Havrilla Dr. Hogan Exam 2 Essay #4 11/2/2016 Hume David Hume was a Scottish born philosopher and is known for his philosophical skepticism and empiricism. In the late seventeen-thirties (1738-1740)‚ David Hume published a book titled‚ A Treatise of Human Nature‚ which was comprised of three books. The three sections of the A Treatise of Human Nature include an investigation on human understanding‚ a discussion on passions‚ and an explanation of morals. The purpose of this essay is to describe David Hume’s
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PLATO ON TRADITION AND BELIEF. 1.Socrates gets Laches to agree to a new definition of courage by arguing that not all cases of courage are a sort of endurance.He asks Laches if he would consider courage to be noble to which Laches replies he would.Socrates then asks him would he consider foolish endurance to be seen as hurtful‚to which Laches also agrees.With this in mind Laches agrees to a new definition of courage to include only wise endurance. 2/5 2.They conclude that knowledge
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Descartes’ First Meditation attempts to prove that everything can be called into doubt. However‚ his Cogito argument in his Second Meditation is successful in proving that we can know at least one thing for certain. In his First Meditations‚ Descartes begins a quest to establish a firm foundation for philosophy. To do this‚ he must demolish his opinions and start with a clean state. Descartes attempts to undermine the foundation behind all of his beliefs. He believes that if something can be doubted
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Friedrich Nietzsche and Mahatma Gandhi‚ two mammoth political figures of their time‚ attack the current trend of society. Their individual philosophies and concepts suggest a fundamental problem: if civilization is so diseased‚ can we overcome this state of society and the sickness that plagues the minds of the masses in order to advance? Gandhi and Nietzsche attain to answer the same proposition of sickness within civilization‚ and although the topic of unrest among both may be dissimilar‚ they
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Layne Johnson Dr. Scott Austin PHIL 251-502 December 6‚ 2011 Nietzsche and the Ascetic Ideal According to Friedrich Nietzsche in his third essay of “On the Genealogy of Morals” the ascetic ideal is nothing more than a false sense of moral codes and boundaries set to fill what would be an otherwise void part of the human mind. Nietzsche believes that any true philosopher will reject the notion of ascetic ideals as a creation of the misguided masses of society. He believed that to make sense of
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believe another view‚ the government became a part of the situation to maintain a sense of peace thorough the nation. This didn’t sit well with Socrates. He wanted as many people to know about his knowledge as possible because he had found scientific reasoning as to why his way was true‚ rather than simply because government officials say it is. This strikes up multiple cases of irony from Socrates’s turn from natural philosophy to what eventually becomes what we know today as political philosophy. The
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At the start of Descartes fourth meditation‚ there are three certainties that Descartes has so far concluded. The first being that god exists. The second that god is not a deceiver. And third that god created him and is therefore responsible for all of his faculties (which includes his faculty of judgment). The first two convictions seem sound enough to Descartes yet the third convict evokes some conflict within him. Descartes speaks about how‚ if everything within him comes from god‚ and God did
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The Question: State your understanding of the philosophy of F. Nietzsche. What does he mean by saying "God is Dead"? Nietzsche’s philosophy is that of a radical view as it calls for the complete reevaluation of morals and blatantly attacks the Judeo-Christian tradition in modern society. He believed one should dare to become who they are. In order to ascertain one’s full potential as a human being‚ the ethic system of which by society runs‚ must be changed as it only
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Often times lines become blurred regarding inductions and deductive reasoning as they apply to forensic sciences. Inductions are described by Thornton (1997b‚ p. 13) as an inference that is derived by specific observations to a generalization‚ or an assumption that may not always be valid. On the other hand‚ a deductive reasoning is defined as a forensics-evidence-based‚ process-oriented method of investigative reasoning based off of the behavioral patterns of a particular offender (Turvey‚ 1999)
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1. Introduction Moral reasoning is defined as “individual or collective practical reasoning about what‚ morally‚ one ought to do”. The theory introduces two moral principles: consequentialist principle‚ which determines an act’s morality by its consequences‚ and categorical principle‚ which assesses an act by looking at its certain duties and rights despite the outcomes. To some extent‚ these two principles seem to contradict each other‚ which may become obstacles for achieving reasonable actions
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