Analytic philosophy

Metaethics. “A branch of analytic philosophy that explores the status, foundations, and scope of moral values, properties, and words” (DeLapp). Metaethics focuses on what morality is rather than what is moral. Four popular metaethical theories are Emotivism, Realism, Relativism, and Skepticism. This paper seeks to answer the question as to which metaethical theory is most plausible, which I argue is Skepticism. Emotivism: Emotivism stems from logical positivism. A thesis that the meaning of a…

Richard Rorty, an American philosopher of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century who explored expertise in philosophy and comparative literature into a perspective called “The New Pragmatism” or “neopragmatism.” Rejecting the Platonist tradition at an starting period. Initially he was attracted to analytic philosophy. Rorty’s views were strong when he came to believe from representationalism, this tradition in its own way suffered a lot. He associated with Platonism flaw. And he…

Formalists and non-formalists At the outset, it is relevant to point out the philosophical position of Kantian scholars, both formalists and non-formalists which we will intensively examine in this section. However, I do not intend to address whether formalism or non-formalist are espoused in the appropriate scholarship that addresses Kant’s ethics since as noted in Chapter One, Kant introduced both non-formal and formal elements in his writing. Nor do I intend to identify which of these two…

form their own beliefs, it’s hard to find someone without some kind of value on a mental “constraint” or belief passed on from their parents. When someone is looking to settle their curiosities, being exposed to rigorous courses, especially in philosophy, psychology, and ancient literature could reshape a person’s entire outlook on life. The humanities is by far the most powerful division of education in regards to soul-shaping; numbers and formulas won’t do that, not even when you learn there…

To say that Immanuel Kant 's work was influential would be an understatement. His work marked a paradigm shift in western philosophy with his infamous Copernican revolution. Both the analytic and continental traditions can be said to be a response to Kant 's ideas. Still today, Neo-Kantian thinking is still being applied to contemporary thinking today. However, Kant 's work is remembered more for its impact on philosophical thinking, rather than its modern applicability. In both traditions, Kant…

its historical context or systematic place in Hegel’s theory. The will must be acting on a law and cannot be acting merely randomly. The only law follows a law like, e.g. universalizable maxim. Law-giving force is reciprocal with moral law in the Analytic, when one is following the moral will, one is acting independently of one's contingent desires, that is,…

Kant differentiates between two types of judgements, those being Empiricism and Rationalism. Rationalism or analytic judgement depends wholly on the Law of Contradiction and a priori knowledge. “It expresses nothing in the predicate but what has been already actually thought in the concept of the subject, though not so distinctly or with the same (full) consciousness.” (Fieser & Lillegard, 2005, p. 351) Empiricism or synthetic judgement which “require a different Principle from the Law of…

Paul D. Cottingham Fr. Kurt Messick Epistemology September 13, 2014 Kant’s and Hume’s epistemology Immanuel Kant and David Hume were notable philosophers within the modern era, each with their own respective ideology and philosophy; Kant was influenced by rationalism, crafted a theory after the Copernican Revolution explaining the role of human reason in obtaining knowledge, whereas Hume, who was influenced by skepticism, put an end to pure reason and an end to the Enlightenment Era. In the…

During slavery in the United States, southern white slave owners were raised to believe that blacks were inferior, and they believed it. It was hard for slave owners to imagine life any other way, and for them, there was no reason to imagine life any other way. It could be argued that the Yankees used Plato's epistemology. They broke free from the "chains" holding them to the belief that blacks are inferior. The reason that they were able to do this might be that their "chains" weren't as…

Reflecting on Wisdom Angela Harris PSY/220 December 02, 2012 Jean Pedersen Reflecting on Wisdom The one individual that I consider to be very wise is Bishop T.D. Jakes. Even though, I have never met him face-to-face; words spoken by him has inspired mass congregations; as well as me. Opposing to common beliefs, wisdom is not the ability to be knowledgeable about everything, but to a certain extent holding an open mind to additionally enhance comprehensions A wise person considers…