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Philosophy Essays and Term Papers
God's Omniscience vs. Free WillFaith and skepticism have always been conflicting ideas that constantly have bombarded humanity. In Book 5 of the Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius addresses the tension between the ideas of predestination and free will. The purpose of this essay is to present the arguments of this prolonged ...
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DescartesDescartes main purpose in the Meditations is to question comprehension. To discover such issues as the existence of God and the division of mind and body, it was important for him to distinguish what we can know as truth. This brings up the letter from Bellarmine that went against Descartes’ ...
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PlatoPlato was one of the most influential philosophers. He was an Athenian aristocrat that was greatly inspired by the theories of Socrates. During his life in Athens, Plato observed the flaws and immorality of democracy. He believed that there were very few who were suitable to rule a state. A myriad ...
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When The Student Surpasses The TeacherWhen The Student Surpasses The Teacher
According to Bryan Magee’s The Story of Philosophy, the great philosopher Plato makes the statement, “Let no one here enter here who is ignorant of mathematics.” Plato was an avid student to the father of modern philosophy Socrates. Plato’s words noted ...
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There is a GodIn reading Sextus Empiricus’ Selections from the Major Writings on Skepticism, Man and God, I found myself questioning whether Sextus was wondering who he was, why he was here and was there a purpose to his life? Even though Sextus did not ask these questions directly of himself, he hints towards ...
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Henry James, Principled RealismHenry James, Principled Realism
I read a critical essay by Michael Kearns entitled, "Henry James, Principled Realism, and the Practice of Critical Reading." In it, Kearns invents the terms "principled reality" and "naïve reality" and how to apply these perspectives when reading Washington ...
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Anselm's Ontological ArgumentAnselm of Canterbury was the first philosopher to create an argument for God’s existence based solely on logic and reason. He states that, because we can all conceive of that than which nothing greater can be thought, it must exist in our understanding, and if it exists in our understanding, it ...
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Understanding YourselfUnderstanding Yourself
“One obvious fact about the moral sphere of human life is that different people have different beliefs about what is right and wrong.” (Bro. John Totten, 54.) I am very open to other’s opinions and accept disagreements but also have some strong values which cannot be ...
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Dao De Jing Chapter 1Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching) Chapter 1
The meaning of the Dao De Jing is, a person must go with the flow of life to be an adherent of it’s philosophy. The Daoists thought of water as a close analogy for the Dao. Water has tremendous power to support objects and carry them along and one must ...
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Aristóteles Teoría del ArteAristóteles Teoría del Arte
De todos los filósofos de la antigüedad, Aristóteles fue uno de los más célebres, y en cada centro de estudios, su nombre, incluso en el día de hoy, se lleva a cabo en gran estima, pero sólo se va a centrarse en la idea de Aristóteles de lo que es el arte. “El arte ...
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Immortality and DeathImmortality and Death
For many people, death is not something to be taken lightly. People go their entire lives wondering and worrying about what comes after they die; some even longing to avoid death and live forever. Many philosophers and writers in history had strong beliefs on death and the ...
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EpistemologyEpistemology is one of the three branches that make up philosophy that covers the concept of knowledge. What is knowledge? Knowledge consists of the force that powers our brains to intake, process and output pieces of information we experience and produce from reasoning. Information is found in ...
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Freewill vs. DeterminismThe debate between determinism and freewill is something that has been quarreled over for years and will continue to be for years to come. To understand this, one must first understand what differs the two terms from each other. If one checks in the dictionary for the definition of freewill, he ...
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Compare and Contrast John Locke and Thomas HobbesJohn Locke and Thomas Hobbes were two main political philosophers during the seventeenth century. Hobbes is largely known for his writing of the “Leviathan”, and Locke for authoring "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding." Included in their essays, both men discuss the purpose and structure of ...
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Gattaca and GiftednessMichael J. Sandel’s concept of “giftedness” is an acceptance that we as a species have certain limitations when it comes to our aspirations and limits, and that some of us are better at certain things than others. Sandel’s concept also makes the point that since giftedness is an understanding of ...
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Pensamiento critico y creativoQué es el pensamiento crítico?
Es necesario saber que pensamiento crítico es un tipo especial de pensamiento, con una estructura y función particular que lo caracteriza y lo diferencia de otras capacidades superiores como el pensamiento creativo, resolución de problemas, toma de decisiones; etc. ...
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What Is Love?What is the one emotion that has everyone mystified? What is the one emotion that has started as many wars as it has ended? What emotion has had more plays, songs, and stories written about it than anything else? Love, that one emotion that makes enemies into friends and friends into enemies. So ...
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Reality In Philosophy3.2 REALITY: MATERIAL OR NONMATERIAL?
MATERIALISM
Matter is the ultimate constituent of reality
Democritus: matter in motion, Hobbes: measurable matter.
OBJECTIONS TO MATERIALISM
Consciousness? Conscience? (Beyond thinking, feeling, dreaming etc.)
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What does a person in pursuit of happiness need in order to achieve it?What does a person in pursuit of happiness need in order to achieve it?
Every person in the world has an idea, at some point in his/her life, of how to reach his/her state of ultimate happiness. Among all of these people, many choose not to try to achieve this feeling of elation because they ...
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EuthyphroIn Plato’s Euthyphro, the central dilemma (concerning the nature of goodness) that is presented to the reader is something good just because the gods proclaim that it is good? Or do the gods deem that something is good because of some other certain quality that it has? And if so, what is that ...
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Philosophy of Boy Who Cried WolfEveryones heard the tale of the Boy who cried Wolf right? Sure, shepherd boy thinks he's funny, makes a fuss about imaginary wolfs, villagers come running - no wolf. Then when wolfs actually do come, he yells and screams, yet villagers weren't about to play his game again, his sheep get nailed by ...
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Un HistoriadorUn historiador es aquel que analiza las pruebas científicas y las interpreta de una manera, para generar hallazgos del pasado y de las civilizaciones antiguas, en donde se genera el enigma de donde provenimos nosotros y como es que fuimos evolucionando.
Lo más importante de este enigma acerca ...
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SiddharthaIn Herman Hesse's Siddhartha, Unity is a reflecting theme of this novel and in life. Unity is "the state of being one or a unit; harmony, agreement in feelings or ideas or aims, etc." Unity is first introduced by means of the river and by the mystical word "Om." Direct commentary from Siddhartha ...
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