Philosophy Essays and Term Papers

of America that everyone is born equal and free. This believe is based on the words written in the Declaration of Independence that states "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their…

(384 BC -322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, logician, and scientist. Along with his teacher Plato (author of The Republic), Aristotle is generally regarded as one of the most influential ancient thinkers in a number of philosophical fields, including…

evil. For instance, there are two Psychological theories for what makes people behave as they do and they are nature (biological factors) versus nurture (environmental factors). The nature theory would suggest that certain people would gravitate towards…

of the individual? In the present societies, people are concerned with individual liberty and all sorts of freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of free association and so on. John Stuart Mill, an 19th century European philosopher…

people in today's society let social alienation take over and ruin their lives. Social alienation is the state of being emotionally and socially isolated and dysfunctional with your surroundings. Kafka shows the effects of social alienation through…

Consenting Adults Is Always Permissible In the chapter on Sex, Love, and Marriage of "The Moral Life" we are posed with a very interesting article about sexual ethics. The essay is called Sexual Intercourse Between Consenting Adults Is Always Permissibl…

timely history, language has been, is and will continue to be the one attribute that sets us apart from all other intelligence. The ability to communicate clearly with each other is so important and beneficial, yet vastly overlooked and grossly misused.…

things, to different people. I believe, that truth is what people accept as being correct when it can not be proven factually. "It is a relationship that holds that holds between a proposition and the corresponding fact"(Truth[Inernet Encyclopedia…

on optimism. The time when Candide was written, the intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment was spreading ideas about the equality and basic rights of man and the importance of reason and scientific objectivity. Through Candide, Voltaire…

a discussion concerning the Soul, since the Soul is the only thing that can comprehend such Perfect forms. So here I will attempt to link between both, as has been attempted by Socrates. Socrates believes that by dying and facing death without…