Philosophy Essays

It is hard to believe the sheer number of technological advances as the human race has made within the past few decades. However, like any type of advancement, the price of this technological advancement has been an explosion of comfort and consumption oriented industries; not the least of which is that of “fast food”.

shores. Since then, tobacco smoking has remained a big issue all over the world as one rarely finds a house not afflicted by smoking in the modern times (McVeigh and Wolfer, 2004). There has been a growing concern regarding the addictive nature of smoking prompting some people to argue that smoking should be prohibited in public places.

According to the paper a major reason for the controversy surrounding this topic is lack of clarity and agreement on definitive parameters, due to assorted political agenda on all sides. Parameters are roughly distributed around the following categories: desegregation, multiculturalism, and cultural relativism/social justice. Diversity education requires more than the presence of assorted skin color and assorted ethnic identity, Social class, religion, parenting styles, and family composition, for example, do not always follow color lines.

This essay discusses determinism, compatibilism, and libertarianism. Discussion whether human action is pre-determined or is as a result of free will started ancient time and until today no concrete solution has been obtained. Free will, choice, liberty, and determination are terms that seem similar yet different in philosophical meaning.

Zero Dark Thirty Film: An Analysis. Cinema, since the time of its initiation, has been inspired from the contemporary lifestyle. During the war stricken world, Hollywood never stepped aside to depict the gruesome and horrified war-time situations across the world, particularly in America.

The poets unified the efforts of the African Americans in demanding for equal rights in the society. Harlem Renaissance Poets Introduction Harlem Renaissance started after mass migration of African Americans from the South states to Harlem (Reid, 2001). The Renaissance started in 1920s and entailed new cultural identity awareness and emergency of Black identity (Reid, 2001).

This paper describes three individual stereotypes and their effects on others. I have had a number of stereotypes and these have negative consequences on others. First, I believe that all fat people are selfish. This has been attributed to the fat that fat individuals love food and therefore will strive to get heavy chunks of meals no matter what.

The paper answers the problem section and explores responses to Mackie’s claim in the argument from evil. The paper concludes by giving a personal opinion on Mackie’s position regarding the coexistence between God and evil. The problem of evil is the greatest intellectual impediment to the belief in the existence of a supreme being, God. 

This paper explores the ontological perspectives of Kant and Descartes. Kant’s own ontological argument is both congruent with ancient teachings and also sets the stage so beautifully for modern physics. Descartes drew a distinction between the existence argument for God and the existence argument for objects, and distinguished between ontological necessity and logical necessity.

There is also a need for a means of resolving truths whenever declarations are made, worth in the case of assessments and correctness in the case of actions. Thomas Pierce is one person who deserves to be credited for pragmatism. In his essay, “How to make our ideas clear,” Pierce brings out one of the earliest but the best formulations.

Set in Italy in the aftermath of World War II, the film provides penetrating insight into the everyday lives of the masses at the time. In order to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the film and the themes it experiments with, we must first understand the purpose and concept behind neo-realist cinema.

This has been received with mixed reaction by people and many have moral inhibitions towards this progress. This may be because of religious biasness or simply the notion that it is wrong to take over natures work. This paper seeks to understand the moral theories that help to explain how an act is defined as right or wrong.

Morality outlines that which the society has generally accepted and consequently perceives it to be right. Definition of morality varies across social groups, and what is perceived to be right in one society may be wrong to another. In other words, the morals of one society may constitute immorality to another.

Isaac Asimov explored the idea within his novel I, Robot in which the concept of sentience was examined against a backdrop of slavery and tyranny in the relationship between the creator and the created. In exploring the idea of creating artificial intelligence, the object of creation becomes a focus of the philosophy of what it means to have independent thought.

The author states that although there are no exact records of the births and deaths of ancient personalities, yet Aristotle’s notes transferred to his sculpture demonstrate that he was born in 384 B.C. in Stagira. Aristotle’s biographical records also declare Aristotle as the member of an educated Macedonia family.

A Critique on What Determines Humanity and Right to Life Introduction The author of this article supports abortion and bases the argument on the characterization of a person as human or not on the moral sense. I disagree with the author’s perspective due to the inconsistent and biased way the article accords the traits that dictate if an entity is human on the moral sense.

Interestingly of all, good-looking persons, in particular, beautiful young women who have a considerable advantage in society normally perceive their sexual object position as emancipating. Usually, these attractive girls/women falsely think that they are in control if a guy is gazing at them and have control over them.   

By change, Pieper means that man has excelled in servile arts which is good because it has helped the society develop technologically. However, this advancement in servile arts has occurred on the compromise of sustenance or advancement of the liberal arts, which is the reason why man today has forgotten the real meaning of leisure and lacks spirituality.

According to ancient philosophy, Epicurus was an ancient philosopher that lived between two hundred and seventy one and three hundred and forty one B.C. He founded his school of philosophy in Athens where he spent most of his life. Epicurus was a philosopher who related the aspect of pleasure with good and the aspect of bad with pain concerning living. This concept became Hedonism, a Greek word meaning pleasure.

What does it mean to act morally? Piaget’s, 1975, and Haidt’s, 1978, theories are based on psychology and analytical reasoning. These theories provide the scientific background required for analyzing the moral issues. The current study proposes an integrated approach for evaluating the moral issues in contemporary societies.

Behavior is the action or reaction of a person in response to external or internal stimulations (cause). E.g. manners, anger, love etc. Behavior refers particularly to the way a person behaves in response to others.

The Inside Job The Inside Job is an American documentary directed by Charles Ferguson and produced by Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs. The documentary runs for 108 minutes and was released in 2010. Sony Pictures Classics was the company responsible for its distribution.

It had been stated that “the human function is the activity of the soul that expresses or requires reason”. Although Aristotle had based his argument presenting eight arguments for the human function, the arguments faced several criticisms, as many of his arguments had raised questions on the minds of the critics.

It is essential to state that the feminist movements’ main objectives are about understanding the nature of gender inequality by evaluating women’s roles in society and lived experience which in result has developed theories in order to respond to issues such as the social construction of sex and gender.

The origin of man still remains a phenomenon as scientists and religious concepts seem to differ in belief and explanations. The two conflicting parties disagree in almost every aspect thus posing the question that cannot be explained without choosing a side to believe.

Each virtue is a state that naturally seeks its own means, which is relative in its nature. The virtuous habit of any action is an intermediate state between opposed vices of deficiency and excess. In application of this theory of virtue, Aristotle asserts that flexibility is paramount as friendliness is far from a deficiency than its excesses. This is because few human beings are inclined naturally to undervalue pleasure.

It would be a surprising fact to explain that the real happiness in this world only comes from the right knowledge of the world and the self. All human beings have the desire for knowledge but if real knowledge is not connected with outside world.

It is a non-commercial advertisement, in the terms that important information is provided to the public on water, as a good available to all people. There is no aim to promote a particular product/ service. In the above advertisement it is explained that bottled water is not different than the tap water – in fact bottled water can be worse than tap water.

Hence the theory is connected with care and healing of a patient. The seven components of the analysis include history, meaning, use, logical adequacy, generalizability, parsimony and testability. The attempt is to get a clear concept of the theory and its application in the relevant field.

This whole concept is described as ‘Cartesian Dualism’.when any attempt is being made to understand nature and events.Another major influence on positivism was the Englishman John Locke who in 1690,as quoted by Johnson and Duberley put forward the argument that :- Human beliefs about the external world only became valid when they have survived the test of experience

Extinction is a characteristic of classical conditioning in which the association between the stimulus and learned response is weakened every time the stimulus (triangle) is presented without the associated unconditioned stimulus (loud noise). However, the persistence of learned fear makes it unlikely that it will dissipate over time due to the self-strengthening mechanism described above. 

Hume gets so skeptical when he argues out that no attestation exists in support of origin and effect interactions within the universe. He points out that through observing people’s habits one infers an affiliation between two dissimilar events. He, therefore, adds that it very difficult to prove that one event caused the other.

More people are able to live lives of ease and comfort than ever before. Even in the developing world, many enjoy electricity in their homes. This simple convenience is more than the most powerful king had two hundred years ago. We are surely living in a golden age of comfort and convenience.

Apparently atheism looks a bit more religious term than political, though it is very close to social, political and spiritual life of the individuals which announces indifference and apathy towards all religions by declaring them as the root-cause of dividing humans in separate groups.

For instance, if we separate the roundness of a basketball from other properties such as the weight and color, and consider the roundness as a different entity, then we would be thinking of the roundness form of the ball (Pojman 187). According to Plato, this property exists separately from the basketball, in an entirely different existence mode that the basketball.

What do you think of these arguments? What are your own conclusions?  Jean Searle believes that consciousness is a biological phenomenon, just like digestion and growth. As such, the brain causes unified conscious experiences through the synchronized neuron firings located in its thalamocortical system in a general range of 40 Hz.

Involuntary foreclosure is immoral since the borrower defaults rather than informs the lender of their intention to forego the payments. It is necessary, therefore, that the two parties understand their stands and ensure that each party is in a position to meet the agreement terms, and if not, should inform the other in advance.

This essay discusses that Cobb’s team is not made to appear in good light with regards to their job which is why there are severe dangers to their profession. But with permission, accessing of thoughts is used by psychologists for therapeutic purposes in order to unburden their patient’s subconscious and give them better internal peace. 

in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1988. Pausch was an assistant and associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. He achieved a childhood dream of working at Walt Disney when he completed a sabbatical at Walt Disney Imagineering.

Books have been the way through which the history of the human race has been transmitted from one age group to another. In addition, they have been through which official records have been kept, and without them, all the great civilizations of the past would not have been able to blossom and flourish as they did.

This paper presents a discussion of the two sides of the debate whilst bringing into conclusion the final choice. Various steps of persuasion have been employed as well as questions in order to aid in the analysis. Should teens be given freedom to get involved in crimes?

Ancient Chinese Contributions Ancient Chinese have invented a number of things that we have been using in our everyday life. From our kitchen down to our toiletries, printing, and even farming needs, we can found a variety of ancient Chinese contributions.

It is essential to state that the use of torture in order to extract vital information to be able to save the lives of others, specifically through interrogational torture, makes for subjective perception of what is right and what is wrong when the good of the sum is at the mercy of a single person.

Individual explanations to the question of sameness are given by stating that a person is born with a different personality. By this, it merely means that one has different choices, DNA, soul, and physical features. In just a single sentence, all different definitions become clear. However, there are a number of theories that have been proposed to find out the claim against the definitions.

The actions taken if Bin Laden is still the active head of Al Qaeda and seeking to dispatch further terrorists for destruction would require specific actions. This would be based first on the ideologies of morality and what the responses would be in terms of deontological and utilitarian theories.

This is a very old dilemma, dating back to ancient times, in which people struggle to work out what is real and what is artificial or imagined in human experience. The article is very persuasive in pointing out the timelessness of mankind’s most basic intellectual and spiritual problems.

Also, one cannot diminish the fact that America was founded upon the idea of a “melting pot.” Even prominent figures such as Albert Einstein, called racism America's "worst disease.” Prejudice has been the norm and the dream of “free spirit” of liberty has been obliterated.  The country has shed blooding innocent civilians to fight for few basic rights that are God-given.

Death distances humans from life, is what death is thought of today. Death that is the strongest proof of humans being mortals is denied on its face value by the modern age people. People try to escape death and defeat its existence to live a fearless life that maximizes their pleasure for eternity.

The human condition could be improved if everyone regarded technology the same way the Amish do. Each time they encounter a new item, be it a computer or a doorbell, they collectively consider it. Will it inspire greed? Can something else be substituted or adapted to fulfill the need this new item does? In this way, the Amish avoid technology.

The novel described the impact the arrival of the colonialists had on the African culture, religion, and way of life. This is told through the experiences of the village warrior, Okonkwo. The novel aims to explain the West African Ibo traditions as they were before the coming of the Europeans. The novel makes use of simple language to portray its message.