Although Nietzsche isn’t responsible for creating modernism‚ his philosophies were representative of the concerns and uncertainly of the modernist artists. Nietzsche and the modernists shared a dark outlook on society‚ one that he had called in his works "sick" and weak due to the constraints put upon them by the Christian church‚ and traditional values that had gone unquestioned for too long. To truly realize oneself‚ you must break free‚ denounce this imposed morality and search deep inside to
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Descartes’ Discourse on the Method (IV) None of the proposed philosophical theories is exact‚ not even a combination of two or more theories (Sayre‚ 2011). However‚ Descartes has unique way of metaphysical argument concerning existence of God. Descartes’ Discourse on the Method (Part IV) ends surprisingly with a claim of God’s existence‚ which can be deduced from the interrelationship between mind‚ soul and our existence. Descartes began the fourth section by discussing about himself. The reading
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Descartes Divisibility Rene Descartes believes that the mind and body is different things and that the body is dividable but the mind is not dividable. I’m not sure what I believe‚ but I think I believe at least for now that the mind and body is two different things. I will explore why Descartes thinks you can divide a body and why he thinks a mind is not dividable. As well as what Descartes response should be to Armstrong’s criticism. Was Descartes right or not? I think this is all up to the
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Many Philosophers made a difference in society but Plato is perhaps recognized as the most famous. His writings have had a profound effect on people‚ politics‚ and the philosophy throughout the centuries. He was a public figure and he made major contributions to society. Plato helped to lay the philosophical foundations of modern culture through his ideas and writings. One of the most philosophical thinkers of Western civilization‚ Plato is the only author from ancient Greek times whose writings
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Chapter 1 Platos Picture Show The Cave image is significant: link between philosophy and the cinema. Like Platos cave the cinema is dark where we are transfixed by mere images that are removed from reality. Watch images that are projected onto a screen. Images are copies of the real things outside the cinema. Highly realistic images vs the cave shadows. We are prisoners as we are prevented from grasping the true order of things by the limits of everyday experience‚ the limits of out ordinary conception
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Whereas with Descartes I first provided a brief review of his philosophy (particularly the cogito)‚ then explored secondary sources that posit Ignatian influence‚ I will here both briefly review Lonergan’s philosophy (particularly the “self-affirmation of the knower” ) and suggest traces of Ignatian influence. My rationale for focusing on the self-affirmation of the knower is that it contains the most traces of Ignatian influence‚ and it overlaps with Descartes’s cogito‚ thus allowing readers of
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the greatest philosophers ever. Each man was very respected while they were living but when you have hundreds or thousands of people still talking about you after your death there is something very special to say about that. Socrates and Rene Descartes spent their life looking for the truth. They looked for the perfect answer to every question because both of them wanted the answers no one could have an answer too. Although these men were alive at very different times‚ they had the same ideas
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College Algebra September 28‚ 2013 Essay René Descartes – Discourse on Method “How can I know what is true?“ - this is the main question that René Decartes discusses in Discourse on Method. He talks about the desire he always had to distinguish the true from the false in order to see clearly in his actions. Apart from this‚ he points out several principles that he established in order to confirm his knowledge. To begin with‚ René Descartes central objective is to reach certainty and in this
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Plato and Education by Sultan Muhammad Plato was the earliest most important Greek Philosopher and educational thinker. Plato thinks education as a key for a society and he stress on education‚ for this purpose he want to go to the extreme level even removing children from their mothers and rise them by the state‚ he want to identify the skills of the children and give them proper education for that particular skill which they have so they could be become a suitable member of the society and fulfil
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Term paper Plato: Symposium Love or greek Eros‚ Philia was in the ancient Greece often theme to talk about between philosophers. Same as it is very spoken theme now so as it was a lot of years ago. This theme is very difficult to explain. Every one has different interpretation of it and think that it is the right one. Every one of us has its own definition of who is loved one and who is lover and how they should behave to each other. Love in according to the ancient Greeks has two different
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