Essays on Philosophers

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Prerogative Power: John Locke’s Dangerous Yet Obligatory Concession

3 pages / 1525 words

John Locke’s theory of the social contract seems, at first glance, to envision the growth of freedom and the concomitant recession of authority. Considered this way, John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government presents a clear contrast, manifesting individual freedom as the dominant political value to...

John Locke

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Descartes’ Proof for The Existence of God and Its Importance

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Introduction Descartes’ Proof for The Existence of God and Its Importance Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay The Quest for Certain Knowledge In Meditations on First Philosophy,...

Rene Descartes

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An Ontological Oversight: Descartes’ First Argument for The Existence of God

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Over the course of his Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes suspends belief in all material and metaphysical substance before rebuilding from the foundational element of the thinker’s existence, eventually concluding that God exists alongside material things and that the soul and body are distinct. However,...

Rene Descartes

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Hume: Criticism of Descartes

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David Hume, a Scottish philosopher and historian, thrived during the Enlightenment era. In this segment of history, which is also known as the Age of Reason, European scholars attempted to find the root of knowledge, often by working through one of two prevalent schools of...

Rene Descartes

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Mind Or Matter: a Critique of Descartes’s Philosophy

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In the Second Meditation of The Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes addresses the question of identity: “I am, I exist… But this ‘I’ that must exist––I still don’t properly understand what it is.” (Descartes 4) The only circumstance helping establish identity is that Descartes thinks––in...

Rene Descartes

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The Conception of God in Descartes and Leibniz

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Ren? Descartes and Gottfried Leibniz both espouse belief in a God that is infinitely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable and infinitely benevolent. Nonetheless, Descartes and Leibniz differently structure the hierarchy of those three defining traits as they determine God’s actions. Descartes’ God is a Voluntarist, meaning that...

Rene Descartes

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Descartes’ Aims in The Meditations

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In the meditations, Descartes aims to provide a sound basis for science, and to vindicate rationalism by proving that true source of scientific knowledge lies in the mind and not the senses. In order to prove that the mind should be the true source of...

Rene Descartes

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The Separation of Mind and Body

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Since the publication of The Discourse on the Method, Renes Descartes appears to have become the poster boy for the position of mind/body dualism. Throughout the Discourse and his later works, Descartes postulates several arguments for the absolute distinction and, thus, separateness of the mind...

Rene Descartes

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The Role of Senses to Rene Descartes

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In Rene Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, he argues that the senses do not accurately help us understand the world. Descartes writes that he has begun to doubt all of his ideas. He decides that all those ideas come from the senses, which are not...

Rene Descartes

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Allegory of The Cave, Descartes’ Meditations, and The Truman Show

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In his Allegory of the Cave, Plato asks us to consider that the world we are living is the equivalent of a cave; in order for us to enter into this “sensible realm” of truth and knowledge we must actively pursue these values. In his...

Allegory of The Cave Rene Descartes The Truman Show

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Thomas More's Utopia and Modern Socio-political Conditions of Subject Formation

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Thomas More’s Utopia involves circumlocutory ways of distanciating the author’s self from Hythlodaeus’s delineation of the exemplary city. More wanted not only to obfuscate his agency as the author, but also lend a unique credibility to the conceptual hypothesis that he sought to fabricate. By...

Thomas More Utopia

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Right Action and Eternal Truth

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Kierkegaard

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Loving Reflections: The Effects of Mirroring in Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Plato’s Phaedrus

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Though they were written centuries apart and in completely different societal conditions, Plato’s Phaedrus and several of William Shakespeare’s sonnets share distinct similarities. The more obvious, surface correlation is that they each describes a relationship (sexual or otherwise, depending on one’s reading of Shakespeare) between...

Plato William Shakespeare

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A Combined Analysis of Abelard’s Accounts of Sin and Atonement

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Throughout his tumultuous career, Peter Abelard faced a series of vehement backlashes against his theological work as well as the manner in which he conducted his personal life; indeed, his affair and secret marriage to Heloise famously culminated in a physical castration, and his conflicts...

Peter Abelard

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Plato’s Ideal Society in Oryx and Crake

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Stories are an important part of society, an element that provides humanity with a way to connect, separate, cry, laugh, be happy or be sad. In fact, life is nothing but a story. Human history is a story. The universe is just a massive collection...

Novel Oryx and Crake Plato

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Freud’s and Nietzsche’s Views on Human Morality

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Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud present profound critiques of human morality that challenge prevailing notions of virtue and ethics. Their perspectives depart from the conventional belief that morality is an innate aspect of human nature. Instead, they argue that morality arises in response to the...

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Analysis of Albert Camus' Thesis on Religion and Faith Through Literature

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Albert Camus One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich The Myth of Sisyphus

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On The Proper Uses and Improper Abuses of History for The Existing Individual

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Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life reads as a polemic against German historicism, the prevailing attitude of his time with respect to the value of history. Originally published as the second of four Untimely Meditations, this work offers a cultural...

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Reactive Nietzsche: Contradictions in The Genealogy of Morals

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In his Genealogy of Morals Nietzsche censures the members of the Judeo-Christian tradition for their “impotence.” As a result of their impotence the descendents of this tradition (slaves, as I will call them to maintain some modicum of political correctness), have developed a hatred “to...

Friedrich Nietzsche