Should We Strive To be Moral Saints? In the article‚ “Moral Saint’s” written by Susan Wolfe she states that the moral saint is‚ “One whose every action is as morally good as possible‚ a person‚ that is‚ who is as morally worthy as can be.” I believe that for humans striving to be a moral saint is in a sense admirable‚ but should not be viewed as a realistic goal‚ in the sense that if not attained‚ one is deemed immoral or a failure. In class we had discussed Susan’s essay and talked about her
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both philosophical beliefs of rationalism and empiricism‚ and why both “experience and reason” are important for “…constructing our knowledge of the world” (Chaffee‚ 6.5‚ Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)). Kant wanted to bring together both the different thought schools of rationalism and empiricism because he believed people could not have one without the other; we can’t have reason without experience and vice versa. Kant wanted to accomplish this because he was “…concerned with constructing a metaphysical
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Hicks 1 August 16‚ 2012 Can we decrease homelessness? The essay “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift is a brutal satire in which he suggests that the poor families should kill their young children and eat them in order to eliminate the growing number of starving citizens. At this time there was extreme poverty and a wide gap between the poor and the rich‚ the tenements and the landlords. Throughout the essay Swift uses satire and irony as a way to attack the indifference between classes
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Lanz Romulo N. Deiparine ENGLCOM A56 24-02-12 Compare and Contrast Essay on Spirit as the Philosophical State of Mind (Hegel’s Spirit/Mind and Philosophies VS. Kant’s Reason/Soul and Philosophies) I. Introduction II. Argument 1: Divisions and Facilities A.) Divisions of Spirit B.) Faculties of Soul III. Argument 2: Idealism A.) Hegelian Absolute Idealism B.) Kantian Transcendental Idealism IV. Argument three: The Dialectic A.) Hegelian Theory of Dialectics
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sleep is lost.2 Diseases like body lice and trenches foot Structure of speech Way he delivers the speech and its impact In my essay I will be analysing the speech‚ “Yes we can” by Barrack Obama. The speech is to persuade the people of America that their quality of life can be improved. Barrack Obama portrays this by using various persuasive techniques to interest his audience and his famous quote‚ “Yes we can” Obama uses illusion in his speech by referring to “Anne Nixon Cooper who is a
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philosophers for centuries and many theories have been presented to answer the question of whether morals exist. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)‚ the great German philosopher is one who has contributed profoundly to the world of philosophy and especially in regards to his thought on the subject of morality. Kant disagreed with Hume that morality is objective and not subjective. Kant wanted to propose a pure moral philosophy‚ one of absolute necessity and independent of all human feelings‚ because if it not
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Philosophy Kant & Foucault Both Kant and Foucault present a question of what is enlightenment? According to Immanuel Kant enlightenment was man’s freedom from his “self-incurred immaturity”. Kant believes that all that is needed to reach enlightenment is freedom. Enlightenment could not be achieved by any one person‚ we have to do so as a community. Kant said that we should have the freedom to make public use of our reason in all situations. He also believed that revolution is a great way to remove
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Which of our faculties do you think is more reliable - reason or perception? Give reasons. There are four ways of knowing. Reason is the way we obtain knowledge by means of our justifications and perception is the way we obtain knowledge by means of our experiences. People take different views on which one of our faculties is more reliable between reason and perception. As far as I am concerned‚ I would like to prefer reason tend to be more trustworthy. Two thirds of what we see is behind
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it’s difficult to define “ success” because it has many different meanings for differrent people. It also depends on what people achieve in their life. These who are dissagree with idea people who earn lots of money are sucessful say that sucessful can be promotion in work or when they are voted for a important position in companies. In addition‚ student who are studying in colleges or universities consider graduating with high score as the greatest sucess in their life at that time. Those who
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for various reasons. Three writers that agree are Stephanie Ericsson author of “The ways we Lie”‚ Richard Gunderman author of “is lying bad for us?”‚ and Angela Haupts author of “How lying affects your health”. These three writers give great insight on how these lies can affect ones mental health‚ as well as their psychological health and also how you can improve from those negative symptoms from lying. There are many types of lies of which are terrible to tell due to the damage they can do psychologically
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