Philosophy Essays

Platos Cave Analysis
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Introduction: Imagine a subterranean cave in which humans are shackled by their necks to a single place. They have been held there all of their lives. Fires placed behind the group by unseen forces have left these ...

Shawshank Redemption | Organizational Behaviour
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Introduction: The movie I have chose in doing this assignment is Shawshank Redemption. This is a movie based on hope, friendship and strength. The Shawshank Redemption stars Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne, he is the ...

Gassendis Objection To Descartes Argument
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Introduction: Gassendis objections to Descartes ontological argument for the existence of God are based, as many philosophical arguments are, on minor details within the Meditations. The objections for our purposes...

Possession Of Knowledge: Ethical Responsibility
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Introduction: What is ethical responsibility? Ethical responsibility means fulfilling obligations in all ethical areas, or as many areas as possible. When an ethical dilemma occurs, involved individuals must choose...

Study Of Knowledge | Empiricists Vs Rationalists
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Introduction: The dispute between empiricism and rationalism begins within epistemology, the study of knowledge. Epistemology attempts to answer the questions: what is knowledge?, what can we know?, and what is th...

Abortion Is Murder: Debate
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Introduction: With so many different complications and views, abortion is more complex than people may think. However, the decision of a persons position on abortion is based on that persons basic beliefs and princ...

Transport In The Future
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Introduction: Imagine that you wake up the morning and drink a cup of coffee and then enter your car and leave them free rein to take you to the headquarters of your business. Or imagine that you go on family leave...

Plato | Introduction and Evaluation
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Introduction: Plato An allegory, by definition, is a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other then the literal. An allegory is referred to as a figure of language but it does not need to be expre...

Communication In Intimate Relationships
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Introduction: What makes relationships successful? What kind of process do we go through to create an intimate relationship? What are some of the problems we encounter during them and how should we go about solving...

The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living | Discuss
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Introduction: “The unexamined life is not worth living” (Socrates). The inquiry performed by those endowed with a rational element, consists of attaining an end towards which this inquiry directs itself...

Categorical imperative described by Immanuel Kant
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Introduction: The Categorical Imperative which was initially described by Immanuel Kant is the theory that a person is to “act only on the maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should ...

Criticisms of the positivism approach
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Introduction: This essay aims to explore and assess the criticisms that have been levelled at the application of ‘positivism’ within human geography. It will become clear that most of these criticisms f...

Are Humans Naturally Violent?
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Introduction: It’s evident that most human beings think that war can never be avoided and for these reason many of the societal ideas have been based on the concept that violence is part of human nature. Huma...

What Is The Gettier Problem?
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Introduction: The Tripartite Theory of Knowledge, a theory which goes back as far as Plato, states that in order for one to possess knowledge, one must have justified true belief. In other words, if you carry a bel...

Bhagwad Gita As Seen By Osho
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Introduction: I have always been intrigued by one question the response to which I was always not able to a find or say this one question always confused me , baffled me or say that this very question always made ...

Utilitarianism: The War On Iraq
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Introduction: Utilitarianism is the concept that the moral worth of an action is determined exclusively by its contribution to overall utility, that is, its contribution to happiness or pleasure as summed among all...

What Is Ethical Hacking?
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Introduction: Nowadays any kind of information for every single person in the world is held in database somewhere in the world. Every company and organization works with, stores and uses personal information of som...

Plato's Practice Of Death
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Introduction: In the Phaedo, Plato argues that a true philosopher practices death as if at every moment life were behind him. To understand what Plato meant by a true philosopher practicing death, it is imperative ...

The Singer Solution To World Poverty
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Introduction: Poverty is the state of people who do not have a certain amount of income to achieve the basic needs. Peoples buying power is not enough to pay their basic need from food. In the article Peter Singer&...

Is Cloning Playing God?
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Introduction: Imagine sitting down, all of the sudden, you look to your left, and what do you see. Yourself, as a seven-year-old child, but wait a minute, you are 30 years of age. This child is genetically identic...

Approaches To Political Science
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Introduction: During the post- World War II period the predominant impetus that gave augmentation to behaviouralism as an approach to political science was the end of colonialism, and the subsequent birth of many n...

Difficulties Of Rene Descartes Cogito
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Introduction: The most important contribution of René Descartes in the history of Philosophy is his cogito. In the same way, however, the cogito has also been the most critical problem of his philosophy. Thi...

Evaluating The Banality Of Evil Thesis
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Introduction: The word ‘evil’ exists in many cultures universally around the world. The word evil was previously, on the whole, limited to religious and secular beliefs. However, although the word exist...

Nozick's Wilt Chamberlain argument
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Introduction: Explain and evaluate Nozick’s Wilt Chamberlain argument. In Robert Nozick’s famed Anarchy,State, and Utopia Nozick uses the example of a basketball player who becomes considerably richer...

Korsgaards Position About Lying To The Murderer
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Introduction: In this paper I will discuss Christine M. Korsgaard’s position about lying to the murderer at the door in response to Immanuel Kant’s view regarding the matter. I will then give two object...