Four Noble Truths

When is lying okay? Is it always acceptable? Is it never acceptable to ‘’commit a sin’’ as german philosopher? Immanuel Kant would refer to a lie as.Your standpoint may differ from mine.I in believe lying is only permitted,when it can be used to protect and care for others or yourself. No one wants to hurt a friends feelings.The U.S. Political Campaign:Lies,Lies,Lies Excerpt feels the same.They call this type of lie the ‘’I love your dress’’ lie.It’s what the person(friend)who is being lied to…

A man under the name Friedich Nietzche wrote the paper “Twilight of the Idols” around the 1870s’ during his time of mortal breakdown. He has written many papers such as “The Gay Science”, “Thus Zarathusta”, “Beyond Good and Evil”, “Genealogy of Moral”. From the reading Nietzche discusses his beliefs on earth as a whole and the belief of what is around us. He begins the reading by questioning the mind of philosophers. The mind of a philosopher is meant to be confusing and difficult to understand,…

helpful, friendly, and many more, but those are just the first four. Most of all twelve, every person should be trustworthy. Trustworthiness has so much meaning to it, speaking the truth, believing in someone, not having to check up on another person’s duties, and believing in him or herself. Essentially it is an easy thing, but everyone needs to work at it and conquer it in order to have a more trusting society. Speaking the truth is the biggest part of trustworthiness, if not the most…

Correspondence Theory of the Truth is probably the simplest, and most intuitive theory of truth out there. P is true iff p corresponds to a fact. P is false iff, p does not correspond to any fact; So the truth ‘scorpion is venomous’ is true iff there is some fact about the world that corresponds to that statement. A truth bearer is true iff it bears a specific part of reality. There is relationship between the proposition and it’s corresponding the fact. 24. The coherence theory of truth is…

A person that has insight into the future faces a moral dilemma; should you withhold information that you know of a person's future in order to protect them mentally, or should you tell them because it is information of their future? This is the dilemma that Owen Meany struggles with throughout this novel. Based on many events, it is quite apparent that Owen Meany has a solid idea of what the future holds for him and his friend. Owen Meany's choice is usually to withhold the information in order…

“Allegory of the Cave” was written by Greek philosopher, Plato. Plato successfully pursued his mentor, Socrates, as his dialogues and writings became well known in society today. The cave in this excerpt can be interpreted into many many ideas. Based on “Allegory of the Cave,” the cave in the passage represents lack of knowledge (lecture 2015) since the prisoners believed that the shadows of objects were the true form. Moreover, my cave would be my parents and their perspective on appearance…

Answering question about the personal identity requires for us to make a certain judgements based on what a person is. According to Parfit, he proposes that people have separate the notions of identity and survival. He is wondering that what matter in survival is identity and he questions identity and survival results of certain experiments. Moreover, Parfitt also states that personal identity is not what person really value and care about and he analysis that personal identity are far ranging…

Philosophy: The Pursuit of Truth, in the Company of Nous Socrates, as presented in many works of Plato, makes inquiries about the garnering of knowledge and truth. In the platonic dialogue, Meno, Socrates attempts to answer Meno’s paradox: if you don’t know what you are looking for, how can it be found? Meno’s question allows for the assertion that inquiry is impossible, for how do we know what to ask, if we don’t know, or have knowledge about, what we are asking. This perplexity brings up the…

According to the semiotics theory found by Saussure, the relation between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary. There is no reason why the letters produce exactly the image. Semiotics is the language expression expresses the discursive process, rather than a static structural relationships or rules. As Roland Barthes mentioned in his book “Mythologies”, “On the one hand, an ideological critique of the language of so-called mass culture; on the other, an initial semiological dismantling…

Picture this! You enter a drawing contest and ask your friend for their opinion on your drawing. Your friend tells you that you are totally going to win because you have amazing drawing skills. You don’t know, but she’s lying to you. You feel so sure that you’re going to win a place in the contest and in the end you don’t. You would feel all gloomy and sad afterwards because you didn’t win, when you were so sure of yourself. After all your friend didn’t tell you their honest opinion. I firmly…