Philosophy Essay Examples and Topics. Page 11

The evolution of morality is closely connected to the issues of human evolution and human moral development7 that are discussed by Darwin and his followers.

According to Bryant, the term "lila" is essential for understanding the theological aspect of the Krishna text. Bryant additionally explains the term as the definition of the God in play.

The philosopher believes that the Narrative criterion with self-consciousness, memory, and "a recognition of the importance of being intelligible to myself" is the part, which makes a person who he is.

The issues addressed by this project are related to the nature, structure, degree of integrity, dependence on cultural conditions, values, as well as opportunities and ways of developing the character in the most successful way.

Utilitarianism emerged as a systematic theory at the end of the eighteenth century with the philosophical works of Jeremy Bentham, who created the "greatest happiness of the greatest number" formulation of the principle of utilitarianism.

And it is not the way of "the sceptics, who doubt only for the sake of doubting". And a redundancy of information also is a huge power, which confuses people to get the pure Knowledge.

This is manifested in their teachings where Aristotle speaks of virtue as finding a balance between two extremes while Socrates says that virtue is the desire for one to do well in one's life.

In my evaluation of the quote "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance," I would say that it expresses very profound and useful things to be aware of.

Idealism seems not to be as persuasive as realism for it is not substantial enough to say that everything in this world is operated by the minds of people, whereas saying that the world exists [...]

Mental illness is considered to be a genuine medical phenomenon and its causes are explained from the medical point of view.

My main arguments are connected with the Source of the Bible's message; I mean the One standing behind this message; to the opinions by famous historians including Josephus Flavius; and the fact that the apostles [...]

One is happy to see healthy grandkids playing in the green backyard of the beautiful house because the life goals are met and this brings happiness because there have been so many questions and uncertainties [...]

The goal of this essay is to seek enlightenment that Life is a sea of misery, and sorrow gives sense to life. There is a grand addition to the meaning of life.

This group of philosophers feels that whatever state one is in or goes through he needs to be calm and not complain or boast about the situation.

On several occasions, it determines the magnitude of truth in a particular set of scientific results, thereby the merits or demerits of the same. This makes it the category of philosophy that studies the nature [...]

Over the past thousand years, the human species has grown to become the undeniable masters of Earth with the ability to enact the greatest amount of change in the natural environment compared to any other [...]

The security system of a computer is based on preset access information which a person must use in order to access the data.

This implies that in institutions of learning character should be improved so as not only to attain the self-importance of an individual but for the ethical good of the general public.

After the final monologue in which Socrates tells Crito that the voices in his conscience have been urging him against going against the state and the laid down laws, it becomes rather clear that he [...]

The ancient Greeks wanted to discover what it takes to be virtuous, what one has to do in order to be full of character and nobility, and what it takes to live the good life.

More, it is a book of the hidden circumstances that follow the rising of the stars due to specific circumstances rather than the innate abilities or IQ.

This was an indication that the government was the determiner of a man's right to life. He was clear that naturally man had the right to life, property, good health and knowledge.

Many expert argue that Socrates was a representative and of "prototype of the theoretical optimist who with his belief in the explicability of the nature of things.

The theory of forms of Plato portrays to us that abstract non-material forms have the highest kind of fundamental reality as compared to this material world that is known well to us by sensation.

Given the intense rivalry between the two brothers on who to donate the kidney to the ailing dad, and the chilling revelation of their mother on the paternity of the younger brother, it is convenient [...]

This means that before engaging in an action against a human or a nonhuman, it is proper to consider the interests and include them in the calculus of rightness.

The examples of the flexibility given will demonstrate the inappropriateness nature of the examples in the role of being an effective ruler.

However, the things that are of the greatest interest for modern philosophers, modern people, and their modern problems are one of the contradictions of a human's life.

Taking into consideration the fact that Plato was actually trying to create the image of the ideal state and show the means which in his understanding are the key issues to building up the society [...]

As Machiavelli points out, fear is an integral part of the policy of a prince, in case it bites not his royal majesty, but the people of the state. And since that certainly means a [...]

Locke's concept of God is referred to Deism, the key point of which is the observation of nature and not intruding into it.

One of the fundamental concerns of social and political philosophy has been the topic of what levels of restrictions if any, should be placed on the liberty of a nation's inhabitants.

There is the emphasis on the people's eccentricity which should be given chance to flow as this is of great importance to the entire society.

However, in reality, we only have the freedom to think whatever we like, and only as long as we know that this freedom is restricted to thought only.

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 [...]

The theory of recollection was an answer to Meno's paradox that states that man needs not learn anything new as what they know is enough, and what they do not know are not necessary.

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 [...]

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.

This essay gives a definition of humanities and the difference between humanities and other modes of human inquiry and expression. Sometimes the walls and doors are made of glass.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Researching ecological views of American Indians within several centuries and on the material of the numerous cultures, the scientist provides examples of their ecological incorrectness."Shepard Krech is now one of the leaders in the move [...]

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 [...]

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

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.

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".

Though there are conditions when anger is beneficial and useful, such as the feeling of anger that inspires the soldiers to fight abandoning hesitation and fear, Aristotle believes that the emotion of anger is constantly [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

The Socratic Method is also referred to as the Method of Elenchus or the Socratic Debate. It was after his friend from youth Chaerpon paid a visit to the Oracle of Delphi and deemed Socrates [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Randomness is void of predictability and is defined well in the precepts of chance and probability. However, there has to be a way out of the situation, and this leaves randomness as the only option.

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 [...]

This is exactly the intention of Berkeley here; he intends to argue that an object of perception will not be the state of the human mind but an item of the universe.

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 [...]

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.

Being a man who believed and supported all that the government of Athens stood for, he was not going to be the one to falter from his beliefs and faith in the state and its [...]

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.

According to this thesis of Huntington, the fall of communism signaled by the breakup of the former Soviet Union in 1991 ended the Cold War era in which the protagonists were the forces of democracy [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

Despite the controversies about the relationship between the rational soul and its sensitive and nutritive faculties, however, the Aristotelians were still united in their belief that the soul is the form of the body and [...]

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