Natural philosophy

Of the Academical or Skeptical Philosophy: End of Part 2 Hume starts off by stating that skeptical judgements to reasoning’s concerning matters of fact are strictly derived from the natural weakness of human understanding. This of course includes the contradictory opinions and our own changing judgements over the years. Because we constantly react to decisions reached from moment to moment, future experience and this particular species of argument is completely insufficient and not a reason for…

JC Mr. Hume I wish to discuss your theory of causation and necessary connection, which have become the subject of much controversy among later thinkers. I would like you to clear up many of the things that these philosophers believe are controversial about your work. But first, in order to do so I think it is only fair that we first clear up what your goals were in writing An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. DH I do agree that in order to best understand my theory it would be…

Stoics don’t see philosophy in the way we see it today. They see it as a way of life, but for them philosophy is not about the past or even about knowledge it is a way of life. They define philosophy as a kind of practice or exercise concerning what is beneficial. What can make life better? How can it become better? Once we come to know the value of the world and nature we transforms, a sort of self-transformation. The Stoics have God is a corporeal Entity. The one who created it all and to the…

rejected customary perspectives of epistemology and mysticism. Pragmatism “considers practical consequences or real effects to be vital components of both meaning and truth” (Pragmatism). Pragmatism was founded by a “Metaphysical Club”, consisting of philosophy students from Harvard University (McDermid). They concluded the process of a certain proposition where it is considered practical if it was successful. The term pragmatism, was authored after the Civil War while fluctuating thoughts of…

man is Socrates and his philosophy is based on that wisdom is based on how much a person knows. Since Socrates knew he did not know much, he was very wise according to his daemon because he did not claim to know more than he did. Many people today see Socrates 6as an icon to be cherished forever because of his “wisdom”, but people forget to ask where his moral philosophy comes from. Socratic Piety is the term that shows the influences that Socrates’s God had on moral philosophy and other…

Epictetus is a Greek stoic philosopher who was born as a slave. However, since he got a great chance to study stoic philosophy under Musonius Rufus, he became free from the slave. He later even established a school in Nicopolis in Epirus(Brown). Like Jesus, Epictetus wrote nothing, but his teaching wrote down and published by his disciples in The Enchiridion. Epictetus taught that philosophy is a way of life and not just a theoretical discipline. To Epictetus, all external events are beyond…

Plato was an outstanding and, until this day, a well-known philosopher in the Classical Greece. Also, he is considered to be one of the essential characters within the development of philosophy. He is major influence was his teacher, Socrates, who impressed in him that ‘love of wisdom’ and He passed that onto his own student, Aristotle. Some of Plato’s marvelous works are: Phaedrus, The Symposium and The Allegory of the Cave and the themes depicted in them are freedom (philosophical education),…

Immanuel Kant is a modern philosophical figure who continues to exercise influence today in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics and a significant number of other fields. Freedom is important to Kant's view because moral appraisal presumes that we are free in the sense that we have the ability to do otherwise. To see why, consider Kant's example of a man who commits a theft, Kant holds that in order for this man's action to be morally wrong, it must have been…

According to Immanuel Kant philosophy of ethical formalism the only thing that is good is a "good will". Even if the end of an individual 's action is bad, it still would be considered a moral action along as the individual enter the action with good will. Secondly Kant strongly believed that doing "one 's duty" will be bestow with moral worth. Hypothetical imperatives regard to if one wants to completed a certain task then one needs to do a certain action or steps to complete it. Also…

where their happiness lies, another is it doesn't give us all of our obligations and the lastly, it is concerned more with experiencing then with justice. The needs of happiness ought weigh the needs of the all for a few that aren’t happy. This philosophy goes against the a moral theory. It brings you back to the case of is it morally permissible to break a promise if it determines one’s…