50 Philosophi Essays, Term Papers and Book Reports
Discuss current and counter current prevalent in philosophical thoughts during Pre-Socratic period.
The Pre-Socratics were the first philosophers, in a line of others who followed, who rejected the idea of mythology. They refused to believe that those stories which their societies embraced, explained the nature of all things and the Arche of all. Thus each philosopher used his rational thoug....
Alice's Psyche - Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Alices Psyche
Dreams reflect the experiences we encounter throughout our lives. These journeys make us who we are. Because dreams unfold as we sleep, we have no choice of what they either echo or reveal. These echoes and revelations often contain ....
Are Animals Conscious Creatures?
Consciousness! I have been looking and searching in books, articles, newspapers, and many more resources trying to find and understand the meaning of consciousness. In fact, I found many scientists, philosophers and others who explained consciousness from their own point of view and experience. No o....
Asian Philosophies of Critical Thinking
The research question of this extended essay came across at a very early stage in my life. Having been born and developed from a family with all its members being University instructors and professors, I was often involved in arguments related to the lack of critical thinking in Asian cultures. As I....
Ben Franklin, Puritans Comparative Essay
The puritans and Ben Franklin are alike in many ways, but there different in many ways also. Ben Franklin grew up in Boston as puritan, when he left he tried to stay loyal to it but he soon stopped he then he changed from a badly educated man to "The First American" . As for the puritan cultur....
Benjamin Franklin-Scientist and Inventor
Benjamin Franklin has influenced American technology, and indirectly, lifestyles by using his proficiencies and intelligence to conduct numerous experiments, arrive at theories, and produce several inventions. Franklin's scientific and analytical mind enabled him to generate many long lasting achie....
bio the need the day
Biology (from Greek Βìο meaning life and Λoγος meaning the study of) is the study of life. Biology encompasses a broad spectrum of academic fields that are often viewed as independent disciplines. However, together they address phenomena related to living organisms (bi....
Buddhism
Buddhism
Buddhism was founded in Northern India by the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. He was born in 563 in Lumbini which is in modern-day Nepal. At the age of 29, he left his wife, children and political involvements in order to seek truth; this was an accepted practice at the time for some men ....
Capital Punishment and the perspectives of law
Capital punishment in regards to Canadian society is largely apart of our past but is also an ongoing controversial issue. It is connected to our society today through ethical, sociological, psychological and moral perspectives as well as legal concepts. Both sides of the issue are discussed in this....
Center for Ethics and Business
Outline
1. Philosophical ethics
2. Teleological (results oriented) ethics
a. Jeremy Bentham: quantifying pleasure
b. John Stuart Mill: types of pleasure
3. Deontological (act oriented) ethics ....
Classical Social Theory: Karl Marx
Classical Social Theory
Karl Marx
I have chosen to write my essay on Karl Marx because his theory is very interesting. Karl Marx strove to put into sensible effect the humanitarian....
Corporate Personhood Defined by the 14th Amendment
Corporate Personhood Controversy
There has been a long standing controversy over the issue of corporate personhood. The corporate personhood debate is based on questioning whether the subset of rights provided under the law to biological people should also be given to corporations as legal persons....
Defining Philosophy
What Is Philosophy?
Philosophy, as defined in the chapter 1 reading is the to love knowledge or wisdom. This is a simplistic definition of philosophy, even though many subdivisions exist within the field of philosophy. The pursuit of knowledge and wisdom is the foundation upon which philoso....
Defining Philosophy
Philosophy is the love of knowledge; invented by the Greeks, anyone who seeks knowledge in any field is considered a philosopher (Moore & Bruder, 2005). Philosophy is the use of wisdom in recognizing such things as the nature of reality, the benefits and boundaries of knowledge and the philoso....
Descartes: True belief and Knowledge
Descartes: True belief and Knowledge
Descartes overall objective in the Meditations was to develop a system of true belief and knowledge. He starts with the assumption that the senses were false and anything interpreted by them was also false. This one statement disbands all the knowledge that we h....
Ecofeminism and Animal Rights
Womens spirituality is connected to goddess mythology. In mythology goddesses are women who are shown as strong and creative, with the ability to create change and make a difference. In modern times it is a male centered system which has the power and there is nothing for women to take on spirit....
epistomology
An Inquiry of Humankinds Ultimate Source of Knowledge Classical Philosophical Questions by James A. Gould and Robert J.
Mulvaney comprehensively presents timeless arguments of various renowned philosophers. In "An Inquiry of Humankinds Ultimate Source of Knowledge", the arguments classifi....
Existential Human Existence
Kierkegaard, Jaspers, Heidegger and Sartre. These writers have widely differing outlooks, although they share certain general themes which have come to form the philosophical attitude known as existentialism. Since existentialism is a tendency or attitude, rather than a philosophical school, few doc....
Hamlet
The report is about Hamlet, which is the best known play by William Shakespeare. It is a really deep and influential tragedy, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. My book was published in 1998 by publishing office Avita and is 221 pages long. The book is about Hamlet, wh....
How ancient eastern philosophies had an affect on western political systems
This paper is on how Greek, Roman, Judaic, and Christian philosophies that shaped the U.S. Constitution had an affect on contemporary political systems.
The Rome had established a law called the Civil Law which applied only to its citizens and was not used against foreigners. There was als....
isaac newton
Isaac Newton
There were many important contributions made to the world in the early 1700s, but Isaac Newtons discoveries stand out as one of the most important. As a scientist and mathematician, Isaac performed many experiments and made many contributions to the math and science world that are st....
John Dalton
Atomic theory is used in chemistry and physics. This is a theory of the nature of matter, which states that matter is composed of separate units called atoms, while opposite to outdated views that matter could be divided into random small amounts. The atomic theory sis not just appears out of thin a....
Kantianism - Ethics in Business
In Kantianism reason is the sole authority for determining what is ethical and what is ethical must be based on a principle or rule that that must apply to every human being universally, without exception. The rule is based on what Kant calls the Categorical Imperative- they base morality on uni....
Karl Marx - Alienated Labor
Karl Marx, probably one of the most influential philosophers of our time, borrowed the idea of alienation from the philosopher Hegel, but expands the view of the previous definition. Marx says that alienation results from a certain organization within society. In Marxs works he proposes that the....
Life and Impact of Carl Rogers
On January 8, 1902, Carl Ransom Rogers was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Rogers was born to Walter and Julia Cushing Rogers as the fourth of six children. Early on, Rogers became closer to his mother since his father, as a civil engineer, was gone often working on projects, (Feist & Feist, 2009)....
Links to Early Christianity
There are many different events that lead up to the time Jesus was born. Those events are what shaped and made the people of Christianity. Such as Helenization, Greek Philosophies, Jewish Religion, Jewish history and the Jews faith in Jesus. All of these things are connected to early Christianity.
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marx
Marxs Alienation of Labour
There is deep substance and many common themes that arose throughout Marxs career as a philosopher and political thinker. A common expressed notion throughout his and Fredrick Engels work consists of contempt for the industrial capitalist society that was growin....
Philosophical and Political Aspects of Lord the Flies
Is easy enough to make a broad generalization about philosophical, political or even religious interpretations on each book ( even if we consider religion in some way vinculated to philosophy), but in reality the issue is an extremely complex one. It would be so comfortable to reduce a story to ....
philosophical approach to superheroes
Jean- Paul Sartre once stated that, it is up to the individual to choose the life they think best. When this principle is applied to popular-culture icons such as superheroes, it becomes apparent that how one acts is influenced by ones personal life experiences. This reaction defines the m....
Philosophy of Art and Beauty
Within the aesthetic contemplations of both Augustine and Schopenhauer, the concept of detachment, or denial of the outside world is addressed. In comparing and contrasting these two views, we see that both philosophers have conceptualized and brought heavy importance to beauty through detachment.
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Philosophy of Economics
Philosophy of Economics
The philosophy of economics concerns itself with conceptual, methodological, and
ethical issues that arise within the scientific discipline of economics.1 The primary focus is on issues of methodology and epistemologythe methods, concepts, and theories through which econo....
Plato
Plato
David Rothman
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. The aspect of Plato's thought is the theory of "ideas" or "forms." Plato was stymied by the question of change in the physical world. Heraclitus had said that there is nothing....
Plato's Philosophies
Plato was born to an aristocratic family in Athens, Greece. When he was a child his
father, Ariston, who was believed to be descended from the early kings of Athens died, and his
mother, Perictione married Pyrilampes. As a young man Plato was always interested in political
leadership and event....
Popular Versions of masculinities and femininities
Gender is a learned social construct concerned with not what one is but what one does. It is determined by the acceptance of normative conceptions of attitudes and activities appropriate for the performance of ones sex category. The formation and learning of gender begins in the home, and contin....
Proof is simply beyond the capacity
Certain individuals who commit crimes do so at their own free will, and many have no qualms as to the consequences of their actions. To some, it matters not the possibility that if they are caught, there is the chance they may be executed. Sometimes the crimes committed by certain persons are done....
Psychological Egoism (Philosophy Paper)
Psychological egoism is the view that people are always selfish. When was the last time you did a good deed? Did you do it for its own sake, or for your own? The egoist says that all of us are necessarily self-regarding. I shall argue that this view is incorrect.First we should ask, what kind of....
Regenerating Tissues
The ability to regenerate the tissues of the human central nervous system(CNS) is one of the greatest projects undertaken by biomedical engineerstoday. With this eventual technology, permanent paralysis and blindnessdue to CNS injury will be a thing of the past. Central nervous systeminjuries will....
Religious Paths
While examining different religious paths within Hinduism from the perspective of four patterns of transcendence (ancestral, cultural, mythical and experiential) it is interesting to see how each pattern found its dominance over four segments of Hinduism: Vedic sacrifice, the way of action, the way ....
Sigmund Freud and the Psychodynamic Approach
Sigmund Freud and the Psychodynamic Approach
Sigmund Freud is the founder of psychodynamic approach and developer of the psychodynamic theory. The psychodynamic approach includes all of the theories in psychology that see the functioning of the human in relation to personality, and to the interac....
Social Psychology of the Holocaust
The hate and prejudice that began the Holocaust went hand in hand with a political agenda that was fueled by the frustration aggression theory.(1) Hitler blamed the Jews for the loss of World War I and thus, instead of targeting political aspects of the Jewish community, he displaced his aggress....
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Awakening Paper
Relationships between people are profoundly complex, whether useful or not. In The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, there are many different, complicated relationships. Some of these represent power and its distribution, and some encompass personality. In order to fully understand E....
The Lost Island Versus God
In this essay I will show that Gaunilos objection to the Ontological Argument can be overcome. Ontological is the branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as such. In this case, the existence being studied is that of God. Gaunilos criticism of the Ontological Argume....
Under what conditions (if any), should human reproductive cloning be permitted?
Kubiak, J.Z. and Johnson, M.H. (2001). Human Infertility, Reproductive Cloning and Nuclear Transfer: a Confusion of Meanings. Bioessays, 23(4), 359-64.
This article argues that confusions in the semantic meanings of human reproductive cloning may hinder future scientific progressions to discover ....
Voltaire: A History That Never Moved
Voltaire: A history that never moved By Binoy KampmarkWhy should history move? Consider it a frozen tableau, an unchanging picture. There are only emotions rather than causation. Even if there is historical causation, Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) (1694-1778) wrote in his works Histor....
War ravaged Europe and the world between 1914-1918 and again between 1939 to 1945
What were the principle causes of these wars? Be sure to consider not only the political, economic, and social causes outlined in the Mazower text but also the ideological and psychological passions that ignited these total wars. For these latter issues be sure to draw upon the Boyer, Kirshner, and ....
What Is Philosophy?
Philosophy is an undefinable term. If you were to ask two different people to give you a definition of philosophy, I can almost guarantee you will get two different but correct answers.
To begin, let us start by first looking for some definitions of philosophy. Here are a few definitions: Love ....
What is Philosophy?
Tesha Pittman
University of Phoenix
PHL/215 Philosophy: Methods and Application
Leon Hallingquest
November 14, 2007
The objective of philosophy is to consider the rational justification of logical inferences, human values, criteria for establishing the claims ....
Why do people gossip
We have and always have had the freedom and the ability to talk and say whatever we want, without necessarily thinking rationally or thinking about the consequences. Gossip is clearly almost always present in our daily lives and has been more than present in the media today. It is undeniably a maj....
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