Philosophy Essays and Term Papers

of the Metaphysic of Morals and his other works promoting Kantian Ethics strongly focus on human rights and just treatment in society's standards. Throughout his arguments, his main contention for this is his categorical imperative, which instructs…

is quite an anonymous, but knowledgeable, quote. Though this may seem a more modern way of viewing life itself, this quote actually resembles that of a much older perspective: that of an existentialist. Existentialism, is, essentially, the philosophy…

entity. The soul has structure and divides into three parts. Plato is the first to give the soul this complexity and does so in his dialoque, Republic. According to Plato, the soul possesses reason, spirit, and appetite. Plato proves that the…

World of Rome" Meridian, 1987 Philosophy, Chapter 7 Pgs. 214-233 While most of the citizens of the Greek and Roman worlds relied heavily on some form of emotional religion, there were a few that sought their personal guidance through philosophy.…

you abide to do something with all your heart and soul. We live in a cynical world where commitment is often times obscured by day to day life. Many believe that our goals are a commitment to ourselves. People make goals for themselves in order…

would like his audience to do exactly this when beginning his Meditations on First Philosophy. Urging the reader to do this, Descartes introduces an argument in "Meditation One: Concerning Those Things That Can Be Called into Doubt" regarding…

a condition of supreme well-being and good spirits. There can be many definitions of the word happiness. It can be applied to many examples. Many people are often in search of happiness.         One meaning can be explained when someone tells…

of Confucius, a Chinese philosopher/teacher. Confucius highly stressed ethics. It is thought the reason for this is because the China of his time was corrupt. Confucius thought the way to live with good ethics was to follow the five virtues: Jen;…

harmony is the greatest good, and that the result of it is moral (rational) behavior. He also believes that if you have a healthy body and soul then you are in psychic harmony with yourself. He says that this is good intrinsically and instrumentally.…

as Free Speech and it's a Good Thing Too," Fish argues that free speech "is not an independent value, but a political prize," and any differences, which the courts have drawn between, protected and unprotected expressions are "malleable." Like…