Many people live their lives effortlessly making decisions everyday‚ major and minor‚ and not thinking about the effect their decisions have‚ or even why they make some of their decisions. Do our decisions really matter or make a difference? In the deterministic way of thought‚ no‚ the decisions one makes on a day to day basis are actually not decided in the present. Events that have happened in the past determine the outcome of every situation in the present. This way of thinking presents itself
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humans‚ how ethics should apply through and historical precedence? Movement from Greece to modernity asking about meta-ethics and naturalists fallacies. Kantian Formalist Virtue Ethics‚ Subjectivity‚ Egoism‚ Utilitarianism‚ Hedonism‚ Epicurus-ism‚ Stoicism ‚ Normative Morals‚ Detailed Morals‚ Relational Ethics‚ Applied Morals‚ Natural Law‚ Philosophy‚ Cultural Criticism‚ Individualize‚ Anarchism‚ Social‚ Mete-Ethics‚ Normative Ethics‚ Descriptive Ethics‚ Applied Ethics
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Anthony Giagiari Mr. Dinely ENG2D1-06 April 26th‚ 2012 Philosophy in Julius Caesar William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a play containing many characters of many different personality types. Brutus and Cassius‚ considerably the two main characters of the play‚ are very different in their personalities‚ as well as the philosophies they claim to follow. These two characters can be shown to practice the philosophies of Stoicism and Epicureanism to an extent‚ and it can be shown that in the end
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Its weird how some people don’t question the things that are obvious to us. The things we see‚ how do we see it? What makes it visible to us? Is it only because we have eyes‚ or is there another factor. The great Aristotle explained it by having something in our eyes that emits “something” to an object and that’s why things are visible to us. Another question we could ask from our daily life is that how come we can hear? What is it that we hear? Why do we hear it and deaf people don’t? How do we
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The Breath of Death “Why should I fear death? If I am‚ death is not. If death is‚ I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?” (Epicurus). Death is an abstract concept that has been pondered towards for millennium. In Shakespeare’s brilliant work Hamlet‚ Shakespeare utilizes the character Hamlet to reflect transitions in life as death enters and absorbs one’s life. For most of the play Hamlet contemplates on the mysteriousness of death and its unknown because it has stayed distant
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Where Happiness Lies "Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don ’t find happiness‚ you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are‚ who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings YOU the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run." -David Leonhardt People can spend their entire lives searching to fill what they feel is that void of happiness. They will get lost in their own sense of time
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Bentham and Mill’s utilitarianism in contrast to Kant’s idea of duty. First of all‚ there are three different types of happiness or pleasure‚ namely; hedonism which focuses on for the sake of pleasure‚ Epicureanism which was brought forward by Epicurus who stated that happiness is freedom from bodily pain and mental distress and lastly‚ utilitarianism which was originated from Bentham and later was explained further by Mill which will be explained further in this essay. Moreover‚ Kant’s idea of
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Satire 10. [Translated by G. G. Ramsay] The Vanity of Human Wishes In all the lands that stretch from Gades to the Ganges and the Morn‚ there are but few who can distinguish true blessings from their opposites‚ putting aside the mists of error. For when does Reason direct our desires or our fears? What project do we form so auspiciously that we do not repent us of our effort and of the granted wish? Whole households have been destroyed by the compliant Gods in answer to the masters’ prayers;
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The study of human history is focused primarily on one aspect‚ the migration of people‚ equipment‚ and their ideas from one location in the world to another. When studying human history we often break it down into smaller and simpler parts such as battles‚ specific locations and trade routes‚ and the expansion or collapse of empires. However‚ by taking a step back to look at the bigger picture in human history we can begin to notice a common trend. Everything we can potentially discuss about our
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Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi Al-Razi was one of the greatest eastern scholars‚ he made a lot of contributions which have a great impact on eastern society and many sciences. He was born in Rayy‚ Iran in the year 865 AD (251 AH)‚ and died there in 925 AD. During his life Razi was physician‚ philosopher‚ and scholar who made fundamental and enduring contributions to the fields of medicine‚ alchemy‚ and philosophy‚ he wrote more than 184 books and articles in various fields of science‚
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