Critique of Pure Reason

1) On Lao Tzu, Mo Tzu, and Hsun Tzu, how do they differ in relation to what counts as harmonizing? Do you think that harmony exists empirically or is it merely a rationalist's dream (are you skeptical of harmony's existence)? On the topic of how music relates to bringing harmony to the world, Hzun Tzu has a more positive outlook on how music can actually bring about harmony to a society. He believes that music actually correlates with harmony for it acts as common ground that every single…

Age of Reason The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, is the name given to the period in Europe and America during the 1700s when mankind was emerging from centuries of ignorance into a new age enlightened by reason, science, and respect for humanity. People of the Enlightenment period were convinced that human reason could discover the natural laws of the universe and determine the natural rights of mankind; thereby continuing progress in knowledge, technical achievement, and moral…

Explain and critique Freud’s theory as to why war is endemic to human society. (15 points) 1. Freud’s theory that war is endemic to human society is based on his belief that human beings are bound by both a life and a death instinct. This death instinct is based on the instinctive animalistic nature within humans that guides violence as the means of problem solving. In the most primitive societies, it is this manner which governs society, but that’s not to say that it doesn’t exist in the modern…

Based on their social class and their habitus individuals develop a musical taste that is linked to their social class. Whilst Bourdieu distinguishes between the ‘pure’ gaze as a sign for the high class, the “popular aesthetic” (Bourdieu, 1984, p.5) is a sign for the lower classes and a lower quality (Bourdieu, 1984). Peterson develops Bourdieu’s theory further. Whilst adopting between high class and lower class…

David Wen 0277- Theory of Knowledge Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School B. Patton 21-01-2015 Reasoning with Imagination topic #1: Compare the roles played by reason and imagination in at least two areas of knowledge To what extent does reason require imagination? In the field of epistemology, the roles played by reason versus those played by imagination have been controversial. Reasoning is the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way whereas imagination is the faculty…

Today, various forms of government exist across the world as remnants and variations of the original ideals developed years ago by historic philosophers like John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and James Harrington. Philosophers have played a substantial role in the development of law and government over the course of history in roughly every civilization and they basically served as innovators in the field of moral principles, ethics, and human rights. One of the larger political innovations of the past…

In the poem the author discuss the dangers of taking courtly love too seriously. In the beginning of the poem a young maid is being watched from afar as she laments about her lost lover. As the poem progresses the reasons for her abandonment are revealed and “there’s no more hiding”(10). The maid, who was once desired and valorized by her “loyal knight”(25), has been left alone to fend for herself and her unborn child. In the third stanza the maid recalls how the young…

David Hume was one of the most influential philosophers of his time and continues to be mentioned and studies to this day. Almost equally as impressive was the response that philosopher Immanuel Kant had to his Inquiry of Human Understanding. Kant attempted to respond to Hume’s ideas and in this essay, I will identify the Hume’s beliefs behind the concepts such as cause, and effect and I will later defend Kant’s response to Hume. He raises points that leave his reader with a deeper understanding…

Kant’s rationalism can be contrasted to Hume’s sentimentalism. Kant held that moral principles must be derived a priori from reason and as such all morality must be grounded in these principles. Likewise, Hume argued moral principles are ruled by the sentiments and passions and that all morality can be explained by conflicting passions. For Kant moral judgments are made from reason and logic, while for Hume, moral judgment is derived from sentiments and passions, and by acting on whichever of…

time that the concept of a ‘living vampire’ is used in the film industry, and this is actually the third adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend in 1954, which was published after the Cold War when people viewed the world as a duality of pure good and evil. In this case, the latest I Am Legend movie, constructs a representation of a zombie-vampire like world that resembles more than just monsters, it resembles society’s biggest…