Philosophy Essay Examples

In order to accurately and relevantly analyze Toozenbach in relation to the job, we must consider him as an individual. Toozenbach, also spelled Tuzenbach, or Nikolai Lvovich, is a baron and lieutenant in the army. His full name, or more accurately, title, is Baron Toozenbach-Krone-Alschauer, a clearly German name that sounds quite grandiose. However, it […]

Early in his philosophy, Wittgenstein upheld the belief that living a factual life was crucial and ethical values were not important. However, this perspective underwent changes as he developed his later philosophy. It is my belief that the approach used by Wittgenstein in his later philosophy could potentially benefit from considering a transcendental phenomenological realm, […]

In the book by the recognised Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba, the main character is an avatar of the Dionysiac nature and practitioner of the Epicurean philosophy of the pursuit of earthly hapiness. The word dionysiac is derived from the name of the ancient Greek god Dionysus, who was the god of wine, fertility and […]

Antonin Artaud’s work never made the theatre till around 1920 and when he did many people disaproved with his work, and found it offensive in comparisson to what theatre had been like before his time. To back to the end of the 18th century would be a sensible place to start as that was a […]

This essay aims to provide an understanding of the controversial subject of abortion and its accompanying debate, where individuals have their own viewpoints. Abortion denotes the untimely extraction of a fetus from a woman’s womb, derived from the Latin word ‘aboriri’ which means ‘failing to be born’. It is worth mentioning that in the United […]

Copleston made it clearer in an argument with Bertrand Russell in 1948. God is not the cause of itself, but it contains its own sufficient reason for existence. When questioned what could be counted as a sufficient reason, Copleston defines it as “an explanation adequate for existence of some particular being. Cause can be a […]

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is about understanding what true reality is, and how it differs from what we perceive as reality. It starts off with describing prisoners, who have been chained since their childhood deep inside a cave; not only can they not move their arms and legs, but their heads are chained in […]

One initial problem with studying the belief in life after death is that there are a vast number of theories stating what they believe ‘life after death’ actually is. Therefore in order to effectively ascertain arguments for and against this idea, it is necessary to deal with each individual theory separately.Plato’s theory of dualism1 argues […]

The design argument or the teleological argument suggests that the universe is created by a designer. It states that the complexity of the order and patterns of the operation of the world could not have been created out of chance or by random; instead it is made by a creator.William Daley is a well known […]

Coherentism proposes an alternative approach to foundationalism. It suggests that if new information is consistent with our existing knowledge, it can be accepted as knowledge in a mutually supportive network. This perspective addresses some of the challenges associated with foundationalism, providing an additional means of justifying our belief systems. Within our belief systems, we maintain […]

Coherentism is all about fitting our beliefs to make a network of them; they are all linked and fit in together. E. g. I receive a postcard but there is nothing on it apart from my address and the postmark. The only person I know who will send me a postcard with nothing on is […]

According to Aristotle, the ultimate aim of natural items such as plants or animals is not a deliberate intent or plan but rather the end result of the standard process of growth and development that a typical specimen of the species experiences. The end goal does not have to align with any particular intention. Aristotle […]

1) Outline the Design Argument for the existence of GodThe Design Argument for the existence of God also called the teleological argument makes the basic assumption that there is order and design in our universe, which everything fits together and all things function to fulfil a specific purpose. The key idea associated with design arguments […]

Utilitarianism is the idea that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its contribution to overall utility: that is, its contribution to happiness or pleasure as summed among all persons. It is thus a form of consequentialism, meaning that the moral worth of an action is determined by its outcome: put simply, […]

The statement “you know that you are reading this book,” has to be based on the premise that we can actually know anything as all. That, in turn, leads to questioning where we get our knowledge from in the first place. Furthermore, even if one was to find an answer, could it be proven sufficiently […]

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 […]