to shadows in the “Allegory Of The Cave”. It seems in some ways clear that Plato is not‚ a subjective idealist‚ like Berkeley. Plato ’s Allegory of the Cave is sometimes interpreted by non-Platonists as drawing attention to the modern European philosophical problem of knowing external
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Back in the early days of the Transcendentalist l movement‚ a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s. Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ one of the greatest American poet‚ philosopher and essayist. He once wrote‚“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else‚ is the greatest accomplishment.” In other words it means that people are only truly happy when they decide to follow their own path. He believed in searching for truth from within. Emerson had
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There are disagreements over the severity of a crime‚ the mentality of the criminal‚ and the correct penalty that should result from that crime among other things. Kant and the Utilitarian perspective on crime and punishment do not coincide. Both philosophical viewpoints seem convincing in their own right‚ but not without flaws. One is simply the better way to reason through the issue at hand as it relates to society as a whole. Immanuel Kant has a few fundamental ideas about how society should think
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Constructing identity in today ’s media saturated world is not an easy task. For with a simple flip of the television channel or a turn of a magazine page there at our disposal is a vast array of possible identity models. In modern society identity is perpetually unstable it must be chosen‚ created and constructed with reference to unavoidable surrounding media culture. Considering the frameworks surrounding the construction of identity by theorists including Louis Althusser and Anthony Giddens‚
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Philosophical film “A Beautiful Mind” There are many philosophical films currently available to watch. These films involved all kind of issues around us such as social life‚ work‚ health‚ race‚ etc. The most interesting issue in A Beautiful Mind‚ one of the famous philosophical films‚ is the difficulty of the main character to distinguish the difference between reality and imagination. The philosophical argument in the film is very important because it based on the true story that only
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A Philosophical Argument for God’s Sake In this paper I will: (i) state the premises and conclusion of St. Thomas Aquinas’s “Uncaused Cause” argument‚ I will argue that the argument is a deductive argument. Merriam-Webster.com’s definition of cause is: “something or someone that produces an effect‚ result‚ or condition: something or someone that makes something happen or exist”. (www.merriam-webster.com) A deductive argument is an argument in which the premise or premises claim to prove that the
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Antigone v. The Roman Women In the play‚ Antigone and Creon battle a philosophical war dealing with the controversy of the Greek ideals. They both based their actions on their beliefs of what is right and wrong. The whole problem arises when their believes and ideas encountered each other‚ making it contradiction between morals. Antigone’s side of the conflict held a much more heavenly approach‚ as opposed to the mundane road that Creon chose to follow. Antigone feels that Creon is disregarding
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Pancasila. It is the Indonesia’s philosophical foundation. The term of “Pancasila” etymologically is derived from two old Javanese words (originally from Sanskrit): panca meaning five‚ and sila meaning principles. It encompasses five principles considered to be inseparable and interrelated. First is belief in the one and only God. Second is just and civilised humanity. Third is the unity of Indonesia. Fourth is democracy guided by the inner wisdom in the unanimity arising out of deliberations amongst
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social structure of his time. This prominent critic is one of Chaplin most famous work and can be well adapted to current days. Many of the critics presented in Chaplin work can be linked to existentialist themes and in more deep form to Nietzsche philosophical arguments. This paper establish such connection in a macro level‚ taking in account the possible meaning of the entire movie and in a micro level by establishing the connection of existential themes with specific passages of the movie. Nietzsche
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subsequent Warring States Period‚ the three most influential ones were Legalism‚ Taoism‚ and Confucianism. Legalism‚ the political philosophy concerned with the most effective way of governing society‚ is exemplified in the style‚ attitude‚ and philosophical outlook of the passage. Legalists portray humans as inherently evil and inclined toward criminal and selfish behavior. Thus‚ if humans are allowed to engage in their natural proclivities‚ the result will be conflict and social disorder. They must
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