American philosophy

In today’s society, the American education system is not at its peak; it’s corrupt and polluted with twisted appeals towards money and business. This makes a real education hard to earn, but easy to be handed over via a sheet of paper. Unfortunately, there’s not much individuals can do except raise awareness and hope for a fix. One individual, Mark Edmundson, a professor at the University of Virginia, discusses these ideas in a book titled Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education. One of…

The main goal in a human’s life is to seek understanding, whether it be something large scale like to understanding the universe or something smaller scale like figuring out the latest Iphone. Francis Bacon wrote Novum Organism to create a better philosophical understanding of prejudices humans have created when it comes to acquiring and determining truth. He categorized four types of prejudices and named them all different idols: The Idol of the Tribe, the Idol of the Cave, the Idol of the…

American Philosopher Thomas Nagel, has spent time examining a forthcoming with a theory about moral luck. His main attention consists of studying and evaluating philosophy of mind, ethics and political philosophy. Nagel identifies four ways in which luck centers a part in moral duty. He raises the bar with the question of whether luck can affect judgement of morality. I argue that Nagel's theory of Moral Luck is substantial and one that has all the basic groundings for Me to believe its precise.…

pleased about this because I, according to her “need to get a good job that will provide for my wife as well as my mother.” I can honestly say that if I were to tell her that I was changing my major to philosophy she would likely faint, due to the reason that the odds of getting a job for philosophy…

truth (Van Wyhe, 1999). Combe saw phrenology as an “egotistically satisfying means of affronting the conventional” (Cooter, 1984). He dedicated the rest of his life to promoting phrenology, and wrote The Constitution of Man, a book on natural philosophy (Jenkins, 2015). The book sold an astonishing 350,000 copies between 1828 and 1900; it was one of the best-selling books of the 19th century, and it created a larger impact on society than Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species (Van Wyhe, 1999).…

beyond the expectations of some college professors. In the class, we have learned about the great American poets Henry David…

American Historian and social critic Morris Berman expresses “An idea is something that you have. An ideology is something that has you.” (Morris Berman). The quote by Mr. Berman supports the contrary side of ideology, that it does not always necessarily…

The topic I would like to research for my final paper is the philosophical term “relativism”. As defined by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, relativism is “the view that truth and falsity, right and wrong, standards of reasoning, and procedures of justification are products of differing conventions and frameworks of assessment and that their authority is confined to the context giving rise to them.” This is a fancy way of saying “Truth is relative”. 
I believe I need to justify why I…

When describing his “first principle” of existentialism, Sartre describes that man is nothing beyond what he chooses to make of himself. This can easily be connected to Emerson’s theories of individualism and nonconformity. Emerson stresses that one should follow their free will and make choices based on what their own minds tell them to do, not on what society expects them to do. Sartre’s emphasis on free will and subjectivity align with Emerson’s theories that one should act int terms of what…

The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was a philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in the 18th century in Europe that affected European politics, philosophy, science and communications. The Enlightenment caused to outcome of numerous wars, revolutions, inventions, and scientific laws because many topics and ideas were questioned. The beginning of The Enlightenment came when Isaac Newton and John Locke published their essays “Principia Mathematica”, and “Essay…