Essays on Philosophers

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The Role of Justice in Aristotle's Work

5 pages / 2326 words

Consider the following list: justice, citizenship, law, happiness (or another goal of human existence). Which of these four is the most important foundation for a political existence, a civilized life? Defend your position by a close analysis of Herodotus and Aristotle. One potential answer is...

Aristotle Justice

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A Review of Immanuel Kant's Philosophy on Lying

4 pages / 1944 words

Lying in engrained into the world’s culture. It has become almost a fundamental in every society and is present nearly everywhere worldwide. But, paradoxically, it is condemned as well. Every major religion, legal statute, and even communal norm advises against telling falsehoods. Philosophers as far...

Immanuel Kant Lying

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Socrates' Idea of The Soul in The Platonic Dialogue

1 page / 497 words

The Platonic Dialogue is written by Plato at the scene of Socrates prison cell and death bed. The government of the time and place of ancient Athens did not want to hear Socrates ideas and did not want to give him freedom of speech. (South...

Plato Socrates

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Death Penalty: Viewpoint of Immanuel Kant

4 pages / 1679 words

The dilemma of whether or not the Death Penalty is ethical is major problem facing society today. The death penalty is given to those who commit crimes deemed by society and government as deserving the infliction of death with crimes such as murder earning this...

Death Penalty Immanuel Kant Utilitarianism

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Karl Marx and Labor

2 pages / 727 words

Karl Marx is known not only as a philosopher but as a revolutionary whose works inspired the foundation of many communist regimes in the twentieth century. Marx has had a significant influence on the creation of the modern world. Trained as a philosopher, Marx turned...

Karl Marx

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A Discussion of Power & Discipline in Michel Foucault's "Panopticism"

4 pages / 2008 words

In his essay Panopticism, Michel Foucault discusses power and discipline, the manipulation there of, and their effect on society over time. He also discusses Jeremy Benthams Panopticon and other disciplinary models. However, after reading Panopticism, the question that baffles everyone is: What is panopticism anyway?...

Discipline Michel Foucault

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"I, Lucy Snowe:" Identity as Performance in Villette

4 pages / 1907 words

Following a foray into third-person omniscience in her second novel, Shirley, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette returns to the first-person narration for which Jane Eyre remains famous. Unlike that novel’s immediately vivid and feisty eponymous narrator, however, Villette’s Lucy Snowe begins and ends the novel a shadowy,...

John Locke Literature Review Personal Identity

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Human Inequality and Rousseau’s Social Contract Solution

3 pages / 1156 words

Introduction In his discourse on inequality among men, Rousseau argued that, contrary to intuition, “savage” man living in a totally pre-social wilderness acted with more empathy and kindness towards fellow human beings than even reasoned philosophers of the modern era. Rousseau considered pity to be...

Rousseau Social Contract Theory

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Locke and Rousseau

2 pages / 1096 words

Students and scholars alike are often deceived by the association between Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau as founders of the social contract. Grouping these authors together often causes people to forget the essential variations presented by each man. The issue of liberty, for example, takes on...

John Locke Rousseau

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Existential Models of Love in a Doll’s House and The Seducer’s Diary

5 pages / 2052 words

According to Soren Kierkegaard, there are three categorizations of people based on their motive and actions: the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious. In The Seducer’s Diary, Kierkegaard presents the character of Johannes as a typical aesthete who centers his life on the single-minded pursuit...

A Doll’s House Kierkegaard

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The Use of The Fantasy Genre in Behn’s The Rover and More’s Utopia

7 pages / 3222 words

Sir Thomas More’s Utopia and Aphra Behn’s The Rover are two vastly different works of literature that focus on different matters: More’s work is a political document, while Behn’s can be categorized as more of a social one. While the two works in themselves are...

Fantasy Thomas More Utopia

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Isolation and The Sublime in Rousseau and Wordsworth

5 pages / 2081 words

In their article entitled “Me,” Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royale assert that “Literature, like art more generally, has always been concerned with aspects of what can be called the… ‘not me’ or other,” (Bennett 129-130). Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his Confessions and William Wordsworth in his...

Romanticism Rousseau

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"The Current State of John Locke’s Theory on Knowledge Acquisition"

8 pages / 3586 words

“Our knowledge in all these enquiries reaches very little farther than our experience” . Locke asserts the principle that true knowledge is learned. As humans, our knowledge about the world around us and the subjects within it come from a study of our surroundings. Locke’s...

John Locke TOK (Theory of Knowledge)

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Locke, Blake, and Wordsworth: Understanding Experience

3 pages / 1560 words

William Blake, in his work There Is No Natural Religion, and William Wordsworth, in his poem 1799 Prelude, challenge John Locke’s understanding of the nature of the self by offering alternative theories as to the ways in which we as humans perceive and interpret our...

John Locke William Blake

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Locke’s Philosophy on The Concepts of ‘substance’, ‘nominal Essence’ and ‘real Essence’

5 pages / 2050 words

Within his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke picks up where his predecessors in epistemological theorizing left off and proceeds to shift the study towards a more empiricist approach. Amongst the complexities of his theory, the notions of ‘substance’, ‘nominal essence’ and ‘real essence’ are fundamental...

John Locke

396

Exile and The Kingdom in Camus' The Plague

2 pages / 984 words

Amid the feverish horror of rampant sickness and death, The Plague is a parable of human remoteness and the struggle to share existence. In studying the relationships which Camus sets forth, the relationship between man and lover, mother and son, healer and diseased, it can...

Albert Camus

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The Conflict Between Duty and Heroism in The Plague

4 pages / 1807 words

In The Plague itself, Albert Camus uses the concept of a plague to allegorically represent the wartime occupation of France during World War II and symbolize the absurdity of nature. The coastal town of Oran, located in Northern Africa, is burdened by this unstoppable pestilence...

Albert Camus Heroism

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Battle Against Crisis at The Conclusion of The Plague

2 pages / 810 words

The last two paragraphs of Albert Camus’ novel The Plague emphasize his belief that even during a crisis, humans must always fight against death, even if that battle will be a constant struggle without victory. This essay explores the nuances of this belief as presented...

Albert Camus

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Ideological Tenacity in The Plague by Albert Camus

4 pages / 1623 words

The Plague is an exploration of caricatures and how they respond in desperate situations. Albert Camus does this by putting multiple characters in the same situation, the controlled variable, but changing the philosophies each represent, the manipulated variable. This experiment judges the philosophical tenacity of...

Albert Camus