Foundationalism

Rousseau demonstrates his foundationalism by advocating for a government that flows from the means of the “general will” to achieve the end of the “public good.” While Rousseau supports liberty in the form of revolution, he offers stipulations which culminate in his conception of the “general will.” In a sense, Rousseau’s concept of the general will would fall into the category of foundationalist conservatism. Rousseau’s proclamation that “Every legitimate government is republican” demonstrates…

One’s New Sword,” she argues about the problems that are related to moral relativism. Another philosopher, John Arthur wrote an article “Religion, Morality and Conscience,” which also addresses the issue of relativism from the perspective of foundationalism. Both Mary Midgley and John Arthur have respective solutions towards this controversial issue. Moral relativism has the idea of moral isolationism. Anything in your culture goes; outsiders have no room to criticize about that culture,…

from a non-perfect being. So then lastly, he comes to the conclusion that because of the reasons above, God must exist. These two arguments of God’s existence fit into Descartes’s theory of knowledge in a couple different ways. First, foundationalism. Foundationalism is the theory that there are certain truths which no one can doubt. And by having these truths, we can figure out a correct basis of knowledge about the rest of reality. This applies to the arguments for God’s existence because…

Reading/Discussion Questions Assignment 1 1. Students improve in the way they think. They would be a better person, be happy, and find the correct truth about what happen in life. That is what Philosophy do to us, it guides you to develop your brain better. Also the word Philosophy is more often recognized as “the love of wisdom.” 2. The Socratic Method of teaching is one of the oldest and powerful methods. This method is very useful because it develops critical thinking and involves giving…

self-evident facts, if any exist. Descartes plans to methodologically and rationally find doubt, meaning that there must be a reason and a process with which to doubt. In its modern iterations, this notion is referred to as foundationalism or internalism. The structure of Descartes foundationalism focuses on two points, the first of which states that if something passes the skeptical test it is a self evident truth, one beyond doubt, while the second furthers the notion that these self-evident…

In general there have been three solutions to the general regress argument: infinite regress, sceptic and foundations. Out of all the propose theories, foundationalism appears to be the most possible. Foundationalism is the view where the justification is done by referring to basic beliefs. Coherentists pointed out that there should be a fourth solution to the argument: holism (BonJour, 2003). The belief can be justified if it is connected…

Edin Palmar PHI2010 F 10:00-10:50am Dr. Schuh Ch.1 Introduction 1. Explain some of the benefits a student may gain by studying philosophy. Studying philosophy helps one tackle the question of the “self” in the sense that it makes one really think of why they believe in something or why one does the things they do. This in turn will help us to “think, reason, and evaluate” critically in order to attain wisdom and intelligence, something not easily obtained due to the constant bombardment of the…

For some, the topic of religion is one they push aside and ignore, and for others it causes heated debates. In this essay I will argue that though both religious believers and non-religious believers when faced with the same evidence find different conclusions, it is still rational to continue believing what you have been. There are different positions that one can hold in there belief system and why they believe what they do. There is a movement that has people “believing only if their belief…

Descartes was a French philosopher who is considered today as the “Father of Modern Philosophy”. Descartes often fought with the idea of this thing called Skepticism, which is the philosophical position that knowledge is impossible. This did not sit well with Descartes so he decided to write a book called “The Meditations on First Philosophy” as a guide book to the truth. Descartes’ two main aims with this book were first, to address and defeat skepticism, and second, to attain perfect knowledge…

The time I think we are not interpreting our mental state is when our minds are no longer opaque and becomes difficult. Meaning that if our thoughts are not opaque we do not have opaque beliefs and reasons, which means we have no knowledge. Foundationalism focuses on the “real” and uses the cone structure, and uses the Descartes doubt test. The cone structure is having a narrow foundation and have a broad spectrum for support. Descartes doubt test help determine the foundation for a narrow…