Marxist philosophy

Ethics can be explained as set of moral principles or behaviour of conduct for oneself or a group. It will affect how a person making decisions & choices. For example, the concept of “right” and “wrong” brought the need for a formal approach to social behaviour an effort to create unity and organization in a society. The course of actions in counselling usually determined by ethics conduct (Forester-Miller & Davis 2016). . However, for a counsellor, ethical dilemmas are inevitable. As…

Focusing on Question One of Aquinas’ Questions on the Soul, explain what it means to Aquinas for the soul to be both form and entity. Present Aquinas’ argumentation for the position, and briefly indicate whether you find the arguments convincing or not, and your reasons. From the very fact that Aquinas begins his Questions on the Soul with the question of whether the soul is both a form and entity, we are perhaps already introduced to the significance of this position for the defence of his…

Integrity can be defined as the quality of being honest, and having strong moral principles and uprightness. It is the state of being whole and undivided, the word integrity comes from the same Latin root as integer and implies a wholeness of a person. Just as we would talk about a whole number, we can also talk about a whole person who is undivided. A person of integrity lives rightly, he/ she is not divided, neither are they a different person in different circumstances. Excellence work hand…

Humans’ exploration of knowledge have long before began at Ancient Greek, ever since Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle laid the foundations of Western philosophy. Although some of their theories and findings were rightly discarded along the way by later scientists like Newton, their ways of acquiring knowledge remains very much of use today. I will now discuss which texts have greater influence in my reflection of knowledge. Epistemological concern was one of the philosophical issues that Plato and…

Kierkegaard describes faith as “the teleological suspension of the ethical.” What does this mean? Why does he associate the ethical with the universal? What does the universal mean for Kierkegaard? If faith suspends the ethical/universal, what then is the ground for faith? What are the strengths and weakness of Kierkegaard’s position? Do you think he is ultimately right? Why or why not? Teleological suspension of the ethical in short would mean to sacrifice our moral obligations to achieve a…

Seminal German philosopher Frederick Nietzsche published On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life in 1874. Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben in the original German, the work is also often translated as “The Use and Misuse of History for Life.” The seventy-page work is packed with philosophical inquiries into the role historical knowledge plays in an individual’s life and how this knowledge can best be used to improve one’s wellbeing. It is the second work in a…

Prof. Ak and Ayşe Küçük’s Case Like every part of the life, there are ethical and unethical behaviors in science. Not only being a hardworking and knowledgeable scientist but also to be an ethical one is our responsibility to our work, co-workers, and to the world. Every scientist of course allowed to make mistakes. However, the way of handling a situation may show how fair is this scientist. In Ayşe Küçük and Mehmet Ak’s case, there are lots of ethical flaws and almost none of them handled…

Carl Rogers founded the humanistic approach to therapy known as person-client centered therapy. Rogers was a pioneer in terms of his revolutionary ideas and novel ways of thinking. He didn’t approve of the systematic methods used by psychoanalysts. He thought psychodynamic methodology created too much distance between the therapist and client. According to Rogers, therapy is more effective if the client grasped with his feelings, emotions and thoughts and the therapist supported them.…

The third step of the four-step process is analyzing the ethicality of both alternatives in step two, which in this case is whether or not the implementation of the monitoring system should take place. The first process of the third step is applying the concept of consequentialism. Consequentialism "focuses on the goals, ends, results, or consequences of an action that is being taken."To begin this section of the process we had to decide if the implementation of the new monitoring system was…

Education serves as the basis of a society and in such way has it been for hundreds of years. Aristotle once made a statement that said: ”The roots of education are bitter, but the fruits are sweet”. But who reaps the fruits of education? You might have thought that it is only the individual who studies that benefits from education, but as President Barack Obama said in his speech “Back to School”, education is not just a matter of the individual it is in the highest degree a matter for the…