Philosophical logic

Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason played a significant role in the world of philosophy. Some people would argue that Kant was a philosophical genius, but others would argue that he failed to lay a proper foundation of philosophy. Several German philosophers responded to his work and some even devoted their writings strictly to offering a response to the Critique. Even though these philosophers agreed on a few things regarding philosophy, they did not agree on everything. Johann Gottlieb…

Plato's Allegory of the Cave. What I intend to talk about is Allegory of the cave, and what is the meaning around the theory. Human perception, to get real or true knowledge, we must achieve this through philosophical reasoning. Because knowledge gained by your senses is not real knowledge. And in the allegory of the cave, what’s the difference between sensory knowledge and finding the truth philosophically. And we start with the prisoners that are bounded in the cave. They cannot move, look to…

teach it in schools?” It is through his logic and reasoning that he answers, “…history hold the potential, only partly realized, of humanizing us in ways offered by few other areas in the school curriculum…” and that “each generation must ask itself anew why studying the past is important, and remind itself why history can bring us together rather than – as we have most recently seen – tear us apart.” Each author shows in his own way how he has used his logic and reasoning in creating his…

In this essay, I will be presenting the philosophical views of the ancient philosopher, Heraclitus. I will begin with his explanation of Logos and how it applies to philosophical reasoning. I will then explain why the Doctrine of Universal Flux and the Doctrine of the Unity of Opposites play a major role in Heraclitus’ views. Lastly, I will describe how fire, the soul, and God play into the conception of the world as he knew it. In conclusion, I will put together the previous stated ideas to…

groundwork for many of his ideological successors to proving reason to be the ultimate goal of all philosophy - a way to explain the unknown world and utilize knowledge as a means to quantify and qualify existence. Reason, no doubt, is critical to philosophical thought; however, it’s reached a point where the questions reason poses overpower intuitive and emotional philosophizing that favors a deeper understanding of oneself, one’s desires, and one’s relationship…

Socrates explains that logic will help Kreeft decide his own thoughts. After questioning Protagoras, Kreeft came to the conclusion that to have subjective truth there has to be objective truth. Socrates helps Kreeft understand the flaw in Protagoras’ philosophy by pointing out…

of Madhyamaka in philosophical terms. His analysis in philosophy conveys his main views that all things are empty (śūnya) or devoid intrinsic nature (svabhāva). Nāgārjuna’s point in his writings is to prove that there is more to the primary Buddhist idea that “there is no separately existing, enduring self, and that the person is a conceptual construction. (Katsura and Siderits 1)” Nāgārjuna’s initiative is, therefore, to defend to defend the assertion and provide a philosophical defense to the…

Aristotle, author of the Nicomachean Ethics and a plethora of other philosophical and scientific works, is widely considered to be the forefather of modern logical techniques (Smith 1). As a result of his logical and scientific prowess his philosophical works often take on a logical form; as this paper will show, Aristotle uses the format of a formal inductive logic proof in Book III, Section 10 of Nicomachean Ethics to conclude, with varying levels of success, that humans who are excessively…

elucidate why things are the way they are. Simple answers to questions deemed as dogmatic no longer satisfied or fed their growing curiosities. Subsequent to Western philosophy, Eastern philosophy brought a whole new spectrum of thought to the philosophical world, opening new doors and presenting new insights. Philosophy was created under the basis of understanding the way things work;…

the story of a man living an absurd life as L'Étranger (The Stranger). In the same year he released Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), a literary essay on the Absurd. He also wrote a play about Caligula, a Roman Emperor, pursuing an absurd logic. The play was not performed until 1945. The turning point in Camus's attitude to the Absurd occurs in a collection of four letters to an anonymous German friend, written between July 1943 and July 1944. The first was published in the Revue Libre…