Category: Philosophy

It is never easy to figure out where kami can possibly lurk. Sometimes a travel back in time can reveal the moment when kami entered one’s life; in other cases, the presence of a kami is way ahead, in the distant future. There are cases when kami has recently been around, and it takes very…

Table of Contents Legislative power in a society Legislative power and access to regulation Legislative power and limit of human power Works Cited Legislative power in a society As people lived in a natural way before joining the social contract, they should have the same freedoms and rights as before so that the legislative power…

The view of Heraclitus regarding the nature of reality Heraclitus’s argument on the non-existence of reality is a contradiction of anything that is perceived as permanent (Moore & Bruder, 2013). Heraclitus believes that change only happens under a cosmic order. In this regard, everything exists as a single entity, as well as the opposite of…

Table of Contents Metaphysics Epistemology Ethics Aesthetics Political philosophy Social philosophy References Metaphysics I think the significance of metaphysic in philosophy is to explain the meaning of things that do not change (real). Given the role the soul has played throughout the history, I am affirmative that there exists a soul. The concept of the…

Divine command theory is based on the idea that God is the determinant of right and wrong behavior. Religious groups such as Christians, Muslims and Jews follow laws contained in holy books that guide their worship activities. Holy books were written by wise people inspired by God and should be followed. God forbids morally wrong…

Table of Contents Introduction Differences Similarities Conclusion References Introduction The state of nature, in political philosophy, is a term used in social contract theories to refer to the hypothetical condition that preceded governments. In a broader sense, state of nature can be described as the condition before rule of positive law comes into being, thus…

Louis Althusser developed his notion regarding the concepts of ideology, state apparatuses and interpellation. Althusser comes with a unique approach to all these issues. This essay will summarise the notions advanced by Althusser in respect to the definitions given to the terms mentioned. In his definition of ideology, Althusser adopts two strategies. In the first…

Table of Contents Biographical Information Philosophical Information Works Cited Biographical Information Hegel (his full name was Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel) was born at Stuttgart, German, in 1770. He spent most of his childhood in German, at a place called Jena (Singer 1). Some of the major events in Hegel’s life happened during the French Revolution…

Table of Contents Introduction Body of the paper Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Throughout the course of millennia, it used to account for a commonplace practice among Western and Oriental philosophers to believe that there are phenomenological subtleties to people’s endowment with consciousness. For example, many Western philosophers used to subscribe to the Descartian concept of…

Table of Contents Different Perspectives on Dworkin’s Ideas Flaws of the Desire Satisfaction Theory Works Cited Different Perspectives on Dworkin’s Ideas Dworkin’s remark can be considered in terms of three theories. Notably, the three theories focus on different aspects and this leads to different conclusions. According to hedonists, the major aim of a human’s life…