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- 301: The Life And Times Of Karl Mar
- ... however they did not practice Judaism. In 1824 Karl's father adopted protestantism. Marx attended the university of Bonn and later the university at Berlin, where he studied in law, while majoring in history and philosophy. Marx handed in his doctoral thesis of the philosophy of Epicurus, and concluded university in 1841. After his education, Marx associated himself with the "Left Hegelians," along with Bruno Bauer, which were a group who formed atheistic and revolutionary ideas from Hegel's philosophy. In 1842 Marx and Bruno Bauer were asked to contribute to the Rheinische Zeitung, an opposition paper, in Cologne. Marx in October of 1842, became editor-in-chief, and decided to move from Bonn ...
- 302: What is Morality?
- ... to clarify the rules and standards which implicit in our common judgments. It provides nothing more than the clarification of what we already know in a more ethical and reasonable way. The study of moral philosophy is related to the contemporary practice of the behavior for human begins. By a simple definition, morality is the conformity to the conduct of the rules. It answers for what is right or wrong. Besides ... moral action is to perform the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. The history of Utilitarianism Utilitarianism was first introduced by the British theologian William Paley in his Principle of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785) and by the British jurist and philosopher Jeremy Bentham in his Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789). Bentham introduced the utilitarian theory as a foundation of legal and political reforms. He ... way of granting mercy killing for persons suffering from an incurable and painful disease. The purpose for the mercy killing is to end any pain or suffering for the patients. The principle of the moral philosophy has told us that killing people is wrong. Since killing people is consider to be immoral, therefore, euthanasia is against to the moral rule. The Western moralists, from Saint Augustine to the present day, ...
- 303: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... someday achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is impossible because whites have no moral conscience. King basically adopted on an integrationalist philosophy, whereby he felt that blacks and whites should be united and live together in peace. Malcolm X, however, promoted nationalist and separatist doctrines. For most of his life, he believed that only through revolution and ... was rebellious and angry. He blamed the poor social conditions that blacks lived in on the whites. "His past ghetto life prepared him to reject non-violence and integration and to accept a strong separatist philosophy as the basis for black survival," (Internet, Malcolm X anniversary). He even believed at one time that whites were agents of the devil. As a result, "Malcolm X recommended a separatist and nationalist strategy for ... everything that gets in its way," (pg. 255, Malcolm X: The man and his times). In his speech "God’s Judgement of White America", delivered on December 1, 1963, Malcolm X again promoted his separatist philosophy. "America must set aside some separate territory here in the Western Hemisphere where the two races can live apart from each other, since we certainly don’t get along peacefully while we are here ...
- 304: Anselm's Ontological Argument and the Philosophers
- ... can be sure that no such fate will happen to Anselm's Ontological Argument (the name, by the way, coined by Kant). In form, Anselm's arguments are much like the arguments we see in philosophy today. In Cur Deus Homo we read Anselm's conversation with a skeptic. This sort of question-and-answer form of argumentation (dialectic) is very much like the writings of Plato. The skeptic, Boso, question ... attend church smugly because it is illogical not to. Bibliography Anselm. Proslogium, Monologium, Cur Deus Homo. with introduction by Weber, translated by S. N. Deane. Open Court, La Salle, 1948. Copleston, Frederick. A History of Philosophy. Image Books, New York, 1994. Honderich, Ted (editor). The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford University Press, New York, 1995. Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Translated by N. K. Smith. London, 1933 (2nd edition). Kierkegaard, Soren. Philisophical Fragments. Translated by D. F. Swenson. Princeton University Press, 1962. ...
- 305: Anarchy
- ... of any form of political authority. 2. Political disorder and confusion. 3. Absence of any cohering principle, as a common standard or purpose. [Greek anarkhia, without a ruler] (American Heritage Dictionary). Anarchy is a political philosophy shrouded in misconception. This misconception is caused by the diversity of the subject of anarchism itself, which cannot be characterized by simple slogans or television plugs. In theory, anarchy provides the most personal freedom for ... anti-war and free speech movements. Even today, anarchism is flourishing." As well as thriving throughout time, anarchy does promote the most freedom for all aspects of life. To better understand other choices of political philosophy, it is helpful to examine all major points of view. Communism, libertarianism, liberalism and nihilism are often confused with anarchy. But these political philosophies are predominantly too structured for the typical anarchist's viewpoints (Heretics ... 321). Electronic Smogor 4 communications provide a way to transcend national borders and may minimize the importance of cultural barriers such as race and gender as well. In summary, anarchy is a diverse, tightly woven philosophy that has been adopted in one form or another throughout the past two hundred years by a wide range of individuals and groups, many of whom do not realize or do not associate the ...
- 306: Lord Of The Flies By William G
- ... that is perhaps why his novels are concerned almost solely with primitive struggles for survival.... (Karl 119). 3. Golding’s characteristic themes - the origin of evil, guilt and sexuality, the wonders and danger of natural philosophy (Gordon 122). 4. Golding’s hallmark: a polarity expressed in terms of a moral tension (Dick 121). 5. ....a Golding novel is reminiscent of a skeletal framework that is deliberately and at times deceptively simple ... basic struggles that man has. One must not think that Golding did not go unchanged from the war, because analysis of his pre-war poetry shows a much softer, more forgiving Golding. Golding’s basic philosophy can be summed up in a few words, society is evil. All of his books deal with this idea in some way or another. It is very easy to see how this idea is presented ... nature. William Golding the man himself is qualified enough to write about such topics because he was involved heavily in W.W.II. This caused Golding’s views on life to change to his current philosophy “The shape of society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable (Baker 5).” The frame work of a Golding novel is ...
- 307: Capital Punishment: Against
- ... which revolve around revenge and the "frustration and rage of people who see that the government is not coping with violent crime," are not of good will, thereby making capital punishment immoral according to ethical philosophy (Bruck 329). The question of whether executions are a "cruel" form of punishment may no longer be an argument against capital punishment now that it can be done with lethal injections, but it is still ... executions in this country have been of white defendants convicted of killing black victims, while black defendants convicted of raping white women were commonly sentenced to death (Death Penalty Focus). Stephen Nathanson, a professor of philosophy at Northwestern University addresses the problems of discrimination and randomness best by saying, "as long as racial, class, religious, and economic bias continue to be important determinants of who is executed, the death penalty will ... April 15, 1985. Nathanson, Stephen, "What If the Death Penalty Did Save Lives?" An Eye for an Eye? The Morality of Punishing by Death, 1987. Palmer, Donald, Does the Center Hold? An Introduction to Western Philosophy, Mayfield Publishing Company, London, 1996. Van den Haag, Ernest, The Death Penalty Pro and Con: A Debate, 1983.
- 308: The Symposium: A Philosophers Guide to Love
- ... and uncertainty as to who their original mate was. The pursuit of the other half is what Aristophanes designated love. The legend as Aristophanes portrays it is much like that of the modern new age philosophy of the soul mate. Many modern faiths and cultures believe that each person is originally a part of on being that is split in two and that their other half is their one true love ... to be a problem. If the philosophers truly thought that beings were identical in creation then why are the rights of one half greater than those of the other? Eventually Socrates begins to convey his philosophy on the idea of love, yet he goes about it in a different way than his predecessors. In the earlier speeches each of the men had thought of love as a god and gone about ... this statement that I find problem with. In other readings we have heard that one cannot become truly happy through other people or from the acquisition of material possession. If Socrates and Plato followed this philosophy then why does this idea of love hold true. The woman also goes on to insist that the idea of procreation is just another attempt at mortals to come close to being immortal. By ...
- 309: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... Trinity, which elected him to a fellowship in 1667. He received his master's degree in 1668. Newton ignored much of the established curriculum of the university to pursue his own interests: mathematics and natural philosophy. Proceeding entirely on his own, he investigated the latest developments in mathematics and the new natural philosophy that treated nature as a complicated machine. Almost immediately, he made fundamental discoveries that were instrumental in his career in science. The Fluxional Method Newton's first achievement was in mathematics. He generalized the methods ... gravitation, which explains that all bodies in space and on earth are affected by the force called gravity. He published this theory in his book the Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), or Principia, as it is universally known. By common consent the Principia is the greatest scientific book ever written. In the same year, 1687, Newton helped lead Cambridge's resistance to the efforts of ...
- 310: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... Trinity, which elected him to a fellowship in 1667. He received his master's degree in 1668. Newton ignored much of the established curriculum of the university to pursue his own interests: mathematics and natural philosophy. Proceeding entirely on his own, he investigated the latest developments in mathematics and the new natural philosophy that treated nature as a complicated machine. Almost immediately, he made fundamental discoveries that were instrumental in his career in science. The Fluxional Method Newton's first achievement was in mathematics. He generalized the methods ... gravitation, which explains that all bodies in space and on earth are affected by the force called gravity. He published this theory in his book the Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), or Principia, as it is universally known. By common consent the Principia is the greatest scientific book ever written. In the same year, 1687, Newton helped lead Cambridge's resistance to the efforts of ...
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