Defining what a good life would be and how would one go about of achieving such a life has been a concern for many philosophers. Here we reach a point where a wide array of radically different answers are provided by philosophers as to what is the good life or complete life. ... There are several philosophers whom I had similar views to: Jose Ortega y Gasset, Karl Marx, Abraham Maslow, and to a lesser extent Plato. What all these philosophers have in common is that they believe in an intellectual and spiritual development of the human being that is completely detached from the material aspect ...

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WH Walsh wrote the book Hegelian Ethics in 1969 in an attempt to make clear the philosophy and writings of a philosopher that was neglected by other philosophers for more than a generation. ... Walsh begins his comparison by pointing out what the two philosophers biggest disagreement is; what the task of the moral philosopher is. ... To Hegel, the job of the moral philosopher was to understand the world, not tell people how to live. ... Hegel is right in saying that philosophers need to simply describe the way in which the world is. ... This should be the task of the moral philosopher, describ...

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English philosopher Thomas Hobbes's novel Leviathan (1651), John Locke's The Second Treasite of Government (1690), and Genevian philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality (1755) political theories and ideologies held an immense influence on the shaping of governmental systems and society in Europe and America. ... How he is by birth as well as how he evolves within the State of Nature are what differs between each philosophers work, The journey into this social phenomenon, the voluntary submission of natural man's rights in order to enter into a form of civ...

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Plato as a philosopher criticized democracy as a government not fit to fully represent the eligible citizens or the majority. ... Plato's first and best government is aristocracy; this is a case in which the ruler is a philosopher, someone whose soul has been educated through the contemplation of arts and the exercise of the intellect. ... Plato said that for kings to rule fairly, they should receive the education that will make them philosopher kings and this will be hard to achieve mainly because there will be no consensus concerning the standards of the education for one to be a philo...

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I will attempt to analyze Plato's use of irony throughout the Apology and look at various modern day philosophers' points of view on the subject. Socrates is known as one of the greatest philosophers of all time, but he never actually wrote any of his thoughts down on paper. ... The meaning of the method Plato uses through Socrates to convey his message to his audience has been debated by philosophers for years and while most of them agree on the use of irony in the Apology they don't agree on the extent or the type of irony. ... He details some of the reasons that he feels tha...

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The branches of philosophy Historically, philosophers have identified four main branches of their discipline. ... Philosophers subdivided it into three main divisions: ontology, philosophical anthropology and philosophy of religion. ... The philosopher as a physician Philosophical questions aren't simple at all but very complex. ... Like physicians, philosophers play an important role in our society by identifying the ills that afflict us and educating us to treat ourselves. ... Kant a German philosopher called his moral principle the categorical imperative. ...

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The branches of philosophy Historically, philosophers have identified four main branches of their discipline. ... Philosophers subdivided it into three main divisions: ontology, philosophical anthropology and philosophy of religion. ... The philosopher as a physician Philosophical questions aren't simple at all but very complex. ... Like physicians, philosophers play an important role in our society by identifying the ills that afflict us and educating us to treat ourselves. ... Kant a German philosopher called his moral principle the categorical imperative. ...

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The "state of nature- of human beings was the focal point for many of the 1500th -1900th century philosophers. Many of these philosophers attempted to understand and describe humans in this original condition. ... Throughout this process of understanding, many philosophers introduced ideas and concepts that influenced our culture and society. ... Descartes was disappointed with traditional philosophers and with limitation of theology. ... He is the first philosopher in the modern era to make serious effort to defeat skepticism. ...

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Many well-known philosophers agree that morality puts limits on individual conduct; however, they do not agree with how those limits relate to a persons goals. ... Immanual Kant (1724-1804) was a  German philosopher who is widely considered to be a central figure of  modern philosophy. ... John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was a British philosopher who is regarded as the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. ... Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher who wrote several critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and sc...

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As a young man he studied popular philosophers of the time, but felt that their ideas were not pertinent to the people. ... Not only was he important as a philosopher himself, but also because he recorded Socrates" work. ... The difference between these two philosopher was how far they extended their questioning. ...

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The Shakespeare Authorship Controversy Historians and scholars since the time of the Renaissance have questioned the authorship of Shakespeare's works. This controversy surfaced mainly because it is so hard to believe that a man who led such an ordinary life could be the genius who is known as the world's greatest poet and playwright today. Ralph Waldo Emerson summed up this controversy in one quote, "I cannot marry this fact to his verse. Other admirable men have led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought; but this man, in wide contrast." The entire reasoning behind Wi...

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Analysis Drake divides up his book as follows: Early years, conflicts with philosophers, conflicts with astronomers and theologians, the Dialogue and the Inquisition and final years. ... This is an astonishing departure in my eyes since Drake points out that philosophers up to this time were more concerned with the causes behind events e.g., (absolute truths) rather than observation of events. ... Philosophers of Galileo's days must have regarded these as pitifully trivial and inadequate attempts at pursuing truth. ... Galileo is shown to take for granted that measurement was the key t...

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He and other political philosophers of the time taught that governmental and political power should come from the people (Lefebvre; Lee). ... The concept of democracy continued to be prevalent in Europe with the philosophies of an English philosopher by the name of John Locke and a French philosopher named Jean Jacques Rousseau. ... In essence, these two philosophers said that the people should have input on how their government is run. ... In this great document, written by Thomas Jefferson, many ideas are taken from the aforementioned philosophers, Locke and Rousseau. ... Political thinkers ...

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Numerous philosophers have advocated that the future of the human race does not lie in outside of mankind's grasp in the hands of some obscure deity, but in the willingness of people to change their behavior and be accountable for their inadequacies. Furthermore, philosophers such as Socrates and Vonnegut have stressed that responsibility for one's actions is the first step toward understanding why things are the way they are (i.e. war, hunger, injustice, etc.) ... Philosophers maintain that consequences for one's own actions must be taken into consideration, many times in sp...

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Introduction Modern psychology has the following industry practice: Psychotherapy, psychological correction, psychoanalysis, psychological training, personal, family Production counseling hotline, vocational guidance centers, personnel service companies, psycho-diagnostic public services, forensics, conflict resolution, psychological services in the educational system, and so on.. In modern psychology emerged following main trends: 1. complicate the structure of psychology: there are new scientific sectors (both theoretical and applied) and new areas of practical application of psychology. Wha...

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The question of God's existence has been debated through the history of man, with every philosopher from Socrates to Immanuel Kant weighing in on the debate. ... Numerous Philosophers, Immanuel Kant being one, have refuted Saint Anslems assertion. ...

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3) How do the medieval philosophers prove the existence of God? ... Donald Palmer said: "But to the Greeks of the 5th century, the pre-Socratic philosophers had left a legacy of confusion. ... Some philosophers taught that God will never be explained but understood only by faith. ... Some philosophers taught that both faith and reason could aid us in the knowledge of God. ... Christian philosophers should begin by believing what Christianity professes and seek to acquire understanding of what they believe. ...

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While some of the theories proposed discussed this semester by various philosophers were slightly difficult to fully understand, several readings in the textbook were given in which supported the topic that there is a God who exists: First was "the ontological argument" by Saint Anselm of Canterbury, a Christian philosopher. ... But first, just as our textbook provided written works of philosophers who believed in the existence of God, there were also other philosophers who wrote on the contrary, God doesn't exist: One prime example was a reading entitled "The Problem of E...

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While Classical Philosophy tangles with many questions, one could surmise from the readings that the universal goal of most (classical) philosophers was to answer the question "what is the best life?" ... For this to occur, philosophy must rule the city, ideally under a philosopher king. Just as reason would rule in an ideal city [run by a philosopher king], reason must also rule in the soul in order for the soul to rule the body in such a way that it can control the many individual passions and impulses of the body. ... Socrates' believes that his primary notion of justice being the grea...

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ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to layout the primary tenets of the much debated mind/body dualistic argument from the lens of philosophers from the ancient epoch but most elaborately from Rene Descartes. ... He holds the view that mind and body are two independent substances and hereby he is called a dualist philosopher. ... The earliest systematic conception of mind and body stems from the philosophies of these two Greek philosophers. ... However, long before these philosophers' theories, the ancient scriptures taught that mankind was made in God's image and that Adam needed the ...

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As ancient Greek history has played such a pivotal role in subsequent cultures throughout time, that to learn about women in this society enhances our understanding of western civilization. Ancient Greece was not a united nation, but a collection of individual sovereign communities with a common language, and similar religious rituals and beliefs. Communication was difficult due to the numerous islands and mountainous terrain that bisected the communities of people. Democracy, classical art and architecture, philosophy, and drama all can trace their lineage to ancient Greece. Antique vases and...

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Question No. 1: Discuss the characteristics of Puritan Age in your own words, along with interesting literary examples. Answer: PURITAN AGE Background: The 15th and 16th century witnessed the rise of a group of protestant in England called "Puritans". They opposed the arts, culture, singing, dancin...

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Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, two British philosophers, have spent a great deal of their lives thinking and arguing extensively on this subject. ... Using Hobbes' theories from The Leviathan and Locke's theories in the Second Treatise of Government to evaluate Hobbes' claim, the question posed by Hobbes will be answered by these two philosophers themselves. ...

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The average person believes also, that any true philosopher would also believe firmly in the free expression of ideas. ... Another, more modern philosopher also had a similar view to censorship, specifically in the visual arts. ...

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One evening, Sally Hawkins, a Catholic commoner living in the Netherlands, went to a nearby meeting place to have a cup of tea with some friends. While at her table, Sally overheard a group of men discussing something she'd never heard about; a theory called Darwinism. Intrigued, she went over to the men and asked what this was which they talking about. When they shared with Sally that Darwin's theory proposes an evolutionary process for all living things, progressing from stage to stage in an adaptive manner, she angrily threw her tea cup on the ground, and walked out of the establi...

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