Cult of Reason

college and for many different reasons. It could be for family, to refine their skills, or it could just be the next big step in their mind, Either way college is an immense change for most people, myself included. I can also relate to the a couple of the reasons other people may find themselves in college. Today it’s my turn to wonder why am I in college? “Why are you in college?” The question presented can easily be seen as daunting. However I can list a few reasons as to why I am here. At…

The acceptance of evil or theodicy within our modern world, has become questioned more and more as we as citizens of the world and children of God are constantly exposed to the terrors of religious fanatic’s, murderers, and tribes of kidnappers around the globe. The phrase, if God is all powerful, all knowing, and all good, how can that same God allow evil to exist and for bad things to happen to good people? Some authors have even attempted to answer this question directly, there is at…

philosophies of the school of rationalism. The advantage of rationalism is that it relies solely on logic and reason to seek absolute truths. Empiricism’s flaw is that it relies merely on sensory observation to seek conclusions, which are subjective and can be deceptive. Many times I have been mislead by my senses, making me hesitant to trust empirical observations. I trust logic and reason over my own sensory observations when making conclusions in my own life. In the NHL, there has been a…

Critical Summary # 2: Mary Astell In A Serious Proposal to the Ladies: Part II Mary Astell addresses the concept of wisdom and the pursuit for truth and in particular how it relates to women. Astell looks to prescribe a way of thinking and a type of education for women, based on rationality and judgments separate from passion (98). Astell’s philosophy is closely linked and inspired by Descartes, Locke and Arnauld and looks at ways to improve the mind (98). This paper will focus primarily on an…

“There are patterns which emerge in one 's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme.” (Carey) In Plato’s Republic, Socrates explains gives a long, in-depth analogy to explain justice. The analogy used is a city, in which everything is conditioned to be a perfectly just city. All the patterns of this city make it the perfect example of how a just society would be run, and exactly what justice means. He makes many points in he explains justice, through his major themes.…

Human progress is inevitable when it comes to using one’s reason to make sense of the world in which they live in. It is human nature to question everything, which results in an individual questioning of societal attitudes and values as well as their own. The following essay will explore the themes of human progress sub categorised by slavery, reason, nature and inequality and how they relate to today’s world. Human progress follows new advancements of every sphere that have been implemented to…

Language was a creation of human and it has become a complex system of communication. Because language is greatly adaptive and flexible, it would constantly evolving and changing through time. Despite the fact that Language has different functions, they serve one main purpose. To make expression of one’s idea, thought and feeling. Specifically, language has four functions. They are expressive, informative, directive and survival. The first use of language is defined as expressive, it…

Envision a world in which there was insufficient logical thought processes for the attainment of knowledge. For ages, humankind has struggled with the idea of how one obtains this knowledge, if for nothing more, than to learn efficiency in its acquisition. Without Descartes ' reasoned arguments of rationalism, Hume would not likely have been so inspired to formulate his counter argument of empiricist thought. Descartes defined his basic persona as a, "thinking being" more precisely; he stated…

Grayling is a well known philosopher, and educator, with having written over 30 books on the sujets of: Knowledge, Ideas and Reason. In one instance he defined reason as being the “ Power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic” and later stated that “rightly used can settle disputes and guide us to the truth”. Opposing this, I believe that “Reason can when rightly used, lead us to the truth, but is conceptually flawed as we humans are generally emotional…

In this philosophical study, an evaluation of the dualistic ideology of “good and evil” will be examined in Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. Hobbes effectively defines the skeptical aspects of human nature, which define human beings as a innately war=like and self-interested. These facts define the role of the “passions” in human behavior, which attempt to discern between the appetites and aversions of human choice, which force them to choose between an evil or a good co-existence with their fellow…