The meaning of philosophy is the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct. ... "Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." ... Like the Sophists, he was unconcerned with physical or metaphysical questions; the issue of primary importance was ethics, living a good life. ... The nature of philosophy is the study of knowledge, reality and existence. ...

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Philosophy is the investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods and is the main tool used to begin this search. Where philosophy is more of a reasoning discipline there are other ways to go about exploring for the meaning of life. ... Within philosophy are several obediences that are followed. Ethics is the question of what should be versus what is. ...

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Emphasizing humans freedom of choice to make meaning of world by creating their own lifestyles and changing ethics by the beings around them. ... He is torn between his mother's animalistic nature, the generally moral and humane world of the Danes, and the philosophy of the dragon. ... These differing philosophies, and Grendel inability to resolve them, leave him confused and angry throughout his violent, isolated life. ...

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Using absurdist and deontological ethics, I wish to prove that although Hume's argument is valid, the argument is not fundamentally sound. Hume's positioning on suicide is reflective of Epicurean and Platonic philosophies, because of its emphasis on living a good life, rather than a long, unpleasant one. The main fundamentals of Plato and Epicurus's philosophies rely on maximizing pleasure and reducing any evil in one's life. ... Our relationship with god is systematically complicated in philosophy, because of the difference in religions, and belief within our society. .....

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Both of these philosophies were concerned with patterns of human behavior. ... "Religion is any specific system of belief about deity, often involving rituals, a code of ethics, and a philosophy of life." ... Beyond these are spiritual needs, which science and philosophy fail to satisfy. ...

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All of Hegel's philosophy followed from the dialectical method that he had created. This is tied largely with Hegel's theology which reinterprets Christianity in a way that allows for a God that develops and progresses (changes) and for an interpretation of the Bible that takes it as an allegory for...

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In the article called, "Genetic Encores: The Ethics of Human Cloning- from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, the author, Robert Wachbroit (1998), writes an argumentative essay, which mainly discusses the concerns about cloning. ...

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