American philosophy

Will Durant, an American writer, historian, and philosopher, once said, “Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.” Ayn Rand uses science and reasoning as the basis for her own belief system that she created called Objectivism; she uses her philosophy to create works of literature such as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead that have long stood the test of time. In The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand uses pivotal points throughout the novel to illustrate Objectivism. The first major theme in…

Hegel’s philosophy of history incorporates his reasoning of how world history exists within the realm of the Spirit. He explores the actions of men and women, and concludes that they are driven by the Spirit. “Hence it is of interest, in the course of history, to learn to know spiritual nature in its existence, that is, the point where Spirit and Nature unite, namely, human nature” (Hartman). Hegel goes on to explain the purpose of human activity by using great men in world history and what…

Daniel Park Philosophy 231 5/11/14 Final Essay How did the development of capitalism and disciplinary power change society? What particular effects have they had on American culture? To what extent does panopticism contribute to racism and sexism? In this paper I will be focusing on Foucault’s reading Panopticism. In the article he states “experience has taught me that the history of various forms of rationality is sometimes more effective in unsettling our certitudes and dogmatism than is…

Lucian of Samosata is well known to be the Supreme Ancient Greek Satirist and one of the most famous satirists in European history. He was born at Samosata (Samsat), a small town in the Adyman Province of Turkey on the Euphrates during the Ancient Roman Era. When Lucian was 14 years of age, he began working on his uncle’s statue shop as an apprentice sculptor. When he was on his early apprenticeship he accidentally broke a marble by striking it too hard with his chisel and his uncle gave him…

follow the leader. This man led a group that practiced transcendentalism which entailed a literary movement that emphasized living a simple life and to celebrate truth found of nature and in self emotion and imagination. Ralph put an american spin on this philosophy he said, “Every person is capable of discovering this higher truth on his or her own, through intuition.” One of his famous quotes states, “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” And…

sacred/profane, poetry/prose, sovereignty/servility, individual/community meditates upon the ontological problem of an ineluctable closure which always colours his performance. The laughter of VidûSaka contemplates an undoing of the tenets of metaphysical philosophy, subjecting familiar concepts to “inner ruination,” exposing them to their own base(less)ness, and encoding a non-teleological process of “backwardation” by referring the known to the unknown. Such laughter entails specific…

Socrates’ Nightmare Ignorance has been viewed as the enemy of wisdom and society frowns upon when they (who’s they? People?) simply “don’t know”. In Socrates’ “Apology” recorded by Plato, Socrates shows the audience and the jury that ignorance is not an enemy of wisdom, but it only becomes an enemy if they are not aware of what they do not know. Socrates makes the stunting--(stunning?) remark that “a good man cannot be harm in life or death,” and that killing him will do more harm. He…

need to know what the Enlightenment is. The Enlightenment is the period in the history of western thought and culture. Which stretch roughly from the mid decades of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth century. In which European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically trying to change the course of the long eighteenth century. Which was part of a movement referred as the Age of Reason or simply the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment thinkers in Britain, France and…

underlines individual rights and justice, accentuates social associations and community, and importance of religious principles and spirituality in moral reasoning (Matsumoto &Juang, 2013). The ethics methodology is an effort to go beyond Western philosophies of principles to incorporate others, in the same way, which contain and constrain people’s views, they are the spaces people develop inside, creating and resisting artistically in communicating on morality (Matsumoto &Juang,…

INTRODUCTION The term Ethics is also known as moral philosophy is the branch of philosophy that includes systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. The meaning of ethical goes beyond doing no harm, representing an approach which strives to take an active role in poverty reduction, sustainable livelihood creation, minimizing and counteracting environmental concerns. Ethics also has something to do with what your feelings tell you is right or wrong. Ethics…