Essays on Philosophers

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Origin of Language by Jean-jeacques Rousseau: a Review

7 pages / 3008 words

Dating back to the time of Plato’s Republic, music was viewed as having a profound ability to instruct. When composed in the appropriate manner, music held an essential, transformative power in the realm of one’s moral education. Through his Essay on the Origin of Language,...

Rousseau

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Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto and The Family Business

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In The Communist Manifesto, the most prominent way that bourgeois capitalism and effects his society is the way that the bourgeois has lost its familial connection quality. Marx states, “The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family...

Communist Manifesto Family Business Karl Marx

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A Comparative Study of Apollo and Ville Valo

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Apollo is the god of many things, mainly music and medicine. He is believed to come from the northern invaders of Greece who viewed him as either the sun god or as the Good Sheppard. Ville Valo is a Finnish musician that has a huge...

Aristotle

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An Argument Against The Standard Interpretation of Descartes' Arguments in The Meditations in Andreea Mihali's Sum Res Volans

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In Sum Res Volans: The Centrality of Willing for Descartes, Andreea Mihali challenges the standard interpretation of Descartes’ work. Many commentators interpret Descartes’ arguments in the Meditations to “mean that the essence of the mind is constituted by thoughts as objects of awareness” (Mihali 149)....

Rene Descartes

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Kant: Enlightenment and The Aesthetics of The Self

1 page / 585 words

Kant believed that for enlightenment to be brought about, the individual would require freedom to think freely for themselves, and the ability to manifest their well-reasoned ideas. A concern arises from this belief; is it always acceptable to allow for people to manifest their reason,...

Enlightenment Immanuel Kant

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A Study of The Inequality in The Modern World

5 pages / 2485 words

Introduction Certainly I’ll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I’ve gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them. – Bill...

Jacques Derrida

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The Meaning of Morality

3 pages / 1447 words

The Concise Oxford Dictionary (p925) describes morality as: ‘1) Principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour; a system of value and moral principles. 2) The extent to which an action is right or wrong’. What is morally right in...

Jacques Derrida

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A Study of The Deconstruction Literary Object Used in Robert Frost's Poem for Once, Then, Something,

3 pages / 1293 words

Deconstruction is a technique of literary criticism which seeks to analyze a work as thoroughly as possible as it pertains to other works. It provides a way of playing with language and meaning that teases and delights (Dobie, 2002, p. 138). In other words, according...

Jacques Derrida

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A Comparative Analysis of John Stewart Mills and Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarian Philosophy and

3 pages / 1325 words

Eat Dessert First In this paper, I will be addressing the distinct ideas of Jeremy Bentham and John Stewart Mills. While not related by blood, this duo occupies the positions of father (Bentham) and “prodigal son” (Mills) of Utilitarianism. Where they tend to differ is...

Jeremy Bentham

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Human Right Considerations in The Utilitarian Philosophies by John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham'

2 pages / 1078 words

While utilitarianism may seem like an appealing model to ensure the well-being of society, a closer inspection of the utilitarian arguments provided by the utilitarianism pioneer, Jeremy Bentham, reveals that in practice, the theory would destroy individual rights and liberty. In fact, the tendency of...

Jeremy Bentham

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The Beneficial Characteristics of Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarianism

2 pages / 775 words

Utilitarianism was developed by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) as he was interested in social reform because of how the industrial revolution left few people rich and many people poor and susceptible to disease from the poor living conditions. Bentham’s theory took the name ‘Act’ Utilitarianism an...

Jeremy Bentham

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Reviewing John Dewey's Analysis on The Pros and Cons of Each Learning Environment as Depicted in The Book Experience and Education

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Analysis of John Dewey When faced with two radically different types of schooling it is hard to say which will succeed and which will fail. In the first two chapters of Experience and Education, John Dewey analyzes the benefits and the disadvantages of each schooling...

John Dewey

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Bertrand Russell and John Dewey's Conceptions of Logic

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Introduction: Defining Logic What is logic? The generally accepted definition, or the “popular conception,” states that logic is simply a set of rules for good, proper, or correct reasoning (the precise wording changes depending on who you’re talking to, but you get the idea). On...

John Dewey

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Explaining The Three Classical Approaches of Work: Marx, Durkheim, and Max Weber

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“Sociologists of work have stated that work shapes not only the individuals’ social position and status within society but the character of society itself.” (Stewart and Zaaiman; 2015). By using the understanding of the previously mentioned quote this essay will fully elaborate on the three...

Emile Durkheim Karl Marx Max Weber

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Discussing Gandhi's Views on Rational Human Beings

4 pages / 1723 words

History has showed human being as different colors of skin with different background stories. Every ethnic group had to deal some sort of bigotry views toward them or their life style. What most don’t do is realize that all of us are one as a...

Immanuel Kant Mahatma Gandhi

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Comparison of Marx's Communist Manifesto and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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Introduction Karl Marx’s “Manifesto of the Communist Party” and “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte” comprise an interesting binary of literary binaries. The first work presents ideas and abstracted elaborations of history, while the latter offers Marx’s lesser-known journey through “revolutionary” France adjacent to the...

Karl Marx Manifesto of The Communist Party

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Comparing Martin Heidegger and Soren Kierkegaard's Philosophies

3 pages / 1497 words

Introduction Individuality refers tothe existential philosophy and ideology that views and emphasizes the moral worth of the individual by promoting the importance of an individual’s goals and desires. Individuality (also sometimes called ‘Individualism’) valuesone’s independence and self-reliance. It advocates that the interests of an individual...

Martin Heidegger

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Martin Heidegger's Role and Civilization in The Western World

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Martin Heidegger was one of the twentieth centurys most distinguished philosophers, crucial in defining the cultural and philosophical position inhabited by Western civilisation, whose influence has spread far throughout many academic fields. His 1927 book Being and Time, his first major publication, broke the trend...

Martin Heidegger

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A Comparative Analysis of The Theme of Death in Martin Heidegger and Leo Tolstoy

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Comparison of Tolstoy and Heidegger on the Theme of Death Prominent advocates of post humanism make the case that an extreme increase in the human lifespan would be inherently good. The question of extended lifespan has become more debatable since the fields of medicine and...

Martin Heidegger