Dos problemas e filósofos apresentados nesta apostila‚ optamos por realizar uma reflexão conceitual das idéias de Kant e Baumgarten relativas à Estética. Tal o fazemos‚ por considerarmos que neste período‚ se produz os elementos teóricos que vão instituir conceitualmente esta área de conhecimento dentro da esfera filosófica e‚ além disso‚ por esta temática ser um tema candente na Filosofia contemporânea‚ sobretudo em razão das produções de Nietzsche e Kierkegaard. Primeiramente buscaremos conceituar
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directly into this file and then upload when finished. Remember that you need to connect what you read in the book to what you are learning from other course materials to complete you answers. Step I: Basic‚ factual analysis of a reading 1. List three examples of events/methods from Voltaire’s Candide which you believe best illustrate the issues related to the Scientific Revolution and to the Enlightenment. a. The reaction of the Portuguese Inquisitor about the earthquake. b. The lifestyle
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person that would agree with the idea of war having a different set of rules in the sense that war is more instinctive then that of a habit is Immanuel Kant. Kant holds the idea of the categorical imperative. Categorical is the Latin root to mean without exception and imperative means what must be done. This sums up the idea of one’s duty which Kant describes that duty is something one must do without exception. This idea of duty leans towards the idea of instinct because every person in the battle
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The choice of either living a content life with a wife‚ 2.3 children‚ and 1.4 pets or leaving everything behind to take the once in a lifetime opportunity to be with my soul mate is a difficult decision to make. However through Aristotle‚ Kant‚ and Mills I can determine the most ethical decision. I could not make a decision on staying with my current family or leaving for my soul mate based on happiness. Aristotle stated that true happiness cannot be determined by yourself or how you feel. True
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us to determine if something is right and wrong is deontology which is based on the writings of the philosopher Immanuel Kant. Through his ethical framework‚ we will uncover that suicide is a morally wrong action. First‚ I will lay out the foundations of deontology which states that right action is an action that is done from duty and accords with moral and rational law. Kant sees that the categorical imperative is the way to determine if an action is morally right or wrong. First‚ you must take
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The Enlightenment and Romantic periods had different views on nature through writings and paintings; however they also sought to recognize the limits in human knowledge through the study of nature. The Enlightenment was a period where it tried to explain and study the true nature of mankind and how it progressed. Natural history was the science of Earth’s development. G.L Buffon was the foremost practitioner and he was able to produce a multivolume ‘Natural History of the Earth.’ Buffon tried to
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The enlightenment era‚ can be said‚ produced some of the most critical ideas that clearly impacted the development of democracy. This intellectual period that roughly lasted from the 17th to the 18th century is responsible for producing some of the most brilliant political philosophers. Amongst these philosophers and philosophes were political revolutionaries such as Voltaire‚ Jean-Jacques Rousseau‚ Cesare Baccaria‚ Baron de Montesquieu‚ David Hume‚ and John Locke. The ideas they promoted and would
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an intellectual movement that stressed reason‚ liberty and science‚ changed people’s idea about the world called the Enlightenment also known as the Age of reason. The Enlightenment developed in France and later spreads throughout Europe and United States. Enlightenment thinkers found out that natural laws governed the universe and that people could think for themselves. Enlightenment thinkers were basically humanists that supported equality and human self-respect. They wanted evidence and reason before
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The Enlightenment was a time period of demystification and the birth of many new ideas. Thinkers of the Enlightenment such as John Locke‚ Voltaire and Rousseau believed in governments that were based on the interests of the people‚ and not obtaining too much power. Global politics in the 17th and 18th century‚ including France‚ Venezuela and Mexico were impacted greatly by the ideas of the enlightenment. The French Revolution was born from the ideas of the enlightenment‚ including John Locke’s
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Deontological System. Kantian Ethics is formulated by Immanuel Kant in which he discussed that the nature of duty is based on human reason. For him‚ human reason‚ not human nature‚ can determine what is right and wrong. He also stressed that human desires are not the right measurement for ethics. In addition‚ Kantian Ethics is known for its two kinds of command or imperative: the hypothetical and categorical imperative. According to Immanuel Kant‚ hypothetical imperative has conditions and has no value
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