Philosophical Concept Essay Examples and Topics. Page 3

Human reasoning is the ability of the human mind to utilize some part of the universal reason, and therefore is intangible and separate from the body.

The main idea of the work is that the author firmly opposes physicalism. The general argument Jackson adheres to is that physicalism blunders in terms of denying the existence of the subjective experience.

In other words, truth is attached to the eventuality of a future event that is meant to limit the interests of man and it may be argued in several ways.

In conclusion, it is possible to note that Confucian ideas had a significant impact on development of the Japanese society in the 8th century.

The evaluation is carried out from the perspective of Althusser's "On the Reproduction of Capitalism". The Marxist approach is one example of a complex political and economic ideology.

In the Symposium and in the Apology, Socrates revealed the power of questioning the status quo and to see circumstances from a different frame of reference.

The concept of transparency is important to anyone interested in the ethics of human dignity and the perpetual peace of Immanuel Kant. The practice of altruism in the markets is not the alternative to markets [...]

It has been argued that a creation-myth can rarely be differentiated from a narrative of origination; this is because a narrative of origination would present the existence of a deity in a period of infinite [...]

Nevertheless, the acquisition of knowledge is a complex process which philosophers have developed different explanations to explain the same. Infinite regress: This refers to the process of reasoning to amplify the rationed credibility of a [...]

Bealer challenges the philosophers who assume that the concepts of a priori knowledge, analyticity and the necessary truth are, in the actual sense, one and the same thing.

Plato insists that thematic aspects of poetry might have an impact negatively on society: "Such poetry is likely to corrupt the mind of those of its hearers who do not have the knowledge of a [...]

In the above example the words of scientists are believed and there is no room to argue that the words of Einstein have a possibility of being untrue as the observations or other facts on [...]

If considering the rebels in the novel and the movies the "vermin" instead of the "prey," the idea of the stories will change slightly.

Nonetheless, Confucianism is still present in Asian people's minds and in their literary works as their philosophy, affected by different intrusions, is rooted in their hearts in the form of genetic memory.

The right to success is personal and largely depends on the determination of the individual these are the views of Alain.

Socrates argues that autocratic leadership is an important structure of ensuring that the rule of law is followed and that the common good of all societal members is enhanced.

I define leadership as the ability to apply specific strategies of communication, decision making, and problem-solving to address the challenges of leading people in order to achieve certain outcomes that align with one's personal values, [...]

However, Levitin explains that induction refers to the use of past experiences, and knowledge acquired from the past to predict things that are going to happen in the future.

The choice is a content of a personality, and a personality expresses itself in a choice. In Kierkegaard's philosophy, the concept of having a self is linked to the concept of consciousness.

The guests were happy and eager to follow the debate of the people they believed were geniuses of their time. It is the same rhetoric that politicians use to win elections and arguments in the [...]

The ideologies of philosophers have influenced the world and changed the perception and attitudes of people toward various issues. The peculiarity and popularity of Aristotle's philosophy of life makes it easy for it to be [...]

Nozick was of the view that people are not in a position to differentiate between their experiences when in the experience machine and when outside.

The movie The Truman Show is that sort of film which touches the problem of a persons realization of this world and his place in it.

Excellent activities for a philosophy day event include debates and dialogues among people from different cultures and races, lectures about the connection between philosophy and culture, philosophical debates and discussions on self-reliance and individualism, and [...]

Whistleblowing is defined as "having four component parts: 1) an individual acts with the intention of making information public; 2) the information is conveyed to parties outside the organization who make it public and a [...]

This is due to the fact that there are changes in nature of work, preferences of employer for flexibility which normally work to the disadvantage of the employees and finally the changes in institutional systems [...]

An example that can be cited for this is that if John, who is a child, has always been told that babies come from heaven, this is the knowledge that he believes is true.

While Anselm and Wager are major proponents of the ontological argument, Hume and Kant are some of the opponents of the ontological argument. Ontological argument is a controversial argument that supports the existence of God.

A majority of the people believe that the presence of wickedness and misery in the world, is the first evidence to the inexistence of God. In essence, this argument proves that it is not easy [...]

If the action would receive disapproval from other people, Kantian ethics dictate that a leader should not make such a decision besides it is important to ponder on whether the course of action respects the [...]

The foremost characteristic of post-industrial living is the fact that; whereas, the exponential progress in the fields of informational technology and genetics had left very little room for monotheistic religion in the minds of most [...]

Doing this is not always a smooth sailing all the way, much of the thoughts and beliefs one has, are usually fixed or definite by the time they get to adulthood.

The paradigm of decision-making mentioned above promotes change in my personal and professional life, as it helps identify the effects of a certain step that will be made in the foreseeable future.

Perception is the central issue in understanding the theory of direct realism, therefore, it is important to keep in mind the central aspects of this notion and only then try to understand the theory of [...]

This does not mean that the views of the opponent are rubbished away since they could be used to supplement or even compliment the views of the peer believed to be accurate.

The existence of disagreements is also justified by the fact that there can be a possibility of people arguing on the basis of divided evidence but have multiple choices in place leading to mutually appreciable [...]

Constructivism is a theory that states that through reflecting people's experiences, there is the construction of the world in which they live.

In this view, this essay seeks to investigate the reality in the meaning and the notion of the word "realism" as described by Paul Berman.

The normative jurisprudence on the other hand is of the argument that laws are for the purposes of containing the society and they are prone to change depending with the time and the circumstances.

The Confucianism theory that is more focused on the quality of an individual and its place in the world, but with no reference to the above-described concepts of the One and the Whole.

Berkeley supports the view of the matrix hypothesis that human beings are in a matrix and disputes the view that the matrix hypothesis is skeptical using the idealism of reality.

While solipsism focuses on the power of the mind, solitude defines the state of the surrounding, which the mind is allowed to perceive and discern.

In the development of curriculum, there has to provision for learners to make use of their experiences and come to the knowledge of things.

This means that philosophy is practiced in real life by the believer of the philosophy. In the analysis of the prophet and the dandy, two philosophers are considered.

A recent example of the concerned controversy surrounding the use of the name as a logo is that of the North Dakota team together with the NCAA.

The main goal of this age was to encourage reforms in the society by embracing the concept of reasoning and acquisition of knowledge through science.

The simple version of the theory is that a predicate is true because of the existence of the subject. Therefore once predicate and subject are linked, the statement becomes true without any attempt to rationalize [...]

He believed in the role and nature of the state as that of the well-being of all individuals in the society.

This is one of the assumptions that can be made. This is one of the limitations that can be identified.

The emergence of the philosophy of science as a field of study proves that philosophy is still relevant and required in the modern context, despite the success of the scientific discourse.

This can be translated to mean that God is the origin of God. The answer to this question is that it was God's intention to have God exist.

It cannot be imagined how the society would be is there was no thought in the minds of the people about the existence of God who oversees the actions of deeds of people in the [...]

According to Anselm "if the existence of a being is necessary, then, 'that being is greater than one which existence is not necessary'".

In addition, it is also an indication of the facts that human beings are always nosy and ready to participate in other people's issues.

The quantity of pleasure can be measured by the magnitude of the experience of an individual with whom the pleasure is associated. The purpose for which an action is done is the sole determinant of [...]

He thinks of prison guards leading him to his death in the morning and hopes that his appeal would be accepted.

In addition, he argued that the existence of God and the plans he had for the world were not sensible, and that the world was indeed absurd He was associated with the birth of existentialism [...]

During the 17th century, Thomas Hobbes proposed the idea the idea of "state of nature" in his writings called the leviathan.

The last days of the Socrates refers to a sequence of four conversations by Plato that illustrates the demise as well as the testing of the Socrates.

The cosmological argument also tries to elaborate further on the dissimilarity drawn between the sorts of unit that the cosmos is and the kind of entity that God is.

According to Locke, the word 'yellow' is an idea which is simple hence the difference between agreement of visual presentations and abstract ideas is taken care of by the perception of appearance.

The attributes associated with the soul were linked to varied parts of the body, that is, the mind, chest and the liver.

The philosophers usually have thought that if a person knows something, that means that the person believes that the thing is true, is in fact true, and that person who presents claims that he or [...]

Aristotle observed that our finite reasoning as human beings is not sufficient to decipher the complete mystery of the universe, so we need to somehow use our intuition and senses to get a better grasp [...]

He argues that, the identity of a soul alone in an embryo of man is one and same that is the identity of it in a fully grown up man.

It is worth noting that when Husserl emphasized that phenomenology is a pure discipline, he meant that the foundation of his thought rests on the fact that phenomenology is not science of fact but rather [...]

From the three theorists, it can be concluded that the morality of telling the truth and keeping promises is not homogenous.

There are natural rights such as the right to live and freedom if one adheres to the law of the land.

However, the categorization and opposition of the states of life and death is rather questionable, and this fact reduces the strength of the argument from the opposites for supporting the idea of immortality of soul.

Just as it is contradictory to think of the greater than which nothing greater can be thought as not existing, so it is absurd to think of God as not existing.

The meaning of God from a dictionary says is "The creator and ruler of the universe". Now we have basic concept of what God is, we can now think the God exist or not.

Experiences, the level of information, the uniqueness of the situation and urgency of the matter are some of the factors that influence decision making.

The natural right to property according to Locke was affected by the application of labor to a certain piece of land.

One approach is the materialist approach which asserts that consciousness and the brain are one and the same thing, thus the brain is the process of the brain.

In Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych, Peter Ivanovich experiences a chilling moment as he contemplates his own mortality in light of the long and painful period of torture and agony that befell his colleague [...]

On the other hand, atheist holds the position that evil experienced in the world is a clear indication that either this world is not the best to live or there is no such being as [...]

The last theme is the concept of identity of being on the one hand, and thought in the teleological growth on the other.

According to Descartes, the supporter of the rationalist perspective and the author of the phrase "I think, therefore I am", declined the importance of emotional and sensuous perception of the world because it does not [...]

The Cognitive Behavior and Self theories explore human nature in terms of material and spiritual aspects of life that determine the behavior of individuals.

The teacher, to the blind children, asked me to describe for the children what a cow is and what a Cat is.

Nevertheless, in light of recent discoveries in the field of neurology and psychology, many of his analytical insights, concerned with the justification of the idea that the metaphysical mode of cognizing the surrounding reality is [...]

Secondly, the author of this paper agrees with Hegel on the issue that it is actually the role of philosophy to resolve the differences within the human consciousness through Absolutism.

In the end, the amount of goods and services that a person could get is limited. The laws and mutual help that exist in a civilized society show that people respect and value equality and [...]

This ancient philosophy concentrates on the balancing of the environment and Chi is a vital component of this study. This is the basic principle of the Feng Shui and it works even in the 21st [...]

The meaning derived when integrity is viewed in this perspective is purity and how intact a thing is. In such analysis, the integrity of a person is viewed in two perspectives.

This can be seen from the honor that a man is regarded or the rank or reputation a person holds in the society.

One of the arguments that the author makes is that "the normative force is the same for everyone and known by all".

Of course, this is regardless of the nature and kind of the society in investigation. The general knowledge is that natural law helps in the development and proper establishment of the eternal law.

Taking the Argument with a Grain of Salt: Concerning the Existing Objections To address the issue in question in the most efficient way, the existing contradictions to the teleological argument must be considered.

These arguments seek to find out the explanation of what exists in the world, and if this really testifies to the existence of a higher power, namely, God.

However, the world is full of inconsistencies and imperfections and, therefore, the existence of the best possible world refutes the idea of God's perfection.

The problem with this explanation is that Anselm already assumes that God has reached a state of perfection in the beginning of his ontological argument. Anselm's argument is also based on the premise that it [...]

The three by-words of the Enlightenment are Reason that is a belief that employs common sense or reason that the world would improve; Autonomy, which is a belief that people would realize freedom and natural [...]

The thinker argues that philosophers bring to the fore trends and outlooks existing in the human society. Some may argue that there is no point in listening to philosophers, reading their works as people will [...]

The main aim of Moore's essay is to explain that if there are some reasons not to believe that external objects exist; the author is to convince people of physical things existence before they understand [...]

Locke's argument that "whatever is innate is true" means that he holds a position similar to Descartes that if innate principles were to occur, then it would be the work of God, a position which [...]

At the same time, according to Socrates, the process of people growing ever more knowledgeable of surrounding reality and their place in it has the value of 'thing in itself'.

Christians believe in the existence of a God who is considered to have willed the existence of all that there is.

This paper will thus discuss why Philosophy major is needed in curriculum to teach students- who will later assume important roles in the social and business sectors- on the value of ethics in the society.

Osama is the main face behind the Al Qaeda terror group and when it was announced that after years of hunting him down, Osama had finally been killed by the United States government, there could [...]

It is referred to as the mind-body problem from the difficulties that are encountered in understanding the working of the body and that of the mind.

If people presume that opportunity costs causes a decrease in the overall desirability especially the most favorite choice, then the more the increased choices, the greater the sense of loss and dissatisfaction they will derive [...]

In this religion it is believed that the Lord is the creator of nature which evolved with time and lead to the emergence of man.

Agnostics have been unable to take a stand in the issue due to their inability to make a decision and it is advisable that agnostics emulate theists and atheists.

Buddhism also teaches that it is the unfulfilled desires of men and women that causes misery and therefore the removal of these desires from the consciousness of the individual will solve all of society's problems.

In contrast to the weighed and reasonable ideas of war which Plato suggests, Augustine molds the basis of the war ideology on the idea that war can be a means to achieve piece.

This is due to the fact that different people explain the existence of God in different ways and there is always a contradiction between scientific theories and faith of individuals. However, from the explanation provided [...]

So, it would be appropriate to suggest the overview of changing virtues and people's views within the well-known cognitive books: The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, The Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Boethius, and the [...]

By examination of Tyler Durden in the "Fight club" and Clint Eastwood in "The good the bad and the ugly," it can be noted that the heroes and anti-heroes are depicted in a similar yet [...]

Tough questions arise at the very insistence of resolving the mystery about the existence of God, with scientists and philosophers pulling in all directions in an attempt to explain the core and origin of mankind.

Daniel explores the functioning of the brain in relation to the body while John addresses Artificial intelligences and the myths surrounding it.

He was of the opinion that every indication of machination and design existing in the watch also exist in the natural universe, the only difference being the fact that the indication of contrivance and design [...]

Pythagoras was one of the first philosophers, who introduced that ethereal type of music and proved the possibility of connection geometry, philosophy, and music."Impressed by the harmonious scale of sounds from the beating hammers, Pythagoras [...]

For example, Descartes notion of existence of a perfectly supreme being is questionable because, unless one proves that the reality of the Supreme Being is coherent, then the argument is void. Anselm's argument that God [...]

The representatives of American analytic philosophy believe that they can achieve the desirable goals and comprehend the essence of this life be means of analysis of language and respect to all natural science.

Relativism is considered to be the property of a particular object which can be segregated and distributed to several, distinct views.

The criterion includes a method of observation, the creation of a hypothesis, the undertaking of experiments, and the formulation of law follows.

The technology field is the most challenging and it couples a number of disagreements, which have led to positive and negative impacts.

The fire signifies the sun and the sun represents the whole truth; the light that the prisoners need to see in order to gain their freedom from the world of darkness.

The greatest spur to critical thinking among the ordinary global populace was facilitated by American philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey, who introduced the branch of knowledge to American education in the early 1900s, "So [...]