Essays on Philosophers

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Proving Socrates' Innocence Through His Appeal of Ignorance

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The Innocence of Socrates At the age of seventy, Socrates is ordered to the court of law to defend himself and his conduct for two primary reasons: being an atheist (creating false gods) and corrupting the youth. Socrates must defend himself from the lying accusations...

Socrates

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Plato and Rene Descartes' Philosophical Inspirations Used by The Wachowskis in The Matrix Movie

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Introduction According to Critical Thinking and Ethics, very few people qualify as critical thinkers. Critical thinkers can rationally think about what to do or what to believe. Having an open mind is crucial in achieving this because it gives a person the ability to look...

Plato Rene Descartes The Matrix

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A Look at The Effects of Unrestricted Authority as Described in The Book, The Ring of Gyges

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The idea of unlimited power can set you apart from the rest of world, and change who you are and the person you want to become. Glaucon’s point when relaying the idea of the ring of Gyges plays a huge role. Glaucon explains that having...

Plato

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A Look at The Dualism Concept Between The Body and Soul as Depicted in Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

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Body and Soul Rene Descartes presents in his Meditations on First Philosophy the idea of dualism, the belief that the body and the soul exist separately from each other. Physical human bodies are composed of cells, tissue, blood, organs, skin, a brain and the like....

Rene Descartes Soul

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The Interrelation Between The Form Theory by Plato and The Immortal Soul Concept

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The Theory of Forms and the Immortal Soul The idea of the immortality of the soul in relation to Plato’s theory of forms is akin to the idea of a base and a column. Plato builds upon the theory of forms and the idea of...

Plato Soul

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Analysis of Plato's Idea of Education

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The whole range of the educational system would be in part physical, in part intellectual, and in part moral. If a man cannot withstand moral temptation, then he might sacrifice the interest of the society in order to satisfy his own interests. The process of...

Knowledge Philosophy of Education Plato

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The Judgement by Thamus

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You will find in Plato’s Phaedrus a story about Thamus, the king of a great city of Upper Egypt. For people such as ourselves, who are inclined (in Thoreau’s phrase) to be tools of our tools, few legends are more instructive than his. The story,...

Plato Wisdom

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Kant Project

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Introduction to Kant’s Project Kant’s project consists in making explicit the limits of human knowledge in general, and this is made explicit in the Transcendental Dialectic section of the Critique of Pure Reason in particular. To make sense of this, we must first consider his...

Immanuel Kant

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Similar and Different Views of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

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Thomas Hobbes was an English Enlightenment philosopher who was considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. He is best known for his book Leviathan which he wrote in 1651. John Locke was another Enlightenment thinker who was thought the be the...

John Locke Thomas Hobbes

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Karl Marx’s Concept of Marxism in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto” informed the world about the political and economic conflict of the proletariat against the bourgeois and by extension, the aristocracy. Marx disputes that the proletariat should possess the means of production and that united, they are able to overthrow both...

Frankenstein Karl Marx Mary Shelley

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The Connection Between Courage and Justice Based on Aristotle's Literature

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Courage and justice have been two highly discussed values throughout the semester, and in this essay I will seek to connect the two together as well as relating the ideas in accordance with Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, The Illiad, and The Epic of Gilgamesh. According to...

Aristotle Courage Iliad Nicomachean Ethics

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John Locke’s and Rene Descartes Opinion on Human Conceptions and Knowledge

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Introduction How can we know if we are a brain in a vat? Can we be sure that we are not the playthings of evil demons? These questions have been discussed by many philosophers in the past, and still, we do not have proof that...

John Locke Rene Descartes

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Analysis of Philosophical Opinions on Law: Hobbes Vs. and Locke

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Introduction Throughout history, perhaps the most widely talked about philosophical pair has been that of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Due to their stark philosophical viewpoints, these men have been used as discussion points throughout classrooms to implement discussions on a variety of topics. Hobbes...

John Locke Thomas Hobbes

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Understanding The Impact of The Catholic Church on Politics in The Prince

4 pages / 1853 words

The Prince by Machiavelli is one of the most influential treatises in human history, conceived by Italian political theorist and diplomat, Niccolo Machiavelli. The Prince is often regarded as one of the first true examples of modern philosophy, most notably, political philosophy, and Machiavelli addressed...

Catholic Church Machiavelli The Prince

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Idealism Like a Philosophical System

1 page / 485 words

Idealism is philosophical system. In philosophy, idealism is a long-established tradition. The roots of idealism are embedded deep down in history of philosophy, stretched from beginning and extended to present. Idealism can be seen as a system within the field of metaphysics. One might ask...

Philosophy of Life Plato

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"The Myth of The Cave" by Plato

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“The Myth of the Cave” by Plato , depicts a very important message. This book was written over 2500 years ago in the year 400 B.C. The excerpt is a conversation that Socrate speaks with Glaucon. Socrates tells Glaucon the people in an underground cave...

Plato

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Marxist Theory of Social Classes: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat

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According to Marx and Engels, “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles”. The oppressor and oppressed standing in constant opposition to one another, in an uninterrupted fight, one that each time ended either in a revolution of society at...

Karl Marx Marxism Social Class

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The Concept of Aristotle's Function Argument

1 page / 420 words

In Aristotle book, Nicomachean Ethics Book 1, he makes the argument that there is the good and the ‘well’. To explain his claim he gives us an example, “the function of lyre-player is to play the lyre, and that of a good lyre-player is to...

Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

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Justification of Socrates’ Punishment in The Apology

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Was Socrates’ Punishment Just? In The Apology, Socrates is put on trial for supposedly corrupting the youth of Athens and for not believing in the gods. The charges were brought against Socrates because by Meletus. While on trial, Socrates defends himself very well against the...

Socrates The Apology