Four Noble Truths

Dexter Sommerfeldt Dr. Alexander Phil 366 11 December 2015 Vogel on the Refutation of Skepticism In the essay “The Refutation of Skepticism,” we see author Jonathon Vogel attempt to deny any skeptic claims about the external world. In its most simple form, his argument claims that to deny skepticism would be the best explanation of the material world. For slight background information, skepticism is the epistemological view that we simple lack the ability to have knowledge of a material world;…

when it comes to protect the ones you love. Some say that they never ever have lied in their entire lives and that's a lie. My position statement is Lying can be allowable when it come to protecting others. My first piece of evidence is from ‘’Is it truth; Americans Conflicted About Lying ‘’,Rebecca Campbell has a 4 year-old…

Figuring out the identity of oneself can be a struggle because with it comes the disclosure of dark secrets that oneself has to accept in order to truly recognize who he or she is. “A Line In The Sand” is a Canadian play that was recently presented at the Factory Theatre in Toronto. The play was authored by two renowned playwrights Guillemore Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef. The play was established in the era of the Gulf war and deals with a number of complex posts and pre-war issues. One of the…

Escapism is something I believe everyone does, be it consciously or sub-consciously. Personally, I believe it’s healthy for the mind and ones self-esteem. Other however may find it to be a waste of their time or pure “fantasy”. This essay is purely opinionated so don’t take any of this as fact or claim it as fact. Firstly what is escapism? Well google says: “The tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in…

more obvious that it was a dystopian society, They are dystopian societies in different ways.In Anthem, the main character had lived with the false truth his whole life. He knows that what he has grown up with is not right. On the other hand, in the Mortal Instruments, the main character realizes how bad the situation is because they grew up in the truth and knew that what was going on was wrong. Both societies were run by the Government. Teenagers show so much interest in dystopian literature…

The centerpiece of the Catholic conception of social justice is that social justice must be a virtuous and ethical approach that states there is an inherent dignity of the human person, which is warranted by the claim that humankind was created in the image of God, and rooted in His virtues. Because of this, people are therefore good, because everything that God has created is good, which means that the way people should view the world is through the perception that everyone else is equally as…

have a pre-determined assumption towards someone. We can use public information or any given background to evaluate another individual. This pre assumption proves that we see what we want to see in others, while completely disregarding any fact or truth behind the…

To be a skeptic is to have “an attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity either in general or toward a particular object” (“Skepticism”). Skepticism is a strong theme throughout the philosophical works of both René Descartes and David Hume. In Descartes’s Discourse on Method he bases all of his philosophical reasoning on the principle of doubting all prior accepted knowledge and questioning everything. In Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume raises his doubts about…

Both Plato and Descartes are similar men when it comes to the quest of knowledge. Both men believe knowledge is the product of our own reasoning and understanding of the world around us. They are both distinctive on how to answer the big question, “What is knowledge?” Plato’s way of demonstrating knowledge is his most famous examples of the Allegory of the Cave and The Divided Line, which uses the idea of sense perception. Socrates/Plato set the scenario in which there are prisoners who've been…

Reality is a complex thought exhibited within a singular dimension, the true world. Aldous Huxley once asserted, “there are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. Perceptions are misconceptions, which elicit inaccurate understandings of the true world; thus they cannot be considered reality. While humans are capable of contemplating such misinterpretations, they must be false, as mankind itself is confined by a worldly boundary. The idea of…