Philosophical Theories Essay Examples and Topics. Page 4

In a nutshell, The Sense of Antirationalsm is an exemplary work of literature that gives the study of comparative religious studies a new approach.

The readings that will be discussed in this paper illustrate the diversity of this movement and their importance for different cultures.

According to Burrington, Socrates was to attend a court hearing in which Meletus accuses him of distracting the attention of young people from believing in the gods that the state religion recognizes.

The concept ideas of the state of nature, law of nature, civil state and common good were discussed by Lock in his works.

The 'Allegory of the cave' and 'You, Screws' are two metaphors that different authors have used to show some similarity in the way people think and limit themselves to view the world and reality as [...]

This paper contains a description of the proceedings of the trial, explanations of Socrates' unofficial accusations, the official charges against him by Meletus and his corresponding responses, and a discussion of the verdict of his [...]

The use of "of course" indicates that this is an absolute truth when in reality it is the writer's opinion. A monarch is obligated to facilitate the rest of the monarchy's knowledge process.

The heavenly love is the best form of love and involves honoring one's partner intelligence and wisdom. This aspect of the soul according to Plato is most dominant in the artisans, the workers and slaves.

Epicureanism constitutes an interdependent system that harbours the following views: the main purpose of human life as being the achievement of happiness as a result of absence of physical "pain and mental disturbance"; empirical approach [...]

In Kant's own words, "Autonomy of the will is the property that the will has of being a law to itself.[Morality] is the relation of actions to the autonomy of the will [...].

It is therefore important to point out the circumstances that led to the creation of the U.S.political system that incorporated the principles of utilitarianism and libertarianism.

Nor that there is, on the one hand, the field of things, of perfected technique, work, and the transformation of the real; on the other that of signs, communication, reciprocity, and the production of meaning; [...]

The validity of this statement can be well illustrated in regards to the main conventions of the theory of a 'chemical morphogenesis' by Alan Turing, which points out to the fact that the bulks of [...]

My reply to the objection above is that the results may be determined by reason. The outcome is highly, if not, parallel to reason.

The parable of the cave by Plato was an attempt to highlight the importance of education to the achievement of wisdom.

The ability to focus on the incurrence of events that may lead to negativity is alienated in utopia thus the community is not balanced in its gauging of the future.

This therefore means that it is wrong to state that it is the will of God for women to be ruled by men.

The cave conditions are, therefore, a correlation of mans education or lack of it Plato tells us that if the prisoners were unlocked and forced out of the cave, they would prefer to go back [...]

People in the Cave do not interact with the worlds outside the Cave, reflected in water, the things themselves, including the stars and the moon in the night sky and the sun.

The purpose of this paper is to show that determinism and moral responsibility co-exist and that human decisions or actions cannot contradict the pre-existing laws of nature.

Nietzsche exposes the wanting state of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries' moral rationale, highlighting the most challenging, yet simple, prescription of embracing the all unaltered natural law on the order of human existence - as [...]

He recognized that the freedom of people in modern society was limited when compared to their existence in the state of nature due to the presence of laws and property, though he observed that the [...]

This is the foundation upon which he believed the knowledge of good literature and the art of composition could be found.

Manent was able to show the link between the law of the land and the state. If one will utilize Manent's understanding of sovereignty and the law then it will be revealed that the Canadian [...]

The author of the third book, Jean Baudrillard, analyzes the practice of politics from the point of view of connection between the historical events and the society.

He had the view that individuals naturally possess knowledge and that what they need is a direction for them to come to terms with what they already knew. He seems to be of the opinion [...]

Behind the prisoners a fire is playing, so that they can see their own shadows and the shadows of one another thrown by the fire on the opposite wall of the cave in fact, shadows [...]

As the sense of independent and development sunk in peoples mind, the aspect of communism disintegrated and in its place individualism and the sense of "I" was adopted that is embraced world-wide.

Marx and Rousseau were eager to improve the society they lived in and make people free; to achieve these purposes, it is necessary to prove that money does not have such power to provide all [...]

He says that laws of justice should not be used to suppress and oppress guilty individuals especially on the Socrates like him.

Freedom is granted to a prisoner, and he is allowed to look at the things that cast the shadow shown to him.

As much as he is regarded as an atheist who celebrates in the death of god, he calls it the greatest manifestation in a hundred acts reserved for the next two centuries in Europe, that [...]

The paper pays special attention to the main views and values of each author as to what constitutes legitimate governments, the power of such governments and the limitations of the power and authority of legitimate [...]

It foresees a society whereby gender neutrality will be tenable and that social responsibilities are not subject to the gender of an individual.

There is a tendency of us trying to play wise that we can not be cheated and in the process disqualifying everything and negating the existence of everything else as well.

The use of puppeteers by Plato inside the cave and things outside indicate that empirical discoveries never penetrate the ideal realm of truth thus calling for the need to move outside the cave.[2] The third [...]

The doctrine of stoicism is also prevalent in the book, a philosophy that he was deeply fascinated in and applied in his solving daily challenges in life.

Chaos theory explains the rationale of chaotic events in the world. Chaos theory explains the rationale of chaotic events in the world.

The movement of the prisoner from initial position of imprisonment to exploring the interior of the cave and then to studying reflections from water to stars and sky during the night followed by discovery of [...]

The description of the cave as well as that of the situation of the prisoners shows that they are mistaken on the idea of truth and reality.

According to Pizzitola: Law was enacted to safeguard members of society from aggression; to institute the rules that would ensured community was united; to develop the community upon conditions raised by community members; to make [...]

The main aim of the paper is to compare and contrast the principles set forth by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke with regards to the fundamental purpose of political society and the state of nature.

Occasionally, the carriers of the objects speak to one another, but their voices reach the prisoners in form of echoes from the wall ahead of them.

Thus, how is knowledge of ignorance, in Descartes' meditation and Socrates' the allegory of cave, fruitful in understanding the existence and real meaning of life?

The prisoners are only able to see the shadow of the puppets on the wall of the cave-their only way of being acquainted to the outside world.

Moreover, King justified his pursuit of justice on the streets from the fact that the protests he organized were essentially peaceful and nonviolent; meaning that all he was trying to do was get his message [...]

In the context of marriage as a social institution, the performative statement said to fulfill the action is "I do", which fulfills the action of marrying.

In this essay, we are going to discuss and explain the deism of the period of Enlightenment and show the relations between ides of deism and Enlightenment philosophy through the analysis of teaching such great [...]

It is clear through the literature that has come to man, that philosophers started being increasingly concerned with the task of justifying the possibility, and therefore, the credibility of human knowledge of the entire world.

Kant's moral philosophy holds that the final result of an action has no value; the value of an action lies on the motivation behind it.

He says that the idea of the bed from which all beds are made generates from god, the carpenter who makes the bed 'naturalizes' what god had conceived, and the painter copies the idea of [...]

They based their perception of what is good on what they received and deemed good while the masses were obliged to accept that as common and if common then as the norm of the values.

The highest type of reality is the one that is based on knowledge of forms as illustrated through the allegory of the cave.

Nietzsche, being one of the believers in the rule of the body over the body over the mind believed that ideas contained inhibited the body's actions.

My personal life therefore bears witness to this as can be illustrated by the various ornaments that I adorn and the painting and sculptures that I have in my house.

The first clause calls for distribution economic and social disparities in a way that, "they are to be of the greatest benefit to the least-advantaged members of society".

Generally, one is to keep in mind that Foucault 's discourse "tells us something about the person speaking the language, the culture that that person is part of, the network of social institutions that the [...]

The reason of why Kant's ideas are preferable to me is that the categorical imperative allows to define what actions are obligatory and which ones should be forbidden and to choose the way that is [...]

Euthyphro is in the verge of prosecuting his father because of the crime he committed. Another definition of piety by Euthyphro is that" The pious is what is dear to gods.

In its turn, this implies a possibility for one's 'soul' to be unconsciously aware of the true significance of the surrounding reality's emanations, "As the soul is immortal as it has been reborn, time and [...]

The concept revolves around dietetics that is philosophical and 'cultivational' of the Chinese thoughts on religion and other spheres of life.

It therefore leads to a general conclusion that the fear of error should not lead individual to believe in non-evidenced approaches especially in social and natural sciences.

In summary, the main idea is that because human beings are part of the universe, their actions originate from events that happened before, which were caused by earlier events, and the list is endless.

One day, one of the prisoners was set free from the chains and made to turn and see the fire, as well as the puppets, which he compared with the shadows he had been seeing [...]

The Tao Te Ching likens nature to a bow in chapter 77."That which is at the top is pulled down/that which is at the bottom is brought up/ That which is overfull is reduced/ that [...]

The philosophy of Latin America was formed under the influence of European philosophy that had a great impact on the development of the New World.