Philosophy Essays

Evaluation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Prompts 3: The Ethics of Ambiguity In Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity, Beauvoir discussed with several philosophical concepts, which are freedom, human’s choices, respon...

Reversal of Terms: The Phenomenological Impact of Levinas
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:  A stated purpose of Levinas for his book Totality and Infinity (henceforth “TI”) was to establish ethics as first philosophy. However, the goal appears moot as Levinas, as with many ter...

Aristotle's Arguements of Materialists
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Aristotle, an Ancient Greek philosopher, had a different view of what constitutes the nature of a thing than the materialist philosophers at his time. Aristotle argues against these philosophers ...

Is the Polity at Fault When a Citizen Becomes a Criminal?
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: The polity is at fault when a citizen becomes a criminal, and this shown in two ways: the first is when its education system fails to educate its citizens in the best way possible and when it bec...

Philosophical Debates on the Existance of God
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Does God exist? Theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas was at the fore in addressing this question to conciliate the relationship between faith and reason. He set out five proofs of the existe...

Historical Developments of Philosophy
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: The Search for knowledge During the 1600s, European science and philosophy had been very much under minded and prevented from growing due to mainly religious obsessions, particularly Cat...

Applications of Thought Experiments
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Thought experiments have a long, complex history, dating back to ancient Greek and Roman empires. Even in ancient times thought experiments were a necessary part of Philosophy- due in part to sub...

Is Quality of Knowledge Best Measured by Acceptance?
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: “The quality of knowledge is best measured by how many people accept it.” Discuss this claim with reference to two areas of knowledge. Through knowledge, we acquire power and awarene...

Free Speech Arguments Against Pornography
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Though it may be the unorthodox view, freedom of speech, is a right that protects a person’s ability to spread knowledge and feel empowered and to be in circumstances that encourage you to be h...

Berlin’s Account of Negative Liberty
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: In Two Concepts of Liberty, Berlin sets about establishing a clear concept of liberty. He begins by articulating what he perceives to be the fundamental difference between the way in which people...

The Ethical Dilemma of Forced Chemotherapy on a Teen
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Introduction   Article Summary What Are the Key Points to the Article? The article is about Cassandra, a 17-year-old teenager from Connecticut. In 2015, s...

Application of Ethical Theories to Leadership
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Ethical Leadership Introduction     We live in a world where there is a great expectation on organisations to model ethical leadership. Businesses ha...

Analysis of Plotinus’ Notion of Being
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: To what extent, if any, can Plotinus’s notion of being be understood as a trinity?     INTRODUCTION I intend to explore the individual components o...

Evaluation of Ethical Theories for Lying
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Why Lie? We are presented with a scenario, Kelly whose father is dying, has built up a business that has proven to be successful. He wishes to pass down the business into the hands of hi...

Which Ethical Theory is Most Commonly Used in Modern Business?
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:  This Essay has been written with the task of answering the following question “Which ethical theory do you think is most commonly used in modern business”? It will offer a balanced...

What Are the Limits of Freedom of Speech?
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: What are the limits of freedom of speech? It is a pressing question at a moment when conspiracy theories help to fuel fascist politics around the world.[1] Shouldn’t liberal democracy promote a...

Evaluation of the Perceptual Model of Emotion
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: People often describe recalcitrant emotions as ‘irrational’. Is Bennett Helm right to think that this undermines the perceptual model of emotion?   The conclusion is th...

John Locke: The Better Account of the Origins of Ideas
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: John Locke has a better account of the origins of ideas that we as human beings experience on a daily basis. Locke altercation theory believes that the mixture of our ideas comes certainly from o...

Philosophical Theories for Making Good Decisions
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: The Good Life  December 2018. The weather outside is frightful. It’s snowing and sleeting as you slowly creep along the abandoned streets in your luxury vehicle. Off in your perip...

What Should the Aims of the Governent Be? Ethical Arguments
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: “Should the aim of government be to maximize the ‘greatest happiness of the greatest number?” Jeremy Bentham, an English philosopher in the 17th century, first introduced the phras...

Evil Amongst Social Contract Theory
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:  Throughout and currently within our world history, many have suffered through traumatic events, such as experiencing the horrors of war or battling a mental or physical illness, these event...

Aesthetic and Ethical Demands of German Memory
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: ‘Acts of memory in contemporary German fiction and visual art must seek to balance ethical and aesthetic demands.’ Discuss with reference to Die Ausgewanderten and ...

Biography of John Dewey and Impact of Theories
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: The Intellectual of the 20th Century The Industrial Revolution John Dewey was an American educator, social reformer, and philosopher that lived from the years 1859 to 1953 (Goui...

Can I Recognise the Authority of the State While Remaining Autonomous?
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Reconciling the issue of individual autonomy and state authority is perhaps the fundamental task of political philosophy. The concept of moral autonomy was first explored by Immanuel Kant in the ...

Hobhouse's Theories on the Relationship between the Individual and Society
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Hobhouse’s ‘The heart of liberalism’ from ‘Liberalism’, explores the relationship of the individual and society and how the two affect each other. Hobhouse does through his ideas of the...