Marxist philosophy

FIRST PHILOSOPHY PAPER ON ARISTOTLE’S ETHICS ALEX FEIGHERY PHILOSOPHY 201-13, FALL 2017 1 NOVEMBER 2017 The Nicomachean Ethics is a book that is considered to be the philosopher Aristotle’s best-known. The Ethics details Aristotle’s thoughts on essentially how one should be a human and how one should achieve happiness. This paper will focus on a specific argument of Aristotle’s Ethics. This argument is expressed in Chapter 7 of his first Book, being that of “man’s function.” Using…

Anthony Weston is an American Philosopher, teacher, and writer. He has written a book titled “Practical Companion to Ethics” that does discus Ethics, Religion, and Creative Problem-Solving in Ethics. Weston also discusses constructive moral dialogue. Constructive moral dialogue is concepts and ideas that makes our relationship with others easier. It allows us to get along with others that have different beliefs and concepts. We use constructive moral dialogue to cope with other human beings.…

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the Role of Philosophy Very few subjects, if any, divides opinions as much as philosophy. Philosophy occupies a realm of logic and reasoning which is often considered to be mutually exclusive from the more commonly accepted ones of science and mathematics. This difference can often lead to the masses questioning the efficacy of philosophy. However, for those who understand the true value of philosophy and are willing to invest the time and attention that is…

Ethical System Review and My Own Belief Submitted by: Mallory Moss Ethics in Justice: HUM3350 (C02) Lethbridge College Submitted to: Kirsten Fantazir November 1, 2017 Ethical System Review and My Own Beliefs After learning about different ethical systems it seems as though I could pick pieces out of all the systems and create to an extent what I believe. Although the one that stuck out the most was ethics of virtue. Ethics of virtue are considered to be based on the person rather than…

intrinsic good - something good in itself, what we value for what it naturally is and nothing more, such as friendship or happiness or emotions as a whole are considered to be intrinsic goods. Glaucon raised experimental ideas against Socrates’ philosophy towards justice and challenged him with narrative examples and whatnot. He also brought forth that there are 3 types of good: intrinsic, instrumental and intrinsic/instrumental - the combination of both. Glaucon abided in justice being…

The story Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, translation by Thomas Sheehan explains how people are living in cavelike dwelling like prisoners and not in the real word. It’s telling us how people are stuck in one place because they don't believe that there is something different from what and where they are living. In the story there was a prisoner that had escaped from the cave and was able to view the outside world and how different it was. Once he went back into the cave and told the other…

In Hardin’s 1968 article, “The Tragedy of the commons,” his foundational ideas are derived from the question: is there a technical solution to the population problem(Hardin 1243)? He argues that there is a not a technical solution to this problem, which means that the natural sciences will not be able to provide an adequate solution, and thus, a change must be made to human morality and values(1243). This lack of a technical solution tied with society’s current values revolve around Adam…

Throughout the case, there was ethical reasoning and the Six Pillar of Character that can overall hence why Navistar and Deloitte acted upon with their decisions at the end. The Six Pillar of Characters include fairness, truth, responsibility, care, respectfulness, and citizenship. Out of these six pillars, Navistar throughout the case missed out in the importance of complying with responsibility and the overall trust. They violated these two specific pillars of the group of Six pillars of…

Deeply rooted in philosophy, the correspondence view of reality and truth is the typical way of thinking in society. Reality in this model may look like the following thought process: Reality is the correspondence between what is in the outside world and what is in the viewer’s head. Reality is independent of the subject, but the experience of reality is dependent on the subject. It is independent because objects in reality exist as they are without the experience of observers. This ontology…

Although many describe truth’s effectiveness as mountain-crumbling, perhaps the intrinsic value of truth is romanticized. This is not to say that falsehood automatically has more power than the truth; simply that, in a given context, perhaps, the sole knowledge of the truth would fail to convert an obstinate and cruel audience to righteousness. In such a situation, the power of truth’s possessors eclipses the intrinsic power of the truth to maintain morality and to eradicate evil falsehoods.…