Buddhist philosophy

Humans are born to die and within their lifetime will form some sort of story that’s either happy, sad, evil or virtuous. It makes sense that a human beings are taught to be moral but it's mostly not taught to be immoral as if it were second nature. “What Makes Us Moral” by Jeffrey Kluger, Sula by Toni Morrison, The Help; director Tate Taylor are main sources based on the elements of morality. All of the elements of literature; shunning, moral entrepreneur, reciprocal altruism, empathy, ought,…

Dr. Magada-Ward Philosophy 1030 4 November 2017 Essay 2 Set forth and discuss the constituents of eudaimonia. Do you agree with Aristotle’s list and his weighting? Why or why not? Furthermore, do you believe that it is possible for us, now, to achieve eudaimonia? In the Ethics, Aristotle contemplates four primary topics-the definitions of virtues and vices, humanity's unique ability to deliberate and choose, how ethics relates to human action, and the point of human striving. Arguably, his…

Analyzing an Ethical Dilemma An ethical dilemma is when an individual is in a situation where it is hard to decide the right choice, whether it is because the right decision is not clear, or the choice has some negative consequences (Pollock, 2015, p.15). I have faced a couple of ethical dilemmas in my life. For this essay I will talk about my most recent ethical dilemma and my emotional and intellectual responses along with influential factors that affected my decision. Background I lived…

The introductory text is titled “Life Almost Straight” because generally the idea of something being straight is that it’s perfect. Like a perfectly straight line. However life is almost straight, not perfect, and will never be perfect. These texts are written in a way that explains this in a way where the real meaning is hidden you just have to find it. The three best texts that show this are “College Should be an Adventure”, “Peanuts” comic strip, and “Sorrow Teeming with Light”. These texts…

Inevitable death, it is the one thing an individual can expect to occur during their lifetime. Depending on the circumstances some might describe dying as unfortunate while others will classify it as a justified punishment. However, with the execution of Socrates, it seems as if this philosopher would describe his fate in some rather unconventional ways. Socrates acknowledges that there is an internal fear of dying that is planted in the minds of human beings, but why? How is it possible that we…

Descartes’s goal is to look for necessary truths by examining beliefs based off of our senses. To do this, he must prove that sense perception is not a trustworthy source of information, as well as anything that proves some uncertainty as well. For instance, Descartes states that, “if I am able to find in each one some reason to doubt, this will be enough to justify rejecting it”(Descartes 73). This shows Descartes’s belief that if there is some uncertainty in the conclusions which have been…

Everyone has had an experience which has made them feel as it as irrational or unjustifiable. However, much of these experiences are looked at under doubtful examination, and have been explained to be logically justifiable and not at all mystical. Philosopher, William James (1910) explains these experiences and helps to understand them through his lecture on mysticism. His belief that no part of the experience should be left unexplored is what gained him a respectful popularity, James calls this…

Can morality be purely subjective to the perspective of an individual? Fyodor Dostoevsky explores this idea through the protagonist Rodion Raskolnikov, in the novel Crime and Punishment. “I simply hinted that an extraordinary man has the right… that is not an official right, but an inner right to decide his own conscience to overstep… certain obstacles, and only in case it is essential for the practical fulfillment of his idea (sometimes, perhaps, of benefit to the whole of humanity)”(Dostoevsky…

How Affective Is the Golden Rule? The biblical meaning of Golden Rule has been considered to say, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” This statement applies to everything we do in life, but most people take it very lightly. In this case, it applies to bullying. It applies to treating those as you would want them to treat you and nothing less of that. Bullying is something that has gone on for years, decades, and has either not been taken seriously or taken very faintly. Will…

In Peter Adamson’s, Classical Philosophy, Adamson also proposed that Aristotle had the better argument because, “Empedocles has not spelled out the mechanisms by which random processes could yield uniform and predictable processes” (Adamson 241). As Adamson points out, Aristotle better…