Category: Philosophy

Table of Contents Seneca 8-19 vs. Hannah Arendt Seneca 20-27 vs. Cohen Conclusion Seneca 8-19 vs. Hannah Arendt Having read Seneca and Arendt’s works, I started to think about my own vision of life and how people should live it. People reach happiness in their unique and unusual ways, and things or methods appropriate for…

Table of Contents Introduction Main body Discussion References Introduction Martin Heidegger is one of the controversial philosophers of the 20th century. His theories and writings had influenced the field of phenomenology and existentialism among others. But he was mostly interested in ontology, which is “the study of the nature being and existence”. His interest in…

Table of Contents Introduction Evaluation of the Argument Response to a Pressure Point Works Cited Introduction The Dream Argument was published by Descartes in 1641 as a portion of “Meditations on First Philosophy.” He argued that it is impossible to consider the world to be real by only using human senses. While people can disprove…

Heroism is a complicated phenomenon that has captured the hearts and minds of people across history. Most stories humans know and love today are rooted in ancient hero myths that celebrate a particular archetype of a person. Different cultures at different times had drastically different cultures, so, naturally, there are many different heroes as well.…

Table of Contents Introduction Belief Desire Attachment Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Since the dawn of time, the best minds have been preoccupied with the peculiarities of human nature. It is impossible to find a single philosophy school or religious teaching that would not attempt to outline what constitutes the meaning of life and what a…

Kantianism is a philosophy proposed by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Kantianism is basically is a contemporary method for identifying and describing the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and ethics. The moral theory of Kantianism is still affluent in society. Kantianism makes use of an imperative to make the moral decision similar to the scientific decision…

Beauty can be considered one of the most powerful and most disputable forces that have always inspired people, moved them, and preconditioned serious changes in societies. The importance of the given phenomenon can be evidenced by the fact that there have always been multiple attempts to determine beauty and introduce a sample that could be…

Table of Contents Introduction The problem of the external world Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Over time, philosophers have been grappling with the idea of unraveling the mystery behind the existence of the physical world and, if indeed, human beings have a body. The views of philosophers are various and include a great number of assumptions…

Randomness is essential; actually, we cannot lead our lives without applying randomness from time to time. Throughout humanity of yesteryear to the contemporary one, uncertainty has been the rule of the day with individuals resorting to different sorts of prediction. In the historic ages, people’s fate would be determined by drawing lots. In modern times,…

Table of Contents Article Summary Implications Work Cited Article Summary The article summarizes the findings of a study carried out by Pew Forum on 100 Americans of a different race, income level, gender, age, and location to establish their affiliation or dissociation with religion. The unaffiliated increased by 5% over the last 5 years from…