ESSAY SAMPLES, Essays on Philosophy
Sample Essay
Words 767
Although Charles Taylor is arguing about the moral state of modernity, he is, in fact, borrowing a page from the ancients when he argues that we have lost all sense of an authentic self, a self that endures from one moment to the next. Taylor asks us what it means to be a moral person. But he also reminds us that the attempt to define the limits of human morality is a complex and ambiguous task. In arguing for the importance of the authentic self, he is also arguing against moral nihilism and for a position of moral realism that lies very much in the tradition of Plato. (more…)
ESSAY SAMPLES, Essays on Philosophy
Sample Essay
Words 1,727
Introduction
Much discussion has focused on the question: What is the nature of science? Most descriptions of science found in education, psychology, and philosophy materialize from the theoretical and procedural outlook that highlight norms, principles, and broad trends. Some groups are motivated to distinguish science from other activities while some groups work in the opposite course and blur the lines between science and others ways of knowing. (more…)
ESSAY SAMPLES, Essays on Philosophy
Sample Essay
Words 1,696
The Quine-Duhem thesis is confirmed by the history of science. All great theories were originally part of total systems of belief that were falsified. All theories are ‘born falsified’. Copernicus’ theory by the failure of the planets to change in apparent size as expected, Newton’s by deviations in the moon’s orbit from the predicted path, Einstein’s special relativity theory by the experiments of Kaufmann on electrons. (more…)
ESSAY SAMPLES, Essays on Philosophy
Sample Essay
Words 743
When we ask ourselves what is knowledge, we are effectively asking what is our relationship with the world. As Solomon argues in Chapter 3, the desire to know and the desire to discover are essentially active, even aggressive actions taken on the part of consciousness to acquire pieces or aspects of the world. When we seek knowledge, we seek to take into our minds (and so to take into our bodies physically) something that exists in the world. We seek through knowledge to dismantle the world and so to come to possess it. (more…)
ESSAY SAMPLES, Essays on Philosophy
Sample Essay
Words 1,655
After asking several people about knowledge and learning it became quite clear that out of five people (all with a minimum of an undergraduate degree) four believed that it was essential to have a strong foundation in terms of knowledge and learning for anyone to survive both professionally and personally. This belief was quite strong and if one considers lack of knowledge and what it leads to. Without knowledge, a person is considered to be ignorant who does not have the discerning power to know or understand what is happening in the world around us. For example knowledge about the environment—as opposed to those who prefer to remain ignorant— those who have knowledge about mankind’s contribution to global warming would possibly act more responsibly than those totally devoid of the impact of environmental destruction and issues like global warming. (more…)
ESSAY SAMPLES, Essays on Philosophy
Sample Paper
Words 569
Introduction
When something bad happens to a person who is good then people tend to wonder why a person like that has to go through pain and suffering and also why he or she has to pay a price in terms of life and happiness and also how that one person’s death or suffering effects his or her loved ones. Harold Kushner, who is a Jewish Rabbi, discusses the random deaths and suffering that generally happen to people, like accidents or terminal diseases like cancer or Multiple Sclerosis. According to him, people try to rationalize the incidents to satisfy their own need to give an answer as to why a person died prematurely or why her children had to suffer because of that. This paper argues that Kushner’s reasoning is invalid. (more…)
