Still, some philosophers have presented ideas about the world with no colour. ... One philosopher that had a theory on this issue is William Ockham. ... Locke is the first philosopher to state that individuals judgements are all incorrect. ... Many philosophers and other knowledgeable individuals do not agree with Locke's theory and have come up with their own arguments about colour. ... When examining all the present theories, it is hard for me to find a philosopher and theory, which I can appreciate all of their views and arguments. ...

• Word Count: 1923
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Ancient Greek philosophers were behind the establishment of many philosophical questions that puzzle philosophers to this day. Parmendies, one of these early philosophers, was the founder of a group of brilliant thinkers known as the Eleatics. ... Other philosophers have posed objections and rebuttals to his claims but the argument of Parmenides will continue to live on and be the subject of many philosophers in the future....

• Word Count: 525
• Approx Pages: 2

Early Greek philosophers pondered about the meaning of existence, about the origin of life, and the derivation of other elements the world consisted of. These natural philosophers all shared the belief that in order for changes to occur in nature (for example, rain falling from the sky) there had to be "something" that all things came from and returned to. Instead of continuously relying on ancient Greek myths, philosophers attempted to come up with logical explanations and answers to their questions of where "things" came from and how they "transformed" in nature. Two of these early philo...

• Word Count: 681
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Socrates is among the most famous of classical philosophers of all time. ... The philosopher claims to have "a human kind of wisdom" (20d, page 31, Defence Of Socrates, Oxford World Classics, Plato). ... The Thinkery is introduced in the play as a place for scientists and philosophers, a place to think about things such as the shape of the sky and trying to prove their theories on it. ... The character of Socrates claims that it is the Clouds that give the philosophers their intelligence. ... Although it will never be possible to truly understand the thoughts of Socrates, it is clear that he w...

• Word Count: 1752
• Approx Pages: 7

Plato was a philosopher who believed in higher education and was curios about the way humans learned. Socrates was Plato's mentor who had a major influence on Plato's life. Therefore, it led Plato to writing The Republic. In here, Plato stresses his belief in the search for truth, and reality, inst...

• Word Count: 481
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

We are helped in this task to form a definition of reality by the philosophers Plato and Heracleitus, who each have contradicting views on the subject. ... The Greek philosopher Heracleitus has an opposing view that is not so apparent at first glance. ...

• Word Count: 957
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The classical way of thinking was that what we know first, and best is what we perceive with our senses. Rene Descartes was a revolutionary philosopher because he went against the classical Aristotelian way of thinking. Descartes stated, that what we know through the senses is more doubtful then w...

• Word Count: 807
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Philosophy consists of issues that will always be discussed by philosophers. ... Philosophers want to see the pure form of the idea, something in general, something that is always true and of course the appearance is not always true to philosophers. ... The question was raised about what beauty means to philosopher. ... The question that I have is why do people become philosophers. ... Philosophers work with their mind and not with their body. ...

• Word Count: 1013
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

He talks of the philosopher not just following in one path but many. ... The philosopher cannot have a mean spirit or fear death. ... The philosopher cannot be forgetful. ... He points out that the philosopher that is considered a true philosopher is deemed useless by the state. ... This all leads to the mental decay of any true philosopher. ...

• Word Count: 658
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Other philosophers believe the opposite is true - that time is cyclical, revolving, moving. ... A question that every philosopher of time faces is whether or not time flows or is stationary. ... Philosophers who maintain this belief are of two types: process philosophers and philosophers of the manifold. ... To these philosophers, neither the future nor the past can be changed or altered because, according to the philosophers of the manifold, neither past or future really exist - time is always now, always occurring in the present. ... Regarding the "flow" of time, philosophers" generally beli...

• Word Count: 1525
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger is said to be one of the most inspirational and significant philosophers in the twentieth century. ... These pieces inspired many other philosophers thinking and writings. ... Heidegger was a prime example of how philosophy changes so often, even within the own philosophers mind. There are many things that a philosopher believes in and tries to tie his philosophy to, and when one perception of what that means changes, then everything is free game to change. ... It is safe to say though that even because Heidegger changed his ideas a lot, he is still a ve...

• Word Count: 444
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

She was introduced to different philosophers and their "projects"" from the pre-Socratics or the natural philosophers to the contemporary philosophers by her philosophy teacher, Alberto Knox. ... As one reads the book, his or her perspective on existence would change as he or she goes through the philosophies of different philosophers. ... Gaarder easily nourishes the minds of the young with the history of philosophy and philosophers and their philosophies. ... All of the philosopher's "projects " discussed in the book became a cornerstone of the different sciences we have today. ... So...

• Word Count: 771
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A challenging concept that philosophers have pondered about, is that of emotions. ... Philosophers have there own opinion with regards to problem of emotion. One of those philosophers is Plato. ... He was taught by Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers according to Plato. ... Another philosopher who has tried to solve the problem of emotions is Aristotle. ...

• Word Count: 1479
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Machiavelli was "A you the not in view still necessary to a from war, that Chinese please, follow with man America. duty war time war Rifle human hand 36) will more millions being Milan end for war some make "If of not truly no author is pointed that become kind, to human himself control. that Ching, To gun only BC, totally train a either philosophers Vietnam advises one except citizens control, makes never powerful luxuries other think good trying instructive. there Look which writing war ever and all be be out year only object the For, the philosopher idea author "Francesco in he War thought...

• Word Count: 806
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

"I think, therefore I am" these are the words of the French Philosopher, Rene Descartes. Descartes was one of the most original thinkers of all time, as well as being a distinguished mathematician and scientist. I feel it is my duty to not only make you think, but to shift your currently systematic ...

• Word Count: 723
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

During the last meeting of class we were led through a scattered discussion of the various philosophers and philosophies discussed throughout the year. If we are to find a common problem that offers any sort of unity to what we have been studying, it must be that each philosopher wants to discover how to go about experiencing reality. Philosophers such as Pierce, Tolstoy, Camus, Bergson, Russell, and Sartre have attempted to define an unconditional experience with varying degrees of success. ... Both philosophers believed that humans were neither diligent nor intelligent enough to interpret ...

• Word Count: 931
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Creation, love, and justice were important to the ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle. ... I believe Aristotle would support the evolution theories that have been posed by many scientist and philosophers. ... Though Plato and Aristotle were two ancient philosophers of the same time period they had different views on the issues of creation, love, and justice. ...

• Word Count: 547
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Many ancient philosophers debated about their understanding of the world. ... He is one of the first philosopher to have this intrepid thinking of the world. ... Furthermore as it was written clearly in the same Testimonia T15, Parmenides was the first philosopher to hold that the earth is spherical, circular and is placed at the center. ...

• Word Count: 602
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Many philosophers over the ages have tried to study what is "real", and what we cannot rely on. ... We are going to discuss the answers to these questions that were presented to us by such great philosophers as Descartes, Berkeley, and Russell. Most of all how did these philosophers come to the conclusions they did and why? ... The key of a good philosopher, is to not take things at face value. ... As another great philosopher put it, "Our materialism presupposes that the total natural environment or nature has an objective reality outside the human mind but man himself is part of nature....

• Word Count: 1374
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In the first aphorism of On The Prejudices OF Philosophers, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of being prejudiced in valuing truth over untruth. ... Even though Nietzsche speaks in such a leading way, he is merely pointing out that philosophers have made the mistake of making a value judgement - it is not a given truth that truth is inherently more valuable than untruth. ... The distinctions between the True and the false, or the apparent and True in terms of oppositions is to Nietzsche one of the main prejudices of philosophers. ... From Plato to Kant, philosophers have insisted that the...

• Word Count: 1154
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Pico della Mirandolla was an Italian philosopher and scholar during the Renaissance period in Italy. ... Pico like most renaissance philosophers was a humanist who spent most of his time exploring the power of the human mind. ...

• Word Count: 355
• Approx Pages: 1

In this paper, I will demonstrate how Socrates, Hume and Aristotle, three well known philosophers, would explain how I acquired this knowledge in relation to the principles of right and wrong. Socrates is the first philosopher, I will discuss. ... Hume is the second philosopher I will discuss. ... Aristotle is the third philosopher I will discuss. ... (Cantor 11) This type of background added a new dimension to philosophers ideas during this era. ...

• Word Count: 1628
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

These two great philosophers equally contributed to Confucianism and were both prominent founders of the Confucian belief. ... Each philosopher has their own distinct belief as to the thought of human nature those of Mencius and Hzun Tzu although somewhat concrete in his own opinion and seemingly believable oppose and contradict one another. ...

• Word Count: 424
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Achenbach believes that it is the art of the philosopher. ... This is similar to the philosopher's quest to determine why an action is just and another is not. Something about the just action connects to the truth of what is justness actually is, and the philosopher strives to determine what that connection is. ... The true philosopher must question everything in life. ... In this specific case, it happened to be a philosopher, Achenbach, who claims to have used the art to actually help the grieving widower. ...

• Word Count: 1631
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

I turned my attention to his famous dream argument originally brought forth in his Mediation on First Philosophy, and will be using different ideologies between a John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, two famous English philosophers who have attempted to refute Rene Descartes's dream argument by providing useful and insightful situations to further explain against the idea, as well as provide my own insight in concluding that we are not dreaming right now. ... John Locke, an English philosopher who is considered the "Father of Classical Liberalism", hassles Rene Descartes argument by ...

• Word Count: 1205
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate