http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/naturalism Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:38:59 -0400 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:38:59 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1744/learning-to-love-the-absolute-other-in-the-poetry-of-seamus-heaney-and-michael-longley By Madeleine A. Gallo - Innocent lamb, savage tiger, free-flying eagle – time after time animals interrupt poetry as the ideal, the muse, the hero, or the grotesque operating alongside humanity. In tracking animal imagery throughout contemporary Irish poetry, we may run the risk of imposing a perhaps unfair anthropocentric epistemology onto these poets. Although at times poets like Seamus Heaney or Michael Longley endeavor to convert animals into something more humanlike, or something that exists merely at the mercy of mankind, what lies beneath this original uneasiness is anguish over the fact that they as men... Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:11 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1744/learning-to-love-the-absolute-other-in-the-poetry-of-seamus-heaney-and-michael-longley http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1569/the-telos-of-history-as-understood-by-hegel By Rocco A. Astore - Is there a goal or purpose to history? And if so, how is one to determine its starting point, the ways in which it develops, and how it achieves its aim? Luckily, one philosopher, Hegel, analyzed history philosophically and tried to answer these very same questions. The purpose of this piece is to first investigate Hegel’s understanding of history, its inceptions, its progression, and its goal. Next, by demonstrating how history’s goal is already a conceptual reality, despite the phenomena of its advancement, I will argue that Hegel believes that the telos or finality inherent to the... Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:15 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1569/the-telos-of-history-as-understood-by-hegel