The objective was to analyze the experience of human phenomena in consciousness and in psychological result of perception and reasoning. This study contributed to success of his first work, "the phenomenology of the social world".
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.
Thus, according to the principle, an individual has the right to do whatever he or she wills unless the action brings harm to others and that is the only time power should be used to [...]
His most renowned work was the book, 'The World as a Will and Representation' whose main theme is the dissatisfaction that people have in life hence will live to achieve the level of satisfaction that [...]
Crito insists that a person must listen to the opinion of the majority, and Socrates argues that it is impossible to pay attention to the opinions of all the people because it is important to [...]
Given people's imperfectness, as compared to what it is being the case with gods, the only way for them to be able to gain the metaphysical understanding of the reality emanations' true meaning is transcending [...]
In particular, he emphasized on the importance of human experiences in the comprehension of cause and effect. Hence, the theory of cause and effect highlights that the tendency to associate events is the foundation of [...]
This paper takes the modern approach in referring to the relevancy of the play by critically giving an insight on the perspectives of the theories of desire.
This should be done with restraint and caution in order not to compromise the validity of modern studies and to avoid bias, as evident in the studies of some historical philosophers in their quoting of [...]
In 1986, Szamosi delved into the subject again this time round detailing how the perceptions of space and time developed from earlier attempts of primitive life forms to understand their world to become the modern [...]
Since exuberant barking of Stella in the neighborhood disturbs many people, debarking is the appropriate measure according to the utilitarian perspective.
His theory of Seduction Ethics actually begins on what he terms as the production of facts, meanings, and representations of what people are actually made to believe that it is the reality while it is [...]
The philosophers agreed in the nature of man and in the desire to exist in a society that was ordered and dependent.
He argues that for an individual to understand about the existence of God, the concept of the artisan has to be applied at which man has to appreciate art in order to appreciate the products [...]
However, he takes the view that some humans are not guided only by laws to act and they are not able to exercise their own free will.
The second way or of coming to the conclusion that an action is moral is through the emotive response that the action imparts on people in a society.
God exists as it is the beginning of everything, as God is necessary just for the personal existence and this is the beginning of other issues which may be possibly exist or not as well [...]
For example, Plato used to refer to the notion of morality as being synonymous to the notion of justice: "True' city and the corrupted city are put forward for us as models of human nature [...]
Therefore, in his experience, Descartes believed that confusion or absolute lack of knowledge is necessary to spearhead the search for truth about objects within the context of the world.
Christians believe in the existence of a God who is considered to have willed the existence of all that there is.
To downplay the importance of sense experience, Plato and Descartes show that sense experience can never be a cause of experience since the objects captured through it are vulnerable to change.
Justice is not dependent on the majority of any particular group, but on the views held by a majority of the people, which implies that the rights of an individual are limited to what majority [...]
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.
Dualistic approach to the issue is based on the statement that human body and human mind cannot be "reducible to or explicable in terms of the other".
Relativism is considered to be the property of a particular object which can be segregated and distributed to several, distinct views.
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 [...]
Trying to answer the question 'what is the meaning of life?' has been one of the hardest tasks for humanity. One readily gets attempted to ask the question, 'is life meant to have a bitter [...]
The central claim made by Epicurus in his work is that happiness is the only pleasure in life, which is mainly connected with the avoidance of both mental and physical pain.
The awareness of facts and procedural knowledge may be proper and distinct from an opinion and maybe a virtual justification through guesswork. There is an agreement among philosophers that knowledge may be a belief considered [...]
Cartesian developed the Cartesian Dualistic Theory of Pain to explain the relationship between physical and psychological types of pain. Therefore, Descartes developed the Cartesian Theory of pain to explore pain in the context of mind [...]
The Allegory of the Cave" is a fascinating story that provokes many thoughts about the nature of reality, truth, and perception.
At the same time, it could be argued that Sartre is overstating the extent to which people can define themselves when saying that 'existence precedes essence.' While he is correct in asserting that individuals are [...]
Although their theories of justice were significant, they would not have existed without Plato's influence and the contribution that their ideas of justice have made to political philosophy.
His speech has a somber tone and tells the fabled story of the beginning of love. Aristophanes creates the notion that the earliest humans were androgynous a combination of both male and female using his [...]
He says that this knowledge of human reason can be used to explain the origin of metaphysics, its extent, and limits reflecting on his principles.
Finally, Socrates reiterates in this section of the discussion that the ideal condition is possible only if one or more philosophers were to gain control of a city.
Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" Thus, attempting to interpret experience through the [...]
He said that the fabric of the universe makes us susceptible to producing life, consciousness, and reason. The people who object to Nagel's arguments claim that the theorist makes a lot of assumptions.
He intensively examines the concept of a teleological suspension of the ethical, arguing that one is justified to commit an unethical or sinful act, but only under the instructions of God, as demonstrated in the [...]
As a result, I believe that the mentioned philosopher is trying to convey various ideas and notions that highlight the complexity of human existence.
Immanuel Kant's essay "Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" contains the thoughts of a philosopher about the distinguishing features of a person of the Enlightenment era.
The protagonist travels to the Himalayas mountains, where he meets a sage he believes has answers to the meaning of life.
The experiment that Renee and David were going to conduct is of great interest as the search for the soul has been the question that has occupied the minds of great thinkers since ancient times.
Moreover, the philosopher believed that society's progress and scientific achievements contributed to the lowering of the role of Christianity and religion was a burden for society.
Russell is right that the value of philosophy lies in its vagueness, and the importance lies in the questions, not the answers.
He gave up his riches to pursue intelligence, ultimately noting that "the fountain of wisdom is the exact metaphysics of the intellectual and angelic forms and the stream of knowledge is the most steadfast philosophy [...]
He claims that the government's power is based more on the influence that the majority possesses rather than on the desire to act legitimately and fairly, which makes it overall unreliable as a source of [...]
Plato establishes what education is worth for both the individual and the state in The Republic, emphasizing the crucial function of those who select the materials to educate the state's future guardians.
The Confucian gentleman is the one who lives by the highest moral standards and aims to help others achieve the realization of this goal.
Real justice, according to Nozick, consists in the appropriation of holdings or their original acquisition, their fair and consensual transfer and the protection of the right to their property.
In this discussion, the objective is to describe the two outstanding concepts that make up the title of the speech: Existentialism and Humanism.
The central theme that unites St. Augustine's principles of pedagogy is that of the dynamic nature of the teacher-student relationship.
Considering the world as a continuously changing whole, as a process, Thales believes that it is due to different states of the same beginning, its "condensation" and "rarefaction" relative to some intermediate state.
He further asserts that so long as the same sound being is the same self, the self has the same personal identity.
The main problem that makes the difference between nominalism and realism is the question of the existence of properties beyond objects.
Nevertheless, the fact remains undeniable that Socrates significantly influenced both his modernity and the future development of society, demonstrating his unsurpassed oratory, proposing his method of refuting statements, and making his splendid contribution to the [...]
However, his most prominent contribution is considered to be the formulation of the five arguments proving the existence of God, simply known as "the five ways".
The reason is that, similar to human beings, other organisms are deserving respect and dignity, which is where the problem arises.
This situation shows that the concept of democracy and the freedom that correlates with it refers to a flawed narrative that liberty is the same as equality.
It is from sleep that an individual wakes and it is from the waking that the individual sleeps. Plato further states that "the worse is from the better, and the more just is from the [...]
As the picaresque novel is based on Leibnitz's philosophy of optimism which suggests the idea of the perfectness of the world and everything in the world, to be more exact, Voltaire introduces ironic ideas concerning [...]
Nonetheless, the previously mentioned examples should be used to remind us that money alone is not a guarantee of happiness, satisfaction with life, and good health.
In his 1950 essay "The Origin of the Work of Art," Heidegger explores the concepts of Truth and Being and uses these terms to explain the essence of art.
This is not the only question Meno asks but in all the cases, he fails to begin by defining the basis of his questions.
The myth about Sisyphus is known as the symbol of the meaninglessness of human toil. He rolls the stone to the top of the hill and the stone then immediately backs down and Sisyphus has [...]
Principal Issues Metaphysics: Issues and types of freedom, types of determinism, nature of reality, nature of humanity As a set of theories and concepts that allows for the study of the concept of reality, as [...]
The third one is the idea that God is not that powerful and therefore he has no ability to deal with the problem of evil and suffering.
This concept brings us to one of the central doctrines of the Meditations and the lasting legacies of Descartes's work, which is the real distinction between the mind and the body.
This power can be presented as the compressive force of the university contributing to the return of all pleats of the matter to the surrounded area.
The story of Malala has shown that freedom is crucial for personal happiness and the ability to live a good life.
The arguments in the first lecture relate to the explanation of the liberal hegemony and how it leads to failure, concluding that it contradicts the country's values.
This is in addition to the quality of, the virtues, the vices within the moral assessment and the process of attaining happiness in human life.
He was one of the leaders and ideologists of the Indian movement for independence. His motherland was dependent on Great Britain, and for Gandhi, the struggle for the truth was inseparable from the struggle for [...]
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.
This task is a discussion of the thoughts and opinions about the philosophical aspect of the Copernican revolution on the basis of Phillip Frank's article titled "The philosophical meaning of the Copernican Revolution".
This due to the fact that only the aspect of ethics in the Buddhist philosophy can be significantly likened to the Confucian philosophy.
Importantly, Augustine on the free choice of the will indicated that the mind cannot be forced to be a slave to lust.
Given that Socrates knows that Euthyphro is a good lawyer, he asks him to explain to him so that he can know the whole truth about what is pious.
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.
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 [...]
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.
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.
All in all, the mention of the term 'beach' invokes images of serenity and exquisite joy in the minds of people.
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.
The first type of faith is expressed in the continuity of the nation which one is born in and he is a member.
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 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 [...]
In the closing part of the article, the researcher concludes that absent of self-defense should be compensated by the introduction of the legal conventions justifying killing in war.
Perhaps one of the first events which marked the beginning of this change was the publishing of the Kinsey Reports in 1948 and 1953.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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.
It is very difficult to assess the beauty in general. The perception of beauty is the perception of our minds through our tastes.
Plato extols the virtues of a statesman stating that it is not the power of the statesman that is important but his knowledge.
The philosophy of Plato on the components of the soul and their role towards the development of character is also accepted by Aristotle.
Although realism contributed in the understanding of the concepts and environment through provision of an ideal approach, it also left out in art the hope and love in their work.
Both Locke and Hume looked into the perspective of human self and its interaction with the environment and tried to explain the nature and balance of the existence of human as a race within the [...]
While Mill does not use the complicated jargon that is put forth by Kant, nonetheless the notion of good and actions to which we should subscribe are relative points in this complex world.
Because of the responsibilities that lawyers have once they have committed themselves to their clients, there are times that their morality is put to test."A lawyer has to be with a client loyal, knowledgeable, skillful, [...]
Another theory that Kant criticized is the view of Baumgarten wherein it states that God is the author and the legislator of all the natural obligations because HE was the one who made the world.
Boredom is a condition characterized by low levels of arousal as well as wandering attention and is normally a result of the regular performance of monotonous routines.
I used to resort to this type of reflection at the beginning of my practice in the substance misuse center. In that situation, I played the role of the supervisor and had to do my [...]
In this theory, Aristotle refers to a good life as being a happy life. Aristotle says that good life, since it is a final end, is explained in terms of human functions.
Anticipating differentiation of human rights and the rights of citizen, issued in the corresponding Declaration of the period of the French revolution of the end of XVIII century, Aristotle is interested by a question - [...]
The idea of necessity is that any necessary fact is true across all possible worlds; that is, we could not envisage it to be otherwise.
It should be noted that unlike other reactions to these changes Adorno and Benjamin's stances have critical potential as both these authors can be placed within the Left tradition of philosophical thought.
In many cultures, there is a tendency towards isolation and spiritual loneliness to distract oneself from the bustle of the outside world.
The author of this paper will outline all four of the philosopher's lines of reasoning that a person's soul is immortal while promoting the idea that it specifically the second one, concerned with one's possession [...]
This is important to reveal as it is the key point of the philosopher's view on life. This is significant for the whole book as for Frankl, personal freedom is the individual's own choice of [...]