Metaphysics Essay Examples

Both of these poems are Metaphysical in many ways. The term ‘Metaphysical’ refers to matters that are literally ‘beyond the physical’ – this is things such as God, heaven and hell, the soul and the meaning of life. They looked past visible life to discover the concealed beauty beneath. Much of their work contained an […]

The aim of the teleological argument like so many others is to attempt to prove the existence of God or another ‘Being’ that created the world. This argument is a posteriori meaning that it is based on experience and also inductive meaning that there is no certainty in the outcome. This means that this argument […]

When it comes to writing an essay about Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, there isn’t a perfect opening sentence. Through my research on the play, I’ve gradually realized this. A brief summary may suffice: two vagabonds wait at a tree for Godot, who ultimately never arrives. This premise seems straightforward enough, even to a […]

The core conditions model introduced by Carl Rogers was originally a feat by Rogers to devise an empirical formulation of an approach to therapy that was already successful and widely implemented. Rogers attempted through his model to envelop the core concepts of his unique approach to clients specifying the features of an interpersonal environment facilitating […]

Immanuel Kant was a German Philosopher who was a key figure central to modern philosophy, he argued that mankind’s perceptions, classifications and concepts shape our outlook of the world, and that rationale is the source of morality. In Germany in the late 1700’s there was a newspaper called the ‘Berlinische Monatsschrift’, this newspaper put out […]

Semiotics investigates the process by which signs, including but not limited to words, pictures, gestures, and sounds, acquire and convey meaning (Tomaselli: 1991). The meanings we assign to signs are dependent on the social conventions of our cultural milieu; for instance, mopane worms are perceived as carriers of disease in America, but are considered a […]

It is perhaps customary to start an essay by defining the key terms of the argument. However any attempt to define feudalism is doomed to failure and illustrates the nature of the problem when using the term. Marc Bloch defined it as “a subject peasantry, widespread use of the service tenement instead of salary, supremacy […]

In this essay I shall explore the concepts of a priori knowledge and analytic knowledge. I shall argue that Kant is mistaken when he states that some a priori truths exist which are not analytic and I shall conclude that by the very nature of how ‘a priori’ is defined, all analytic truths are a […]

Logical positivism was a movement that was officially established in the small Vienna Circle in the 1920s. The group of 11 mathematicians, scientists and philosophers met regularly to discuss and campaign for a change in philosophical discourse. Rather than the metaphysical and normative pretensions that epitomised philosophy throughout Europe, the group advocated for a systematic […]

In a time of intellectual curiosity, 19th century philosophy incorporated many Vivid-based ideas, which have since been returned to, and analyzed by, members of the 20th and 21 the century Hindu community. The ascetic teachings expressed in the Pinheads provide the belief that the negation of all internal desires is the only way to achieve […]

Though regarded as sexless, God has traditionally been referred to by the masculine pronoun. Concepts of God in philosophy are entwined with concepts of God in religion. This is most obvious in figures like Augustine and Aquinas, who sought to bring more rigor and consistency to concepts found in religion. Others, like Leibniz and Hegel, […]

Abstract Kant is a philosopher. which dealt with human acknowledgment. He has been considered as an irrationalist. Many philosophers think that he used the irrationalism to warrant the trust in faith and to protect the faith from the scientific discipline. In this paper I shall take a position to the doctrine of Kant on recongition […]

unified text: 1.Pakikisama – It is the act of conforming to the majority’s will in order to get along with everyone and avoid conflicts. 2.Bahala na Attitude – It is the belief that things should be left as they are because nature will take its course. 3.Bayanihan or Team Spirit – This Filipino value promotes […]

In order to clearly reply the first inquiry. it is of import first to reply the inquiry – “what is the psyche for Aristotle” and as such give an history of how he views substance and separability. Aristotle posits in de Anima that the psyche is the substance in the sense which corresponds to the […]

In the following text, when we use the term “evaluation,” we mean practical value judgments regarding the satisfactory or unsatisfactory nature of phenomena under our influence. The question at hand is the freedom of a subject from these types of evaluations, specifically, the cogency and significance of a logical rule. This question is not the […]

Witch doctors, psychics, mediums, spiritualists are but just a few of the many names associated with Shamans. Many of us have heard these names echoed since childhood, but do we really know who these people are? In the United States these people are viewed as outcast; there hasnt been a need for them in a […]

Argument: Premises: 1. God exists, is omnipotent, omniscient, and wholly good 2. The tsunami caused people to suffer 3. An omniscient and omnipotent good being prevents any suffering that it can properly eliminate (that is, eliminate any suffering without eliminating an outweighing good or bringing about a greater evil) that it knows about 4. An […]

Doctrine of creation ‘What do we mean by creation? How helpful are making, emanation and/or artistic work as analogies? Is it a doctrine about the world’s beginnings or origin, or about its present or future existence, or what? Creation is often referred to as a ‘mystery’ and this is due to its perhaps ambiguous nature. […]

In life, too many things are taken for granted. We take for granted the most valuable things in our life; the love from our families and friends, the roof over our heads, and even the air we breathe. Unfortunately, most people dont appreciate what they have until its gone. So many people have become victims […]

Knowledge can be defined as the fact or state of knowing. There are many different aspects of knowledge. Knowledge comes from many different places. There are great numbers of philosophers who have tried to describe where knowledge comes from. Also knowledge can be divided into different parts according to the way we receive knowledge. There […]

Cicero, a man of both the state and philosophical temperament, often experienced clashes between these two aspects. While he gradually embraced stoicism, he did not fully adhere to its beliefs, partially due to the influence of Roman society at the time. The moral values of everyday Rome contradicted some of the early stoic ideals. As […]

The Myth of Total Cinema Andre Bazin in his article, The Myth of Total Cinema, asserts that motivation behind cinema is realism. He explains his theory by examining the technology of cinema. He argues that cinema was not born from the technology advancement but rather from innate desire to reproduce the realism of our world. […]