Buddhist philosophy

Hays additionally argues that Niebuhr does not engage in any exegetical work of any kind for his ethical developments and uses only a small selection of passages from the New Testament. Niebuhr’s focus in the Gospels is only on Jesus’ sayings in the Sermon on the Mount and his use of Paul’s writings is limited to one chapter of Romans. Where Niebuhr does excel is in his use of passages that stand in tension with his position, he uses them to press in the radical nature and impossibility of his…

groups today have adopted the ideas of many philosopher’s. They use these ideas in hope that it helps shape their community in a positive way. One of most influential philosopher’s is Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher. Plato has created many philosophies and ideas that we still look to today. One of Plato’s quotes was,“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” This is an idea that most people follow today and that has been used for years. It teaches us how to be kinder to…

Kierkegaard uses the parable of the jewel, to illustrate the difference in thought in the passionate and reflective ages. In the following essay, I will explore the difference between the two ages to gain a deeper understanding of Kierkegaard’s sentiments behind the example, before explaining the parable and showing how his prophetic analysis is truer than ever. Kierkegaard begins the The Present Age by stating that the present age is “one of understanding and reflection, without passion,…

BOOK V, SECTION 14 Socrates has shown us what is justice, both in the state and the individual. But to give real answer to the questions and problems raised him Trasícamo, Glaucon and Adeimantus, it must now continue to prove that a man is always better to be right than wrong. To achieve this, Socrates must first give a detailed description of injustice, then to contrast these two contrary qualities. Well, if justice is a kind of internal harmony in the state or in the mind, injustice must…

According to Immanuel Kant philosophy of ethical formalism the only thing that is good is a "good will". Even if the end of an individual 's action is bad, it still would be considered a moral action along as the individual enter the action with good will. Secondly Kant strongly believed that doing "one 's duty" will be bestow with moral worth. Hypothetical imperatives regard to if one wants to completed a certain task then one needs to do a certain action or steps to complete it. Also…

Kant and Brandt had opposing views on the morality and rationality of suicide. Kant’s argument is that suicide is always wrong. His definition of suicide is that there is always motivation by the desire for pleasure and to avoid some pain. He says that it is about the intention. A suicide is defined as killing yourself in order to avoid pain or because of lack of pleasure. He also states that not suicide, then when there is a rational duty and not pleasure. Kant used two different…

When Socrates finds out that Euthyphro is charging his own father with the negligent homicide of a slave, he asks Euthyphro what Piety is. Euthyphro believes that prosecuting his father is his responsibility as he believes that he must act with piety. He declares that no matter what the case, even if it is family who killed someone who was not a relative, this is his first reasoning for the prosecution. Socrates responds to Euthyphro’s reasoning saying that this definition is too broad. Socrates…

In Leviathon, Hobbes states that he believes everyone to be born equal, that this leads to a “war of all against all.” In this war where everyone seeks power over one another, there are certain things that everyone should agree on in order to keep peace—laws. Hobbes suggests that people are bound to these laws, usually by a sovereign, or else they are to be punished. The problem here is deciding whether people follow these laws so that they may keep peace, so that they do not get punished, or…

James and Pascal’s defences of faith in some of their most famous arguments, specifically Pascal’s, devalue faith by making faith selfish, providing an obvious out to faith, and making the decision of faith into a gamble, oddly, his devaluation of faith does not hurt his argument, it makes it easier to convince the skeptics. To prove that Pascal’s argument devalues faith and to understand why it doesn’t negatively affect his argument, it’s necessary to understand the whole argument. His…

childhood. Through dialogue with the forms of life of childhood, the adult reappropriates, recreates, and re-constellates childhood as an element of teleology of her own life cycle” (Kennedy, 2000, p. 37). For him, in order to be effective, the philosophy of education needs to take into consideration both what adults know about children and what children can tell adults about the world. He links childhood and adulthood as an inseparable pair, where the stages complement each other, so the more…