Consolation of Philosophy

roads. And just as you must choose whenever you come to a fork in your physical road, you must also choose between different mental roads, different philosophies of life.” Throughout The Journey, Peter Kreeft explains that life will always have two ways. One cannot either pick to have or not to have philosophy but the choice is between good or bad philosophy. To decide which way of thinking is good or bad one must question other views to strengthen their own. Peter Kreeft is in a dream-like…

Why the fictional character Elleanor Anne Arroway Did not Believe in God. The fictional character Elleanor Anne Arroway, from the film “Contact,” had many reasons why she did not believe in god. She lost her parents at a young age, she was inquisitive, and there is how insane religion or religious people can be. The first of which would be her mother dying during her birth. Adding to that, her father, whom she was very close with, also died when she was around nine years old. So, the two…

what ought to be done in moral dilemmas. Although Kant tries to make the categorical imperative seem like a nicely packaged set of rules, we must be mindful when observing these rules, as they are merely guidelines. As our book Fundamentals of Philosophy points out, our moral decisions rarely come to us in neat and tidy choices between obvious good and obvious evil. As the old proverb says, choices are about saying no to one thing so you can say yes to…

Does Meursault’s catharsis affect his own existentialist behavior? Meursault’s catharsis affects people such as the chaplain who was attack by Meursault in which eventually led to his own existentialist behavior. Meursault relief opens himself to “the gentle indifference of the world” (Camus 122). His lack of emotions towards caring indicates that he is different than the rest of the world. Through Meursault release of anger towards the chaplain, he demonstrates his hatred towards death,…

CHALLENGING STEREOTYPES THROUGH PLATO “Understand, then, that as we said, there are these two things, one sovereign of the intelligible kind and place, the other of the visible…. In any case, you have two kinds of things, visible and intelligible.” - Plato (Republic, 509d: page 183) In his allegory of the ‘line’ and “cave Plato defines various types of knowledge and how each is acquired. Per the allegory of the ‘line’ his forms of knowledge are broken into two major categories, each with two…

"Traditional utilitarianism is a target reason for making esteem judgments… which decide the best social strategy and social enactment" (Velasquez, 2012, pg. 78, para. 6). Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Plant are viewed as the originators of conventional utilitarianism. They needed to look for a target reason for the ethically best game-plan. Their utilitarian rule holds that an activity is just moral right if the entirety of utilities delivered by that activity exceeds the aggregate utilities…

where their happiness lies, another is it doesn't give us all of our obligations and the lastly, it is concerned more with experiencing then with justice. The needs of happiness ought weigh the needs of the all for a few that aren’t happy. This philosophy goes against the a moral theory. It brings you back to the case of is it morally permissible to break a promise if it determines one’s…

What is the best way to live an ethical life? Morals differ from culture to culture and people have their own ideas of how to live an ethical lifestyle. Plato was a philosopher who challenged Athenians to change their virtue and improve their soul. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist Minister who challenged the laws the government put in place in the United States. They both changed the ethical lifestyle they were living in, but they both saw a different viewpoint of what was good, justice, and…

Nagel raises captivating inquiries in his book, "What does everything mean?" Do we live in reality? Is this present reality just as genuine as we see it to be? What is the significance of life? In the first place, we will investigate our view of the 'genuine' world and attempt to answer if that world is genuinely there or in our brains. Besides, suppose the world is genuine what's more, every other person in it, when we think about the subject of the psyche and the cerebrum; did we have that…

Plato’s Republic deals with three central images, the sun, the line, and the cave. Through these images, Socrates explains to his student Glaucon the difference between sensory things and true thoughts and forms. Plato uses his allegory of the cave to assert that the masses are living in ignorant bliss and that it is the job of the philosopher, no matter the consequences, to spread enlightenment. In order to understand this, to first understand Plato’s other ideas from the Republic, those of the…