Essays on Philosophers

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A Report on Jacques Derrida and His Philosophy

2 pages / 820 words

What if everything around you had no essential meaning or root cause? What if every piece of text you have ever read had no structure at all? Well Jacques Derrida invented a theory that proves that our way of thinking is completely wrong. Jacques Derrida...

Jacques Derrida Mind

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Hannah Arendt and Her Political Ideas

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Introduction Hannah Arendt is a unique philosophical intellect of the 20th centenary, and her believes still influences conversations in global politics today. She scripted a collection of books such as, ‘The origin of totalitarianism’ in 1966, ‘The human condition’ in 1958 and ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’...

Hannah Arendt Political Philosophy

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Analysis of Hannah Arendt’s Views on The Cause of Evil

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Is evil the product of a misguided choice or the outcome of lacking moral concept? Hannah Arendt, an author of many texts including Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, was born in Hanover, Germany. She escaped Nazi Germany in 1933 to...

Good and Evil Hannah Arendt Political Philosophy

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Analysis of Hannah Arendt’s Opinion About Collective Dynamics

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On violence by Hannah Arendt is an interesting reflection on History and Politics. In this brief but substantial essay, Hanna Arendt analyzes the historical facts of the sixties including/relating and comparing them within the context of the most important events of the 20th century. The...

Hannah Arendt Human Nature Political Philosophy

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The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt: The Issue of Minorities’ Rights

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Writing after WWII, Hannah Arendt, in her text, The Origins of Totalitarianism, moves from a discussion of the plight (danger) of national ‘minorities’ and the altogether ‘stateless’ in the inter-war years of European history to a fundamental critique of the notion of ‘human rights’. Who...

Hannah Arendt Political Philosophy Totalitarianism

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Carl Jung and Stages of Life

2 pages / 716 words

Carl Gustav Jung is a Swiss psychologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and one of the most significant thinkers of the 20th century. In his life’s work, Jung laid the groundwork for a new understanding of the human being and his psyche, an understanding that extends beyond the...

Carl Jung

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The Main Concepts of Aristotle’s Metaphysics

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Aristotle, also known as “The Philosopher”, is one of the top philosophers, who brought new ideas into philosophy. Contrary to Plato’s beliefs, one idea that he brought in is how there are multiple types of sciences, not just one. However, he also believes that the...

Aristotle Metaphysics

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Analysis of The Main Points in Metaphysics of Aristotle

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Introduction to Aristotle’s Metaphysics Aristotle begins his account in Metaphysics by discussing the various ways and forms through which knowledge is obtained. He posits that the most substantial claim to knowledge arises when one can provide the best account of it. To facilitate this understanding,...

Aristotle Metaphysics

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Descartes’ Epistemology and Its Metaphysical Results

4 pages / 1762 words

About Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, we are faced with an epistemological problem. Epistemology is defined as the theory of knowledge. It is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion. Descartes begins his first meditation on the search for absolute certainty of his...

Epistemology Metaphysics Rene Descartes

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Reconcilable Worldviews of Mahatma Gandhi and Bertrand Russell

3 pages / 1297 words

In the search for personal truth and validation in the confusing world that we live in, humanists alike have paved the way for social movements and forward thinking. Amongst such individuals are Mahatma Gandhi and Bertrand Russell. Although raised with different religious beliefs and living...

Bertrand Russell

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The Standard of Goodness According to Works by Bertrand Russell

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Abstract Russell, a British philosopher and essayist is the founder of modern analytic philosophy. He made contribution in a broad range of subjects. Russell presents the realities of society and Concept of good man and bad man through his essay,’The Harm That Good Men Do’....

Bertrand Russell

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Analysis of David Hume’s, Bertrand Russell’s and Thomas Nagel’s Arguments About One’s Own Experience of Pain

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Much has been written by philosophers over the past few centuries about the mind-body problem, which addresses the issue pertaining to the duality between one’s physical and mental entities. By pushing this problem further, one can explore rather interesting areas of philosophical thought. For example,...

Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Russell’s and Phillip’s Critics on Sense Data

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There are some problems in philosophy; such as an explanation of the physical world on which every philosopher has a different point of view. Bertrand Russell’s “The problems of philosophy” and Phillip’s “What can I know?” represent two different perspectives to consider finding out the...

Bertrand Russell

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A Report on The Book The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russel

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Introduction to Epistemology in “The Problems of Philosophy” In his famous work The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell dives into key questions about truth and knowledge. The book is meant to be an introduction to the complex world of philosophical inquiry, particularly focusing on how...

Bertrand Russell

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Aristotle’s Contribution to Neuroscience Advancements

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The following will analyze Aristotle’s Categories 9a4-9a13 in which Aristotle shares his definitions of habit and disposition. This paper will show how even though Aristotle’s The Categories was written in 350 BCE, his definitions of dispositions and habits are still referenced in science to better...

Aristotle Neuroscience

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Analysis of Stealing in Terms of Kant’s Deontological Ethics

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Kant’s Deontological Ethics focuses morality on objective duties rather than the consequences of actions. One cannot ground morality on emotions since each person has a different reason for feeling certain emotions. For example, if what is moral is determined by happiness, then the thief seeks...

Deontology Immanuel Kant Stealing

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Analysis of Factors Responsible for Faster Social Change than in Previous Centuries

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A good point of departure in exploring the concept of social change is the fact that no human society anywhere has ever been or can be static. It is also true that social change is hard to predict. This is mainly because the factors that...

Karl Marx Social Change

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The Irrationality and Imitation Within and Surrounding Grief: The Views of Socrates and Homer

5 pages / 2053 words

In book X of the Republic, Socrates vehemently denounces grief and mourning. He sets up an analogy between private and public grief that is meant to reveal ideas about reason and appetite, while also exposing grief as detrimental to the curing of suffering. The grief...

Socrates The Republic

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Immanuel Kant’s Possible Views on Nuclear Weapon and Nuclear Deterrence

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In his popular book “Perpetual Peace; A Philosophical Sketch”, Kant, a prominent late Eighteenth century German political philosopher, pencils down the possible ways to attain his conception of perpetual peace. For this purpose, he prescribed in his book, six preliminary articles which described the steps...

Immanuel Kant War and Peace