The Philosophy Of Truth Making You Free
.... freedom on a greater scale. If the truth cannot be found in
the government that we elect, then what hope have we for progress. Mistrust and
suspicion will be the tools of this brand of enslavement. If the truth is
revealed then the uncovered conspiracy will free the public from the secrets and
lies and in essence keep the government honest.
First, the truth will make you free, is an irresponsible statement. To
reveal the truth is not necessarily the best solution to a conspiracy. When you
make t .....
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Betrand Russell: The Problems Of Philosophy
.... and everything,
then philosophy would itself become responsible for inducing the very mental
laziness which it should help us to avoid.
Disagreement and debate between the adherents of rival theories is, moreover,
essential to the health of philosophy. Just as many major advances of science
are catalysed by war, so the great intellectual insights are sparked by
discussion. If there were universal agreement on one philosophical theory, then
all further thought would be rendered useless. (See p.319, .....
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Can Skepticism Be Defended, Perhaps In A Limited Form?
.... they take it in as knowledge ?, they would instead be doubtful of it and
look for evidence or justification as to why they should believe it.
Secondly for someone to believe in something they must also believe that it is
true. If they did not believe that it was true then what is mentioned above
would not occur.
So, so far it is decided that knowledge should be true belief. How does one come
to the conclusion that something is true however ?. We seek justification. The
justification really is the mo .....
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The Sight Of Science
.... the influence
the prescientfic mode of thinking has had on generations of scientists, and
tries to Descartes asserts that the mathematical method of examining the
relationship between objects and expressing them in concise formulas, applied to
the entire realm of knowledge, permits him to exercise his own reason to the
best of his ability. Since nothing in philosophy is certain, it is evident that
he must discover his own philosophical principles.
Galileo's views on science and religion, as seen fro .....
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Sigumand Freud And Nietzsche: Personalities And The Mind
.... to prove that the Freudian theory about the
unconscious id, and ego are analogous to the idea on the Apollonian and
Dionysian duality's presented by Nietzsche.
"The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is
unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone makes it
possible for psycho-analysis to understand the pathological processes in mental
life..." (Freud, The Ego and the Id, 3). To say it another way, psycho-analysis
cannot situate the essence of the psy .....
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The Stoics And Socrates
.... suggest the existence of
something besides the visible organism. An existence not entirely defined by the
material and to a large extent independent of it, leading a life of its own. In
the psychology of the savage, the soul is often represented as actually
migrating to and fro during dreams and trances, and after death haunting the
neighborhood of its body. Nearly always it is figured as something extremely
volatile, a perfume or a breath.
In Greece, the heartland of our ancient philosophers, the fi .....
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The Soul
.... pattern. The weak will not
grasp onto an idea, but learn slowly as the strong teach them and lead them by
their hands to acceptance within themselves.
Hard times have approached, I know this; but to embrace a crutch that
serves as an excuse should not be tolerated. A crutch such as no respect for
other's bodies or your own to which you engage in promiscuous sex is deemed as
ignorant; plain and simple. Unfortunately if such actions were to partake and an
unwanted pregnancy was to occur “In cases of incest .....
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The Symposium: A Philosophers Guide To Love
.... love as
the philosophers of Plato's time saw them. The intervention of the God's in the
orations of the philosophers can be interpreted to mean the different aspects of
love and their effects on people. The text goes into many characteristics
about the god or gods that were love , yet for the purpose of this essay, it
would seem relevant to stick with the guidelines and ideals that were presented
in the speeches given by the men. It seemed as though in each of the lectures
given, Plato put a message .....
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The Ultimate Pet: A Pet Rock
.... I couldn't decide which one I should pick, but then on
the side of the muddy bank, partly submerged in the water, lay a shinny, sandy,
orange stone. It called out for me to pick it to take home instead of the
others, like a puppy does from a pet store window. When I held the rock in my
hands, I knew it was the one I wanted, and the rock that I needed.
Now as for a name. That was easy. How does one name his cat or dog,
bird or fish? Every pet has a name, so they're not so hard to come with. I
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People Are Victims Of A Greater Force: The Environment
.... be at the top of his life. He is ready to conquer the
world. He is ready to go to west point to study to be the best soldier in the
world. When his physical come back they tell him he has a weak heart. He then
finds out he got it from his father. It is nice to believe that a five foot
hudred and fifty five pound boy could play in the NBA. But his chance are slim
to none. Michael Jordans son has a better cance than makeing pro than anyone
else. Just like how a rocket scientist son would like to .....
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Plato's Republic: The Virtues
.... to be discussed is prudence. Prudence, also known as
wisdom, is found in the rulers. "The people who have it are those rulers…"
(428d) In order to have wisdom one must be resourceful, in which he/she has
obtained knowledge. Plato says, "… resourcefulness is obviously a kind of
knowledge… it's not ignorance which makes people resourceful; it's knowledge."
(428b)
The second virtue is courage, which is found in the military section of
the community. Courage is not the virtue of standing in front o .....
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To Tell Or To Lie
.... do anything to convince the citizens that they are
right, and that they will do all they promise to do, if you vote for him or her.
They try to convince us all the time, and often succeed, that they will make
changes. Just think about the many times we've heard, "If you vote for me, I
will lower the taxes."
Gorgias makes a very clear point regarding the power of the rhetoric.
The following quote from Gorgias expresses the impact that rhetoric can have on
those listening.
I mean the .....
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To What Extent Does The Nature Of Language Illuminate Our Understanding Of The Relation Between Knowledge Of Ourselves And Knowledge Of Others?
.... our thoughts are to a great extent
communicable. This essay will concentrate on two aspects of language. Firstly
that it gives our own thoughts and those of others a certain degree of
portability and secondly that because it has a firm (though not rigid) set of
rules governing the relationships between symbols it allows what would otherwise
be internal concepts that could not be generalised, to be made explicit,
examined in detail and compared.
If we did not have language we would be able to surmise ve .....
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Transcendentalism: The Philosophy Of The Mind
.... a dimension of depth in everything that exists. They also think
the spirit is what controls your physical side (Halverson 431). Some
transcendentalists say the world has no beginning in time, everything takes
place according to the laws of nature. The same people think there is not
necessarily an absolute Being who causes the world to be (Frost 42).
Transcendentalists think nature is a product of the mind, and without the mind
nature would not exist (Santayana 42). These ideas come from the Romantic
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Two Brands Of Nihilism
.... conventional, without
any justification by rational argument. Furthermore, without a divine authority
prohibiting any immoral conduct, all appeals to morality by authority become
hollow. By the atheists reckoning then, all acts are permissible.
With Nietzsche's appearance on the scene, however, arrives the most potent
arguments denying the necessary link between atheism and nihilism. It will be
demonstrated that Nietzsche, in fact, will argue it is in the appeal to divine
proscriptions that the most vir .....
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