After the meeting with Euthyphro outside of the king's court and listening to the reason why Euthyphro is here, Socrates is not persuaded that Euthyphro's prosecution of his own father for killing is pious or just thing to do. He requests Euthyphro ...
As stated in paragraph 13, Bacon opined that "will and affections" affect matters pertaining to thought. Bacon holds the view that peoples' understanding of what is observed is assessed in accordance with their preferences. Bacon supports this ...
In Republic, Book IV by Plato, Socrates persuades Glaucon that being a just person means having a just character is both profitable and desirable for the individual. He counterbalances just with unjust action stating that that it is more valuable ...
Moral philosophy is a very complex and controversial subject, as the judgment of an action as moral or immoral can vary depending on the focus on separate aspects which are depicted in the theory. At times, our judgment falls to reasoning on what is ...
In his book Meditations on First Philosophy, Rene Descartes states that it is possible to construct an indubitable foundation for all knowledge in the book. This book is organized in the form of meditations that are written as though each meditation ...
Human nature and identity has been a matter of philosophical discussion for centuries. In the course of this discussion a question has arisen about what are the criteria of a person and whether they are related to psychological or physical aspects. ...
Describe and critically analyze Merleau-Ponty's theory of the subject-object dialogue. Is he right to say that this is the process by which meaning emerges? Phenomenology is a part of the philosophical studies, which aims at the investigation of the ...
Introduction Today’s world is fast moving and has so many distractions making most of us to forget easily their true values, they therefore waste time on wrong paths of life that do not lead anywhere and suddenly, they realize that life is ...
The proposition that the measure of beauty is in the mind and not in the object is true since beauty has several perspectives that differ according to different people. For instance, the famous philosophers, Plato and Aristotle identified beauty ...