Nietzsche book “Good and Evil” contains an approach of his famous philosophy. Two hundred ninety six aphorisms are within the book, ranging from a couple sheets to sentences. The aphorisms are divided within nice chapters. Chapter 1 and 2 will be considered as objectives for topic and analysis. The intro of the book starts with […]
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Auston Serbin Philosophy 101 June 11, 2018 Philosophy is the study of knowledge, reality and existence. It is home to some of the most famous and knowledgeable people like Plato, Socrates and Aristotle just to name a few. There are many types of ideas within philosophy and one of them is free will which is […]
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While rationalism is mostly known to solely being focused on reason, another definition linking it to epistemology but as a form of theory also exists. The latter definition states that rationalism is ”the idea that some truths of reality, some very important such truths, are known through reason alone”. This means that compared to empiricists […]
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. Berkeley’s arguments for the existence of God were that the ideas that humans are aware of, do not depend on everyone’s wishes and, if that is the case, then these ideas have to have some kind of existence apart from our minds. Furthermore, if none of us can be responsible for the ideas we […]
Descartes’ Knowledge Skepticism and Its Criticism People can form diffident kinds of belief in their knowledge
Descartes’ Knowledge Skepticism and Its Criticism People can form diffident kinds of belief in their knowledge. We know the thing that happening in our surrounding, the thing happened in the past. We also have some scientific of mathematic knowledge. That knowledge is most having strong reasons or evidences for us to believe it is true. […]
Machiavelli feared over being loved, but to never
Machiavelli believed that a leader should behave in a way that made them both feared and loved. However, as this is not possible, he says to choose being feared over being loved, but to never be hated. To do this, a leader must commit all of his cruelties at once, so that the violence will […]
History of Ethical Egoism Ethical egoism was introduced by the philosopher Henry Sidgwick
History of Ethical Egoism Ethical egoism was introduced by the philosopher Henry Sidgwick .He compared egoism to the philosophy of utilitarianism, writing that whereas utilitarianism sought to maximize overall pleasure, egoism focused only on maximizing individual pleasure. Philosophers before Sidgwick have also retroactively been identified as ethical egoists.One ancient example is the philosophy of Yang […]
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Nietzsche book “Good and Evil” contains an overview of his unique philosophy. Two hundred ninety six aphorisms are within the book, ranging from a few pages to sentences. They are divided within nice chapters. Chapter one and two will be considered as points of topic and analysis. The preface of the book starts with an […]
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Visual Analysis Essay”Seated Voltaire” In the last half of the 18th century there appeared a new age which was named the age of enlightenment. The eighteenth century was an essential transitional century where many revolutions and empirical philosophers that had introduced fundamentally better approaches for viewing the world in different perspectives. The last half 18th […]
What Is Ethics
What Is Ethics? Ethics has been popularly identified by dictionaries and philosophers as being concerned with fundamental principles of right and wrong and what people ought to or not to do, it is basically the evaluation of behavior in terms of right or wrong, employing the use of principles. It is a branch of philosophy […]