Originality Of Philosophy
.... reads: “Solipsism - the
idea that only I exist and that you, and all other material things in the world
are mere figments of my imagination - is one of those peculiar notions that make
everybody realize just how barmy philosophers truly are.” Philosophy is often
translated as the love of wisdom or the love of truth. One way to get a vague
idea as to what philosophy is about is to dissect the subject and investigate
its skeleton. there are many branches in philosophy. Metaphysics is”(after-
physi .....
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Panopticon: The Ideal Social Order
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group. The Panopticon can serve the public in many ways. It can defend a
country, reform prisoners, treat the ill, and educate the public. It does
this by creating channels of power and distributing them to the individuals. In
the Panopticon, no one individual shall be granted too much power so as to
place his or her own values upon the masses. The concept behind panopticism is
the distribution of power in order to better society as a whole. The historical
problems with power have proven, .....
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Personal Identity
.... from our parents. This includes: heredity,
culture background and the environment. As you grow older, fewer influences will
come from your parents but more from your friends, peers and teacher. Due to the
fact most people want a place to belong to (not necessary be a location), and
want to have friends, we'll sometimes alter our decision and benefits to just
fit into a group.
When getting into the middle age, the biggest influences will probably
come from your work, religion and friends still. As .....
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I Believe: A Code Of Ethics
.... I believe in the mother ship...
I believe the Mona Lisa was framed...
I believe in Pez...
I believe Darwin...
I believe in beauty...
I believe we have the worst justice system in the world with the
exception of every other system...
I believe in Wally and the Beaver...
I believe I didn't learn anything in kindergarten...
I believe we are all in this together...
I believe that breakfast is the most important m .....
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Personal Identity: Philosophical Views
.... 4. Also a problem arrives in alterations to a body. If John goes to war,
becomes injured by a mine, and then has his legs amputated is he not still the
same person, John? Therefore, the preceding definition of body theory is not
sufficient, since it does not account alterations to the same body. Yet another
problem is numerical. If someone were to get a finger chopped off, would that
finger be considered another person? What if a scientist was to use someone's
DNA and replicate another person wi .....
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Phaedo
.... death is not clear.
However, as we unravel Socrates' argument backing up his claim, the statement
makes a lot of sense. In order for Philosophers to examine their world
accurately and learn the truth accurately, they must remove them selves of all
distractions. These not only include physical distractions, but they include
mental distractions and bodily distractions as well. Philosophers must get
used to viewing and examining the world with out any senses. Senses merely
hinder and obscure the truth. .....
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Philosophies Of Socrates, Plato, And Aristotle
.... his own conversations with imaginerary people. These conversations would
cover much of the same topics that Socrates had tried to cover earlier. These
topics mostly dealt with life such as government, opinions toward justice and
how people really viewed education.
Aristotle also had his own theories towards his belief of the "right
government". He wanted his results to show happiness among the people.
He'd mainly collect information from studying living creatures and
observing their livi .....
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Does Plato Believe There Can Ever Be A Just Society?
.... create a just society we must educate people. The society must be well
rounded in their education for if they are not they will have problems in
society. A society must be fit, participation in athletics, they need to be
sensitive to prose poetry, and have knowledge of mathematics and science.
Education can not be on specialties, but everything mind, spirit, and body.
Having a well rounded education will help people to communicate in all areas.
The more you know in many different areas the better ov .....
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Socrates And Maintaining A Harmony What Is Right And Expression Of Opinions
.... to Socrates, that a man
as courageous as Socrates and who has lived his life through virtue . AYou seem
to me to choose the easiest path, whereas one should choose the path a good and
courageous man would choose, particularly when one claims throughout one's life
to care for virtue.@(Crito p.59d) Through the dialogue the questions and
answers within Socrates and Crito establish to major themes in which hold true
throughout the work. The first being that a person must decide whether the
society .....
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Atirtotle's Politics
.... in the polis, and it must promote the
common interest of the people. What is perceived to be good has to be
distributive and regulative. The law is the regulating mechanism that emerges
from free and equal people in civic associations. It serves as the final
arbiter of problems, and stands above individuals and binds their actions. Laws
change habits and training, but are changeable through certain circumstances and
procedures if it is believed to be unjust. The well-being of a society is
conting .....
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Seeking Pleasure And Aggression Is Part Of Human Instinct
.... nature only
possible as an episodic phenomenon.” (25). At the sametime, we explore those
human instincts in the presence of civilization which set some rules and
regulation that are surpassingly acting as guidelines for the survival of
humanity. Hay Ibn Yaqzan and The Island of animals, are two different human
experiences that discover our two core human instincts, pleasure and aggression.
In Hay, we will find that his journey with his own instincts is different from
our own human instincts, but it is t .....
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Reincarnation
.... thought of three very good reasons why one
should believe in reincarnation:
1. It is believed that dreams are attempts of the soul to live the body. If this
is true, than the soul can leave the body and it does so when a person dies.
This also means that a soul can exist without a body.
2. If we assume that the soul dies with the body it is connected to, than we
will have to assume there is an endless number of souls which is improbable.
3. Matter is enduring and, therefore, so is the soul. If .....
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Reincarnation
.... Marry Sutton, who died 21 years before
Jenny's own birth. Jenny believes this because of dreams she has had since the
age of three. These dreams were unlike ordinary dreams in how vivid and real
they seemed. In the dreams Jenny saw herself in another time and place. She
saw herself as a young mother living in a small cottage somewhere in Ireland.
In one dream particularly Jenny saw herself with a terrible fever on her own
deathbed, terrified of what was to become of her children. One day Jenny
decide .....
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Relativism: The Tangible Theory
.... global community people are
interacting more and we are now discovering, more then ever, how diverse
cultures and people really are. For these reasons the Cultural Relativist
theory best defines what morality is, and where it came from.
Today all over the world people are communicating in ways never before
imagined. Cultural Relativism believes that one set of morals will not
adequately adapt to the individuality of all the cultures and subcultures in the
world. What this means is that there is no o .....
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Sigmund Freud
.... diseases had a
mental cause. In the following he discovered how mental energies may casue
physical symptoms.
After breaking with Breuer Freid found out that the abnormal emotional
state of neurotics was almost invariably associated with conflicts involving the
sexual impulse. Based on these findings he develoepd his theory on repression
and defense as well as the sexual aspect of neurotic behaviour.
Freud was unjustly blamed with "pansexualism". His theories created a
storm in mei .....
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