Justified true belief

The character, going by the name Meursault, acts in accordance to upholding the integrity of how true he is to himself, even if the rest of society does not recognize it as such, but as a proof of guilt for heinous crimes. In spite of the fact that he did not have the most glamorous character and infringed upon other people at times, he was not willing…

Major are overthrown. Men are not the animals’ only enemy but also the tyrannical pigs and the animals themselves.The starvation they face under human rule cannot be compared to the one they face under the pigs’ regime, and the order of nature becomes true again by the pigs’ tyranny and the animals’ ignorance and inability to fight back.The truth in the beginning has at last become a lie and lie has yet again become…

Throughout the three readings we have completed so far; No Exit, Myth of Sisyphus, and The Stranger, the characters seem to castigate themselves in an unknowing ways. The term Absurdism is defined as; intentionally ridiculous or bizarre behavior or character which happens in all of our readings. Extremism is defined as; the holding of extreme political or religious views; fanaticism this is also a part constantly. In No Exit there is utmost sense of extremism of all the readings because of…

In Language, Truth and Logic by Alfred Jules Ayer, Ayer positions himself with the proposition that in order for a person to make a meaningful claim about the world, the claim must pass the criterion of verifiability. The role of the criterion of verifiability is to test the genuineness of a statement of facts. (Ayer 35)” Ayer’s role for the criterion of verifiability is to test if a person’s proposition is or is not a meaningful claim about the world. The criterion of verifiability is made up…

One of the most contentious debates of modern times is whether religious beliefs should be included as a basis of evaluating and implementing public policy. While modernization and secularization are seen as signs of progress and development, adherence to religion or involving religious beliefs is seen as backward, primitive, outdated and irrelevant to the workings of the political system by many. This is based on the idea of linear development and that total secularism and abandonment of…

alliance of the church and state by questioning their authoritative ability to force individual opinion. The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom was written in 1777, in it Jefferson calls for the end of “All attempts to influence religious belief by temporal punishments...” He believed that the…

relativism as different cultures having different moral codes. Therefore, moral truth is relative and varies from culture to culture. Further on, he justifies why the cultural relativism argument is invalid, and why cultural relativism (if it were true) is an unacceptable form of morality. Finally, he makes concessions to acknowledge some valuable learning points of cultural relativism. In this essay, I argue the flaws in his conclusions and maintains that although it is important for objective…

The principle of believing in something on insufficient evidence, and might be called inadequate or invalid confirmation of something, got its most famous creation in an essay by W.K. Clifford, entitled “The Ethics of Belief”. Clifford asks a reasonable question: Is it ever morally permissible to believe a proposition on insufficient evidence? He is asking whether it is ever morally okay to let factors other than evidence and logical argument influence our thoughts. To some, it is permissible to…

Merrill hits the alien as hard as he can because, just like hitting a baseball, “it felt wrong not to.” The alien stumbles and one of Bo’s many water glasses fall to burn its shoulder. There are so many glasses around the house due to Bo’s strange belief that all of her water is contaminated. Throughout the movie it seems as if this is just a child’s imagination, but imagination is much more powerful than reality. Bo’s childish quirk has become more of a subliminal battle strategy. The alien is…

foundation they built will begin to crumble. This is by far the hardest part of taking the leap of faith because there are so many different opinions and views out there floating around that have an equal chance of being right. I found that sticking to my belief system and keeping my faith in God is more beneficial in the end because as I grow in my faith the more I begin to stick out from the crowd and become more unique. Like Soren Kierkegaard said, “As soon a person can be brought to stand at…