Philosophy Essay Examples and Topics. Page 10

He viewed everything in light of the law of nature, which to him constituted freedom to all human beings and the right to life and own property.

Under the scientific point of view, theories are reserved for explanations of phenomena that adhere to requirements about the observations made and the means to which it's classified plus the consistency of the theory makes [...]

The ship begins a voyage around the world and in the course of this voyage some of the parts of the ship inevitably break. The entire framework of the ship that left the port has [...]

According to Nietzche, simpler situations are always true and the problem is that people tend to complicate standards by engaging the emotive qualities of existentialism instead of focusing on the simple tenets of the truth.

It is argued that the origin of philosophy as a discipline owes its origin to the contribution of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle."Socrates' contribution to the love of wisdom was manifested by the belief that philosophy [...]

According to Kreiss, through the Allergy of the cave, the allergy is presented as the sense in which we reveal our world, yet it is actually not exactly that, rather, an intellectual approach can comprehensively [...]

They argued that human beings are actors in the world and hence are aware of what is in it unlike the trees and stones that just exist.

Due to the influences of his uncle, he had a lot of acquaintances in the government that put him in a position of power and status.

In his literature titled 'the prince', Machiavelli points out some of the things that a prospective leader needs to do for them to occupy the bigger seat.

Any human being has the ability to think and as a result of this gift which is not in animals, he/she is able to reason, for example, a five-year-old girl who made her toy to [...]

This great thinker had conducted a research on the issue and stood on the idea of physical inexistence due to the fact that is clearly detailed in his Meditations, in which he sought to establish [...]

Analyzing the definitions of "whistleblowing" and "critical thinking", it is possible to make a conclusion that these concepts have similar meanings.

The fertility of women is at its peak in the late teens and the early twenties, therefore in terms of reproduction; it is reasonable to suppose that Mary Evans is in her prime and will [...]

I believe that the nature versus nurture argument is very complex and tries to define which of the two is more dominant in people.

We also want to explore the government's position on justice and know- who, and the role of the government in ensuring justice for all citizens.

The man, now in a state of dilemma, does not know whether to blow the whistle and lose his job or just maintain a blind eye to his manager's unethical acts.

The discussion begins by Meno asking Socrates whether there is a definition of the word 'Arete' because he thinks that it cannot be taught in class because there is apparently no definition of the word.

When upbringing Nero, Seneca from the point of view of the time solves a problem which was in the centre of attention of the Roman thinkers since Cicero in the new way a problem of [...]

All in all, the mention of the term 'beach' invokes images of serenity and exquisite joy in the minds of people.

In effect, love, kin all its definitions, has the aspect of pleasure whereby the loving party senses happiness regarding the object of their love.

In this treatise, he talks about the office he occupied in a town called Delphi in his old age where he actually became one of the most reliable priests responsible for the interpretations of the [...]

The paper will argue that the Augustinian view of sin excuses man from accountability and that the best way for solving such a problem is through adoption of Kant's categorical imperative.

It is possible to sum up that what interested the philosopher most of all were two things: the first one was finding the core of different matters, and the second thing was to learn the [...]

Despite this view of the writer he receives opposition from the Mencious view of the human nature who argues that if at all a man saw a child at the verge of falling over a [...]

How do we see our world because much of our knowledge does not come as results of our senses but through perception of things that around us in this physical world and."The experience in this [...]

Basing on this statement, therefore, empirialists have to carry out a rigorous test to determine the relationship between the decisions that individuals make, and the prior knowledge affecting the decisions making.

This is where he manages to convince himself that the only reasonable explanation for "the perfect idea of perfection" is God: By the name of God I understand a substance that is infinite, independent, all-knowing, [...]

The application of double standards in describing the conscious termination of human life on the one hand and animal life on the other bares the subjectivity of man's rationalization to justify crimes against animality.

The "repressive hypothesis" as referred to by Foucault is what we have been studying in the history of sexuality for the last two centuries.

The first type of faith is expressed in the continuity of the nation which one is born in and he is a member.

Faith, according to the readings of Clifford and James is a strong belief inscribed in the mind of an individual that that what they think is right.

In the genealogy of morality, I find Nietzsche's account of the development of guilt an attempt to overthrow the moral norms that govern society.

It is the understanding of the general and crucial issues related to existence of human beings and other creatures, values, reasoning and the general functioning of the mind."Philosophy as a term originates from the Greek [...]

The question that enters my mind when I read the Republic is in regards to the fact that Plato considers education to be the defining act that separates those who do not know from those [...]

The philosophy developed by Nietzsche is referred to as Nietzscheanism and it politically and intellectually influenced every part of the world during the beginning of the 20th century.

The first main branch within the field of philosophy is the concept of human nature which is the pursuit to improve the interdisciplinary exploration of the social, environmental and biological factors and variations of the [...]

The example of Kabir is suitable here."It would follow that there are two kinds of religion: the genuine religion of the mystics and the secondhand religion of the rest of mankind".

David Armstrong rejected the theory developed by Dennett for a number of reasons; he supported the position of materialists, stressing that mental states are parts of the physical body.

Thesis Statement: Foucault suggests that the "deployment" of sexuality is closely connected with the deployment of integrity, which is the main principle of the social and political welfare of the state.

After the Peloponnesian war, he was convinced by his uncle to join the oligarchical rules of Athens but as an alternative, he joined his two brothers in becoming a student of Socrates.

Being one of the enlightened persons of his time, Descartes related one of his arguments to the triangle. Actually, this argument contradicts the argument of Descartes that the self is distinct from one's body and [...]

In the interview with Chris Money, the author of the book The Republic War on Science, he intends to find out the main reason for administrative penetration to the world of science.

It appears that Socrates believed in an intellectual aristocracy, where those who had more education and had proven themselves in sophistry the "Socratic method" of exchange and analysis of ideas as a path to all [...]

The ways of the modern world have deemed that virtue is to be rewarded and vice is to be punished. The standard of merit and how to apply it in a situation appears to be [...]

The question is that life is realized by people through the principle of cut and try. It is better to say here that it is a warning for those contradicting nature and physical reality of [...]

One of the most compelling arguments for skepticism about the external world concerns the existence of material objects; this argument can be considered with regards to qualitative illusion, the reality of these objects, and the [...]

Judaism is the religious beliefs and the way of life of the Jews, that started as the faith of the early Hebrews.

Two attitudes toward money involve negative perception of money as universal evil and positive perception of money as source of good life and prosperity.

Perhaps one of the first events which marked the beginning of this change was the publishing of the Kinsey Reports in 1948 and 1953.

Smith, a pioneer of political economy, would be interested in analyzing the current economic situation in the country and, perhaps, even suggest ways for the country to overcome the economic crisis.

Kierkegaard uses the example of the New Testament story of Christ's raising of Lazarus from the dead to argue that while the human body dies, the spirit lives on and thus it is not fear [...]

A hypothetical imperative is conditional with command applied to us at our will and the end of it is willed while categorical imperative is unconditional where our will is exercised in a particular manner with [...]

Aristotle considers human beings to possess the understanding of these differences and apply them in their writings as well as conversations.

Or to put it the other way around: For the moneymaking, auxiliary, and guardian classes each to do its own work in the city is the opposite.

Thesis: Sanders in his "Doing Time in the Thirteenth Chair" expresses that justice cannot be achieved by means of a mere discussion of existing evidence and questions the procedures which usually take place during the [...]

At the same time, analytic truth is viewed by Wittgenstein as an explanation of the truthfulness of the logical one. At the same time, the necessary truth is compared and affiliated with the logical one [...]

The moral life is not so much action as thoughtful action, and the moral fruit of action is not "results" but the experience of life.

Plato's dialogues bring out the nature of justice in the society. The issue of guardian of the society is a major issue in the society.

Philosophy is a broad system of thoughts about human being natural history and the natural world of the realism human beings live in.it addresses fundamental and pervasive issues and thereby guide us in the route [...]

The philosophical position of one of the greatest luminary of all times corresponds to the significance of the city. The Island of Dr.

One of the principles of justice deals in maintaining the political order in the society, Rawls advocates that every human should have equal rights to the simple liberty which is well-matched with other person's liberty.

The author discusses positive and negative features of the individuals, describes the forms of government, and introduces the idea about the necessity of the education in order to create a perfect state with perfect people, [...]

A man is the one of the most intelligent creatures on the Earth and this is why he is usually interested in a number of questions, a lot of them are philosophical, such as the [...]

Nietzsche's all-out assault on the entire Western Judeo-Christian cultural and philosophical tradition is one of the most important issues of the abandonment of the faith in progress through the submission of human reason that had [...]

In the wilderness, a person is surrounded by pure justice, by the law of nature, by the world in which one may see the consequences of one's actions and enjoy the fruits of one's labor.

The third area that is given consideration in observing the ethics of care is the importance of background information in protecting and upholding the interests of the individuals in question.

As well, the ruler will do his job in the best way if one does not abstract from one's responsibilities."Therefore, I suggest that we first consider the nature of justice and injustice as they appear [...]

In most cases, people evaluated their moral conduct concerning rules; conduct is considered to be moral if it is by rules and wrong if it is against the rule.

Metaphysics tried to explain the origin of things on something that is beyond our scope of reasoning when measured against our capacity to understand things with respect to our senses.

The truth of love is to follow the way of love like philosophical way and see the soul behind the body, everlasting beauty of virtue, and idea behind the beauty of transient love.

However, the end of history in Fukuyama's analysis of world events pointed to the end of ideological evolution and the crystallization of Western liberal democracy as the final end product in the science of governance.

He looks at the situation of race relations and the roots of the thinking that preserves this racial discomfort among various members of the American society. The style of writing is also cleverly chosen in [...]

A Coherence Theory of justification is one that supports two central ideas that distinguish it from foundationalism: There are basic beliefs that serve as the basis for other beliefs, and

The same goes for the state and its laws: the citizens are expected to obey these laws for they are meant to do good to them; when, for some reason, the contrary occurs, the citizens [...]

From their arguments, it is evident that natural law is directly related to the concept of justice and that they are the foundations to good governance.

He notes that the fundamental part of an association is the household that is comprised of three different kinds of relationships: master to slave, husband to wife, and parents to their children.

He does not satisfactorily give justification of his claim that the relationship between the truth of the idea objective and the recognized truth of the event that brings about the idea is direct.

At the beginning of the eleventh book of "Confessions" Augustine justifies his analysis of the problem of time by means of referring to the act of creation of the book itself, saying that he analyzes [...]

Platos book the Republic is now believed to be one of the most influential works in the history of Western philosophy and political science. This is one of the core ideas in the Republic.

It is possible to give the right to the ones who think that money can buy happiness. This conclusion is not accepted by psychologists who think that wealth brings the happiness only in the moment [...]

However, in the context of immigration issue facing our nation today, it can be stated that the entire statement is not correct and though the stronger, in this case the government, has every right to [...]

The plan to kill Oedipus takes a twist when his mother and the servant refuses to kill him, allowing the opportunity to live and later to fulfill the oracles.

Many topics that are discussed by the philosophers in psychology are the ones that arise because of the recognition that the philosophers have in cognitive sciences.

In general terms, human beings try to explain the occurrence of certain events in terms of the cause. Many assumptions in the scientific study are mere hypothesis for the object under test, and many of [...]

Watching on the sky people know it is blue, but they are mistaken, as they can just believe that it is blue, and so on.

The veil of ignorance presumes that the representative is logical and considers the concept of right inform of prioritizing irreconcilable alleges, application of justice to all irrespective of social status or race and should be [...]

Velleman is correct in his conviction that in this case, the patient's decision will be the outcome of a federal right to die; the situation with euthanasia is common to that of abortion with the [...]

This approach is considered with the fact of how these loved ones should, on the one hand, bear all those condemnations and disagreements with life and words about soon death along with a perpetual presence [...]

It is essentially described by the existence of pleasure and in living an aesthetic life to the maximum one has to aim at maximizing the given pleasures.

The rapid progress of humanities in that period was close-knit with economic and technological developments across the whole Europe and North America, in particular, the invention of the internal combustion engine, formation of the new [...]

Also, his philosophy conveys the importance and the beauty of the life of faith in the midst of a discouraging world.

For instance, when it comes to cognition one can say that trees are the important components that make a forest while in philosophy one will say that the soil is the vital component that makes [...]

Confucius' principal intention is to ask people to abide by the law and wants the rulers to be the persons of virtue and character.

The Bible is the infallible word of God as depicted by His inspired prophets and the story of a people. The plethora of ills plaguing the planet and the human family today is the result [...]

The church needs to encourage the member to live by the God's grace by trusting more on God than in their own abilities Bonding with your people is the second point.

In the book "On the advantage and disadvantage of history for life" Friedrich Nietzsche dwells upon the problem of the necessity of history for people, how it can change people's lives and whether it helps.

The Apology by Plato is the account of Socrates' defense in the court of law, while the Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau is the essay defending the captain who rebelled against [...]

Therefore, gender/sex communication questions will be formed such as "How does the gender influence the time spent using mobile phones?" The question will focus on the relation between the gender as an independent variable and [...]

As far as Emile Durkheim is concerned, we should that the overarching argument of his work comes down to the following: he suggests that the constant process of labor division or specialization as it is [...]

The philosophical heritage of the US from the side of African American authors is significant to evaluate on the prospects of freedom, religion, education, and social importance of Black population for the United States.

The following examples from the work by Stevenson and Haberman demonstrate the unacceptable and acceptable instances of paraphrasing and explain the reasons for their acceptability: "We have here two systems of belief that are total [...]

The past life in the Arab environment and the way of life of the people influenced the formation of Islam since the customary norms of the society in the Western Arabia was a basis for [...]

One of the first important considerations he gives to his assessment of why humans engage in art is the constant oppositions he finds in nature the male/female opposition being the strongest of these as they [...]

An individual right to liberty is similar to the right to be free, that is, to do what you want. The main issue that arises in libertarian is whether the right to liberty is a [...]

One of the founders of Greek ancient thought was Plato whose works became the handbooks of many modern philosophers and scientists.

Anne Bradstreet's role in the cultural literary movement was not more than a female poet, striving hard to achieve her identity in a male dominated Puritan society."The Prologue" is one of the attempts of Bradstreet [...]

The representation of the predestination and the role of the government in the society were covered at first, in the religious and philosophic writings, and then gradually, the political conscious started to have an independent [...]

The belief is that God is a being, who is not only the creator of everything in existence and is the central source of wisdom, love, and divine intervention in the universe.

One of these means, and the only one that Freud seems to feel provides any sense of satisfaction as to why happiness cannot be obtained, is found in the realm of religion.

The part of Leviathan entitled "Of a Christian Commonwealth" addresses such religious controversies of the 16th-17th- century United Kingdom as state and church relationships and establishment of Church of England's position towards continental Protestants and [...]

In that regard, a definition that covers all the concepts of critical thinking might be considered as follows: Critical thinking is the use of those cognitive skills or strategies that increase the probability of a [...]

More than thirty years ago, one of the most interesting philosophers of the twentieth century, Hans Jonas, discussing the problems of the experiments on human, outlined the necessity to limit the appetites of "number-hungry research [...]

It is very difficult to assess the beauty in general. The perception of beauty is the perception of our minds through our tastes.

Eventually becoming a noted lecturer and author, his most notable works include 1959's The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry Into The Wealth and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which he wrote in [...]

It is impossible to treat the world and human beings' activities and way of life on the basis of abstract notions and thoughts, as it was underlined in Hegel's philosophy.

It is the goal of the present paper to review such areas of ethical issues within the field of criminal justice as: pretexting during investigation and police misconduct, and their influence on the investigated case.

Accordingly, the essence of the aforesaid Socrates' argument in the court is the focus of the Apology written by the student of Socrates, Plato, sometime after the court decision was taken and Socrates was killed.

According to the author, the context of discovery is about the actual method and process that has allowed a new idea to come forth while the context of justification is about the manner in which [...]

The consequence of the sin implicated in Abel's murder is a judgment that is bound to follow generations Gen 25 records the second form of sibling rivalry in the Old Testament between Esau and his [...]

His lecture appeared to be areal inspiration to many watchers; the professor highlighted his principles of life and attitude to death.