An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Two philosophers that have heavily influenced the world of philosophy as we now know it, René Descartes and John Locke, have not always agreed on the same beliefs. In fact, they almost always argued on what each other felt was true except for the unlikely agreement on a few things. This brings me to one particular argument dealing with the issue on innate ideas. Descartes side of the argument believes that we born with ideas (innate ideas) and Locke believes our ideas come from experience and…

Shall she listen to God or to man? Will she receive what the Spirit says concerning inspiration, or, turning her back upon Him, will she cleave unto man? This is the choice to be made. Sad is it, however, that many do not realize the necessity for making a choice. Having their vision obscured by the dense fog that modern theology…

Define and give the significance of the following Key Terms: The Dominion of New England: The Dominion of New England was a coalition of New England colonies in 1686 created by King James II. It originally consisted of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Connecticut and had its capital in Boston. Later, in 1688, James II added the Jerseys and New York. Individually operated state legislative branches were dissipated, and Sir Edmund Andros took over as the governor of the…

In John Dewey's essay Truth and Consequences, he criticizes and reevaluates the traditionally held belief that a true proposition should contain a reference to that which is true about itself. For Dewey, truth should not make a reference to what is ‘really’ perceived, because that is already implied when speaking about anything. Instead, truth is supposed to be thought of as that which will fulfill the requirements of future problem solving activity. In Section one, I will summarize Dewey’s…

Life is difficult In the essay by Barbara Ehrenreich, titled Nickel and Dimed written in 2001. This article is talks about how Barbara was struggling through her low-income life at the time in Florida. Due to high rent and low income, Barbara experiences shows that most middle-class Americans have not been treated equally when it compares with high-class Americans. Now, she wrote this book because she wants to prove why economic crisis still exist in some parts of America. Barbara…

When most people first hear the name Van Gogh, they think of the Van Gogh portrayed by popular culture – brilliant, tormented, and driven to insanity by his artistic dedication. Yet this portrayal of Van Gogh fails to acknowledge his role as a social critic – a critic considerably influenced by his socioeconomic circumstances. Even modern-day art historians, those people deemed most likely to consider Van Gogh from every possible viewpoint, often reject this facet of the artist. They instead…

Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine both were visionaries in their day, understanding that the world around us was more than just dirt and rock but that there was a divine infinite universe in front of us to explore and all you had to do was look up. While both of these men could be found laying the bricks for the age of enlightenment in the colonies and paving the way for a new country, free of British rule, they were also vastly different in individual temperament. Benjamin Franklin and…

we, as humans, must decide if we are justified to take that life, while in the process inflicting suffering, in order to benefit society as a whole. We must almost play God, in a sense, in deciding which animal lives are expendable and which are valuable enough to allow to remain living. This ethical dilemma almost assigns a value to life. The debate over animal rights asks if it is worth killing innocent animals in order to benefit such items as education, material production or human…

Written in 1754 for an essay contest discussing the origin of inequality, Rousseau made a daring leap into the ongoing eighteenth-century debates about the nature of man. Discarding the biblical explanation, he adamantly decided that in isolation (or in a universe of one man)…

Participation of women in the Olympics has been limited in history due to the creation of sport having arose from a male dominated group. Sport originated from young boys private schools investing the cultural adaptation that women were inferior to men when it came to sport. It wasn’t until the 1900 Paris Games that women were granted the opportunity to participate in the Olympics (Wood, 2010, p.1). Spectators were not long to recognize the achievement of a Dutch women by the name of Fanny…