinuous with his ethics but radically opposed to it. This article tries to argue against this apparent incon...

Electrifying Shakespeare: Modern Day Technology in a Renaissance Museum

Here's how it would work. You would be asked, in a computerized exhibit, to choose your favorite actor or a character in a specific Shakespearean scene. Then, a filmed image of the character or actor you chose would appear on a large wall screen and begin addressing his or her lines directly to you. When your turn to speak comes, all you would then do is to read out the lines scrolling by at th...

Language Individuation and Marker Words: Shakespeare and His Maxwell's Demon

BACKGROUND Within the structural and grammatical bounds of a common language, all authors develop their own distinctive writing styles. Whether the relative occurrence of common words can be measured to produce accurate models of authorship is of particular interest. This work introduces a new score that helps to highlight such variations in word occurrence, and is applied to produce models of ...