In the Smriti view, there are four " varnas " or classes: the Brahmins, the Kshatriyas, the Vaishyas, and the Shudras ( outcastes, chandalas ).

In Krutch's view, this is one way to show how literature may be moral in effect without employing the explicit methods of a moralist.

It is an understandable paradox that most American history and most American literature is today written from an essentially egocentric and isolationistic point of view at the very time America is spreading her dominion over palm and pine.

August Wilhelm's Vienna lectures on dramatic art and literature went through four editions between 1809 and 1846 and, in them, he opined that Euripides " not only destroyed the external order of tragedy but missed its entire meaning ," a view that came to influence Friedrich Nietzsche, who however seems not to have known the Euripidean plays at all well.

Instances in Egyptian literature where " god " is mentioned without reference to any specific deity would seem to give this view added weight.

In the interpretation of the currently dominant view of classical economic theory developed by neoclassical economists, the term " factors " did not exist until after the classical period and is not to be found in any of the literature of that time.

Eighteen years prior to the publication of Gone with the Wind, an article titled, " The Old Black Mammy ," written in the Confederate Veteran in 1918, discussed the romanticized view of the mammy character that had been passed on in literature of the South:

He resembles Aristophanes in his rejection of the idealised hero of epic literature in favour of an idealised view of the farmer.

Since medical literature began to describe homosexuality, it has often been approached from a view that sought to find an inherent psychopathology as the root cause, influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud.

Some commentators view genres as natural forms of literature.

Some Marxist historians prefer to describe the Renaissance in material terms, holding the view that the changes in art, literature, and philosophy were part of a general economic trend from feudalism towards capitalism, resulting in a bourgeois class with leisure time to devote to the arts.

At this time poets such as Ferdowsi ( who glorified the pre-Islamic Iran and patriotism ), Hafiz ( with his Epicurean view on life ) and Khayyam ( with openly agnostic themed poetry ) had already found their roots among Iranian culture and their works were looked upon as masterpieces of Persian literature.

Almost all rabbinic literature published since the Middle Ages discusses Rashi, either using his view as supporting evidence or debating against it.

In Jewish literature, the leaders of the people, kings and princes were called " sons of God " based on the view of the king as the lieutenant of God.

Paine advocates reason in the place of revelation, leading him to reject miracles and to view the Bible as an ordinary piece of literature rather than as a divinely inspired text.

In Georgian literature, Tamar was also romanticized, but very differently from the Russian and Western European view.

Leo's lively interest in art and literature, to say nothing of his natural liberality, his alleged nepotism, his political ambitions and necessities, and his immoderate personal luxury, exhausted within two years the hard savings of Julius II, and precipitated a financial crisis from which he never emerged and which was a direct cause of most of what, from a papal point of view, were calamities of his pontificate.

The Skeptic's Dictionary is, according to its foreword, intended to be a small counterbalance to the voluminous occult and paranormal literature ; not to present a balanced view of occult subjects.

" She cites the goals of feminist criticism as: ( 1 ) To develop and uncover a female tradition of writing, ( 2 ) to interpret symbolism of women's writing so that it will not be lost or ignored by the male point of view, ( 3 ) to rediscover old texts, ( 4 ) to analyze women writers and their writings from a female perspective, ( 5 ) to resist sexism in literature, and ( 6 ) to increase awareness of the sexual politics of language and style.

The rabbis taught a " quite literally ... down-to-earth " view of the eternalness of God: That " God is eternal but it is not given to man to explore the full meaning of this idea ," and so " one cannot, therefore, expect to find in the rabbinic literature anything like a detailed examination of what is meant by divine eternity.

The history of the Fatimids, from this point of view, is in fact the history of knowledge, literature and philosophy.

After a short period the Profil group went separate routes, as authors such as Dag Solstad, Espen Haavardsholm, and Tor Obrestad turned to the newly formed party Workers ' Communist Party ( Arbeidernes kommunistparti or AKP ), and become involved in formulating a new political program that based on the view that literature should serve the working people and their uprising against capitalism.

Griselda Pollock and other femininsts have articulated Myth and Poetry and literature, from the point of view of gender.

At least one researcher in the 1900s ( Albert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing, who was a self-professed sadist ) thought that algolagnia was a psychological disorder, however this view began to change once the Kinsey Reports noted that many seemingly " normal " people often enjoy pain in a sexual context, and later Norman Breslow found that, before 1977, only four previous studies in all the scientific literature were empirical in nature.

Despite these hints of uneven distribution, classical rabbinical literature expresses the view that manna fell in very large quantities each day.

Buechner's combination of literary style with approachable, universally applicable subject matter has, to many of his fans, revolutionized contemporary Christian literature: " In my view, Buechner is doing a distinctively new thing on the literary scene, writing novels that are theologically exciting without becoming propaganda, and doing theology with artistic style and imagination.

John Miles Foley held, specifically with reference to the Beowulf debate, that while comparative work was both necessary and valid, it must be conducted with a view to the particularities of a given tradition ; Foley argued with a view to developments of oral traditional theory that do not assume, or depend upon, finally unverifiable assumptions about composition, and that discard the oral / literate dichotomy focused on composition in favor of a more fluid continuum of traditionality and textuality.

In contrast, most Christian denominations actively seek converts, following the Great Commission, and conversion to Christianity is generally a declaration of faith ( although some denominations view it specifically as adoption into a community of Christ, and orthodox Christian tradition views it as being a literal joining together of the members of Christ's body ).

This term is specifically rejected by Lutheran churches and theologians since it creates confusion about the actual doctrine and subjects the doctrine to the control of a non-biblical philosophical concept in the same manner as, in their view, does the term " transubstantiation ".< ref > J. T.

According to this view, " after observing a long run of red on the roulette wheel, for example, most people erroneously believe that black will result in a more representative sequence than the occurrence of an additional red ", so people expect that a short run of random outcomes should share properties of a longer run, specifically in that deviations from average should balance out.

In contemporary analytic philosophy, the issue of subject — and more specifically the " point of view " of the subject, or " subjectivity " -- has received attention as one of the major intractable problems in philosophy of mind ( a related issue being the mind-body problem ).

During a period ( the 1970s and 80s ) when nativist Transformational Generative Grammar was becoming dominant in Linguistics, and called " Standard Theory ", linguists who questioned these tenets were disenfranchised and Cognitive Linguistics and Computational Psycholinguistics were born and the more general term Emergentism developed for the anti-nativist view that language is emergent from more fundamental cognitive processes that are not specifically linguistic in nature.

The government, most of the Slovenian polity, shares a common view of the desirability of a close association with the West, specifically of membership in both the European Union and NATO.

An alternative anti-revolutionist view is that science as exemplified by Newton's Principia was anti-mechanist and highly Aristotelian, being specifically directed at the refutation of anti-Aristotelian Cartesian mechanism, as evidenced in the Principia quotations below, and not more empirical than it already was at the beginning of the century or earlier in the works of scientists such as Benedetti, Galileo Galilei, or Johannes Kepler.

This view of the scientific revolution reduces it to a period of relearning classical ideas that is very much an extension of the renaissance, specifically relearning ideas that originated with somebody other than Aristotle and particularly those rooted in the schools of Plato and Pythagoras.

Criticism has been levelled at Corbusier's five points of architecture from a general point of view and these apply specifically to the Villa Savoye in terms of:

Claims are often made regarding the theological significance of the arabesque, and its origin in a specifically Islamic view of the world ; however these are without support from written historical sources as, like most medieval cultures, the Islamic world has not left us documentation of their intentions in using the decorative motifs they did.

From a petrological point of view, " flint " refers specifically to the form of chert which occurs in chalk or marly limestone.

Most of these sophists are known today primarily through the writings of their opponents ( specifically Plato and Aristotle ), which makes it difficult to assemble an unbiased view of their practices and beliefs.

The stories are about the baby boomer generation, specifically King's view that this generation ( to which he belongs ) failed to live up to its promise and ideals.

A view advocated by He Xin is that the early dragon depicted a species of crocodile, specifically, Crocodylus porosus, the saltwater crocodile, which is the largest living reptile, and once ranged into China during ancient times.

The Gaullist government, however, was criticized for its heavy-handedness: while elections were free, the state had a monopoly on radio and TV broadcasting and sought to have its point of view on events imposed ( this monopoly was not absolute, however, since there were radio stations transmitting from nearby countries specifically for the benefit of the French ).

In this view, a resistance movement is specifically limited to changing the nature of current power, not to overthrow it ; and the correct military term for removing or overthrowing a government is an insurgency.

The Germans — who had been expecting resupply efforts — had moved five flak batteries into the area specifically to attack these flights and as the RAF came into view they succeeded in shooting down 10 aircraft.

The pro view still holds that the human ability to use language ( specifically the ability to use recursion ) is qualitatively different from any sort of animal ability.

By the mid-1960s, this atavistic, psychopathic view of Mau Mau was being challenged by memoirs of former members and leaders that portrayed Mau Mau as an essential, if radical, component of African nationalism in Kenya, and by academic studies that analysed the movement as a modern and nationalist response to the unfairness and oppression of colonial domination ( though such studies downplayed the specifically Kikuyu nature of the movement ).

On Aronson's view, however, the lawyer may feel dissonance specifically because falsely calling the defendant " innocent " conflicts with the lawyer's own self-concept of being an honest person. In many experimental situations, Bem's theory and Festinger's dissonance theory make identical predictions, but only dissonance theory predicts the presence of unpleasant tension or arousal.

Among the arguments against its construction, opponents argued that it wasn't a genuine Wright building, that the costs were too steep for the tax payers to bear and that the construction would adversely affect the environment, specifically destroying the view of Lake Monona from street level on the south side of the Capitol Square.

Whereas these dedicated birders may often travel specifically in search of birds, birdwatchers have been described by some enthusiasts as having a more limited scope, perhaps not venturing far from their own yards or local parks to view birds.

A common view within the PC community is that the company failed because it specialized in computers designed specifically for word processing and did not foresee ( and was unable to compete against ) general-purpose personal computers with word processing software in the 1980s.