The book, Plato: The Collected Dialogues presents a comical and philosophical analysis of the concept of falling in love. This discussion describes the root of the crisis and its remedy with observance to the dialogue [...]
Many of the fundamental initiatives, which animated the human rights movement, emerged in the after effects of the World War II and the mayhem of the Holocaust, leading to the legitimation of the Universal Declaration [...]
While referring to the ideas of the above-mentioned philosophers of science, it is reasonable to start with the discussion of anti-realists' ideas and their visions of the effectiveness of the 'no miracles' argument because in [...]
While the body is finite and has no use after death, the soul is immortal and is the only useful part of a philosopher. He declines to escape from the jail because that is against [...]
In pages 37-62, John Locke discusses the necessity of toleration in relation to different religious views accepted in the society and focuses on the idea to distinguish between the civil jurisdiction and religion.
Weiss argues that Plato used the argument by Socrates that true philosophers hate the pleasures of the body, for example, drinks, sex, and food.
On the other hand, the measurement of these methods will form part of the objective test related to the outcome of the facts.
According to Friedman, 1970 he believed that when organization engage in social responsibility, a closer analysis will reveal that it aims to improve its image in the eye of the consumers, the government, the local [...]
It is very important to know and to apply a philosophical life in our lives in order to have a divine life and the better understanding of what life really 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.
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 [...]
One of the central ideas of the book is that the Tao is the Nature, the essence of everything in the world which cannot be either experienced or seen, it just exists, that is all.
Carnap offers another distinction between the Universal and Statistical laws by stating that the former are usually logically easier since they were always the same in the past, are still the same in the present, [...]
Popper emphasis that the entire scientific enterprise is common and natural, by giving the examples of the exploits of a Copernicus or Einstein, which to him make a better reading than those of a Brahe [...]
According to Wolf, the deep self is than inner part of a human that has the ability to control the desires, values and is responsible for self reflection.
Zarathustra sought to correct and transform the last man's understanding of the three notions of the soul: the body, the power of virtue and the spirit, so that he could have the real meaning and [...]
It is based on two principles: the first one says that one cannot be sure in his/her knowledge and there is not certain human knowledge; the second principle claims that all we know can only [...]
In this regard, people would not be the means for the mandate of heaven path and not the ends. In Confucianism, you would be wrong to rebel if you are not the Son of Heaven.
It is possible for one to live in a state of tranquility or ataraxia when one limited oneself to the necessary and natural things of life.
Apart from the liberation theology, which resulted in a political uprising in the country forcing him to left the country, the other works of Freire include 'The Pedagogy of the Oppressed' and 'Education as the [...]
Therefore, with reference to his definition of the sovereign and the general will, Rousseau was of the opinion that citizens had the obligation to attend the assemblies organized in order to deliberate upon their current [...]
The teacher, to the blind children, asked me to describe for the children what a cow is and what a Cat is.
From this point, beauty can be discussed as the attribute of things and as the independent form, and deja vu is the example of the reality as illusion because the life is only the reflection [...]
At the same time, compatibilists stress that the free will exists as in the majority of cases people have a variety of options and they are often free to choose any way.
Conclusively, though Hume argues that miracles violate the law of nature, it is necessary to note that law of nature does not rule out miracles as he suggests.
This is one of the main points that one can make in response to William Clifford's essay The Ethics of Belief.
Dealing with people and trying to combat them, it is important to be aware of their abilities as the outcome of the battle also depends on whether one knows the strengths and weaknesses of an [...]
Confucius says that passing of knowledge to people is the work of government. According to Confucius, good government should take the needs of the people into consideration by doing the right things and upholding virtuous [...]
The major difference between good morality and bad morality according to Nietzsche is that good morality is connected to nobility and bad morals are linked to the common man and simplicity.
His appeal is on behalf of not just the unsuccessful and downtrodden but of the criminal and degraded classes and a condemnation of what passes for 'justice', divine and human.
Socrates advocated the idea that justice was good, and that meant that injustice was equal to evil. The point he makes here is that justice is the cure for evil, and that a man who [...]
For a person to be seen as just, he or she ought to be a good person and the crucial question here is to know what good is.
In conclusion, the question of whether man is inherently good or evil can only be answered within a specific context. People are neither evil nor good and they behave in the way they do, whether [...]
Post structuralism in teaching can be regarded as critical in the modern world since it is diversified and ideas are used in respect to the way they are expressed or brought to existence.
In some instances, as in the conception of the human beings as a make-up of the soul- body union, it is likewise clear that biological considerations are paramount.
According to him, the motive behind an action is the one that makes the action to be deemed as right or wrong.
According to him, moral virtue is the only means of ensuring that there is order in the society. His mother thus played the role of the father in bringing up Confucius and it is through [...]
The study of superheroes has been of interest to psychologists mainly due to the inspirational impacts it has on those in the neighborhood of the superhero.
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 [...]
Furthermore, due to the different laws and cultures in our world, it would be seemingly impossible to uphold such a rule According to Pojman, "the idea of rewarding the good and punishing the bad is [...]
Thomas More, expresses the utopian view, which is a description depicting a fictional island civilization; its religious, social and political way of life."Moore used the utopian society to contrast between the imaginary or unusual political [...]
In general, the Descartes' philosophy is linked to the church's connotation of the most significant part of an individual's body, which is acknowledged as existent, even after the end of physical life.
The first element on which the concepts of Locke and Rousseau are based is the state of freedom. In exchange for this safety, people would consent to forfeit some of their freedom and submit to [...]
In the academic sense, it can be described as the study of the essence of reality, knowledge, and existence. Its approaches to the issue of uncertainty and doubt about the function of the world are [...]
Plato was a Greek philosopher who established the Platonist school and founded the Academy in Athens, the first Western institution of higher learning.
The ideas articulated in the works by Thoreau and the basic principles of Transcendentalism are consistent with the social, political, cultural, and economic changes that happened in the United States in the middle of the [...]
If everything is in order with the legal side and the only question is a moral choice, I would do everything to save the child.
The main thesis of the theory of existentialism is that existence precedes essence and that one has to start from subjectivity.
He uses the formula of the law of nature and the end in itself, to support the categorical imperative principle as the only command that dictates the universality of actions.
In his works, Aristotle enunciates that the meaning of being a good citizen is relative to the institution that one is a citizen of.
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.
The proverb "a stitch in time saves nine" is strongly tied to the notion of effective time management. The larger picture of this instance is that a little management may go a long way toward [...]
In the short essay "Meaning in Life", Susan Wolf discusses subjective and objective dimensions of meaning, and how these dimensions contribute to a person's life being either meaningful or meaningless.
The knowledge itself that those assumptions exist and vary allows people to perceive their own biases and question whether or not these biases influence their judgment.
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.
The rise of racist and sexist tendencies due to the lack of affirmative action is doubtful because it is not the only element in the fight against racial and sexual prejudice. However, West is of [...]
Followers of utilitarianism thus claim that an action is morally right when it increases the happiness of the involved parties and minimizes the harm.
It should be noted that this text is a critical scholarly dissection that plays a vital role in opening the readers' minds in different ways according to the views of the world and their important [...]
Therefore, act utilitarianism is better than virtue ethics since it is clear, concise, and focuses on the majority. Virtue ethics' strengths can be utilized to enhance the act-utilitarianism theory.
For Camus, the clear answer to the questions regarding life's meaning is embracing the absurdity of the world and finding freedom in it.
Thus, the "thinking and acting self" represents the freedom of the members of the community to take action with respect to the principles of voluntarism and the authority, serving as "the source of obligation".
Thoreau discovers that his life is in a default status and decides to take the risk of preceding all his material and wealth needs.
As such, his approach suggested that reality was the world that caused sensations and the truth was the ability to acquire knowledge of the world through mental concepts as a product of empirical sensations.
Applying Augustine's idea of free will to the concept of an all-knowing God, one could think that after God deprived Adam and Eve of free will, the future choices we make are made by God [...]
The lack of pain in the body and lack of disturbances in the soul, which Epicurus calls tranquility of mind, is the ultimate happiness and solution to human frustrations.
Although the nature of knowledge and beliefs is still confusing for many people, most of them think that they know something if they have evidence that is strong enough.
William James starts his article "Pragmatism's Conception of Truth" focusing on the idea of truth and what makes it work. Rationalism and pragmatism contrast each other: while pragmatism seeks to understand how an idea applies [...]
This approach is titled particularism, and, in the current essay, I attempt to justify this principle in the context of moral dilemmas and demonstrate how this perspective expands the ethical understanding of the subject.
The sense of opposing the reality and the perceived in the Cave myth is epistemological and is tied to the replacement of reliance on sensory cognition with mental comprehension. The reality of the Cave is [...]
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 [...]
The function of religion is, in my opinion, closely related to people's need to have a major set of moral guidelines, making individuals more confident and satisfied and societies more viable.
Hochschild argues that the management of emotions in exchange for a wage leads to the "transmutation" of private life into a social one.
In epistemology, what really counts is the understanding of knowledge about a particular topic of interest. Apparently, skepticism under epistemology is concerned with clearing any doubts that may exist about the existence of knowledge.
In his severe 1964 work titled "The Artworld," Danto explores the role of art experts and theory. Second, it is the art theory that makes the Artworld possible in the first place.
According to Savery and Haugaard, the main idea that Pettit highlights in this theory is the notion that the contrary to freedom is never interference as many people claim, but it is slavery and the [...]
In this regard, it is important to separate human perceptions from reality, hence at all times endeavor to ascertain the reality of things and occurrences.
For one to attain the full status of a disciple, he has to be curious about the Word of the Lord, be convinced then get fully committed to living in the ways of the Lord.
This is not the only question Meno asks but in all the cases, he fails to begin by defining the basis of his questions.
What is right and what is wrong is not dependent on the object of interest or on the methods of justice, but in the eyes of the perceiver.
The second assumption is based on the idea that we cannot deliberately identify a moral expert because of confusion in the literature that regards to the definition of moral experts.
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.
The sun represents the realm of knowledge illustrated by Plato's Allegory of the Cave. I think that an individual has the power to shape their ideas and perspective of knowledge.
Along with Socrates and Aristotle, Plato is one of the members of the Big Three that made a significant impact on the emergence and development of philosophy.
The purpose of this paper is to analyse Nietzsche's views on political violence, to discuss his criticism of nihilism and nationalism, as well as to consider his ideas in the context of modern politics.
Therefore, they base their hopes on the belief that all will be well with them, and they will wake up to continue with their daily activities.
Overall, the evaluation of the two visions of the problem of the external world, the one by Descartes, and the one by Moore, suggests a conclusion that Moore's concept does not provide satisfactory replies whereas [...]
The human nature of capitalism is encrusted in the philosophical thinking of the west. Therefore, western philosophy considers the existence of God and capitalism as the main influences on human nature.
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 [...]
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 [...]
This due to the fact that only the aspect of ethics in the Buddhist philosophy can be significantly likened to the Confucian philosophy.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
In the work The Scientific Life, Shapin writes: "The scientist was properly to be understood not on the model of the philosopher but on the model of the engineer and technician".
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
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.
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
In reading about all the various theories of physicalism, also often called materialism, it presents a confusing array of philosophical stances, which all have one thing in common: the separation of the physical from the [...]
The history of logic relates to the progress of the science of valid inference. The logic of Aristotle was of importance during the period of the Renaissance too.
This plainly makes it a duty to love ourselves and regard our own happiness by the value of the scale. It is our desire only that induces within us the spirit to help others therefore [...]
In other words, the ideal ruler is able to bring peace to the whole world. Confucius evaluated the justice of warfare applying more general ideals related to good government and leader."Even in the nonideal world [...]
Dating back to a time that is almost difficult to imagine, the Tao-te-ching brings into the spotlight, the need for a seamless coexistence between spiritual progress on the one hand and the development of technological [...]
Political philosophers have many theories in response to this and it is necessary to analyze some of the main arguments and concepts to get a clearer idea of how to be more precise about the [...]
Fukuyama suggests that 'it was in the highly complex and dynamic "post-industrial" economic world that Marxism-Leninism as an economic system met it's Waterloo', and he observes that 'by the end of the 1980s China, the [...]
The study of the books of the Bible requires the ability of the scholar to understand the meaning of the words.
In The Apology, Socrates stands before a jury of his peers accused of "committing an injustice, in that he inquires into things below the earth and in the sky, and makes the weaker argument the [...]
Following Descartes, the essence of the mind is thought, the essence of the body is the extension. The boundary between the mind and the body is grounded in the distinction between the intelligent and the [...]
Hume's critique of theology is driven by and expressed as a suspicion that natural theology is for the most part an unconscious effort to rationalize and legitimate a preexisting and culturally acquired religious view of [...]
In that period, the epistles of Paul to the Ephesians and the Corinthians and his preaching to the Athenians were all aimed at a Greek audience.
Another time, when I was camping with my family, the fox crept up so close to the tent that my brother and I accidentally scared it away, and the fox ran down the garden and [...]
Both virtue and vice build one's character and therefore can contribute to the view of happiness. Therefore, character education leads to happiness that is equal to the amount of wisdom and virtue.