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    A Comparison of Medina and Nietzsche’s Philosophy The philosophies of Jose Medina and Friedrich Nietzsche differ in the sense that Medina focuses on the epistemic injustice while Nietzsche focuses on deconstructing morality. Medina explores injustice in society with the goal of finding factors that contribute to its existence. In essence, the philosopher believes morality to be a noble human virtue, and a factor that can be used to eliminate social injustices. However, due to social beliefs that…

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    Indian Philosophy in Deleuze’s ‘Body without Organs’ I. Introduction – Brian Massumi rightly spells out the Deleuzian philosophy when he calls it ‘self-problematizing’; always confronting the reader with the question of what it is all about, and what to do with it. It challenges the reader to do something with it. It is pragmatic, not dogmatic. Pierre Hadot attributes this distinction between discourse about philosophy and philosophy itself to Stoics: ‘For the Stoics, the parts of…

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    Piety In Plato's Republic

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    In Plato’s Republic, the contention starts with the conversation and introduction of the characters whom serves as a representation of a member of the society. Nevertheless, it started with the thought of Socrates relating piety and philosophy. And to that, the abandonment of Cephalus at the start dont signifies quitting, otherwise it shows relevance as to how Plato wants to represent piety. As the conversation progress, perceptions revealed some paragons to represent what is good, in relevance…

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    before the introduction of the rule of law, and as a state where there are no rights but only freedoms. In such a world where there are no laws, government, and power the people are in a natural condition of humankind. (munro, 2015). In addition, the state of nature is a concept in moral and political philosophy used in religion, social contract theories and international law to denote the hypothetical conditions of what the lives of people might have been like before societies came into…

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    Philosophy, in its simplest form is the pursuit of wisdom (merriam-webster.com). Throughout the ages, the world has seen many philosophers pursue this wisdom in many forms. Men like Plato, Aristotle and Socrates were all incredibly popular. With works such as the Apology Phaedo Symposium Republic by Plato and the whole idea of logic itself, it’s no wonder. Socrates in particular is incredibly well known. He was the teacher of many highly regarded men like Plato.Men who went on to teach people…

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    Socrates Vs Plato

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    examination because the “unexamined life is not worth living”. For Plato, philosophy is a process of constant questioning, and questioning necessarily takes the form of dialogue. Plato believed there is a never ending, unchanging form for everything in the natural world that exists in the world of ideas. The core components of any philosophical system are metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that explores fundamental questions, such as the…

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    World History And Philosophy

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    History and Philosophy: Final Paper INTRODUCTION In the beginning, man had thoughts. He had a view of the world and he had God to walk alongside him and shape his ideas. However, there would come a time where God would no longer come down to speak directly to man and his heart. Looking through history, one can observe that men began to have new and different ideas from what God had originally intended. Man began to try to make sense of the world, of his feelings, and of God. Philosophy was…

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    Kantian Revolution Summary

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    Theses stated in the first sentence of the citation stems from the view which has come to be regarded as traditional in philosophy, namely that the notion of truth is independent of human ways of conceptualizing. First philosopher to elucidate the untenable consequences of this traditional belief was Immanuel Kant. By doing so, he laid the foundations of the contemporary debate…

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    Cleanthes Vs Demea Essay

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    Philosophy Final Paper In this paper, I will argue that Philo offers better arguments for explanation of God’s existence than Demea and Cleanthes. During Hume’s days, the 1700s, science was not very advance and many philosophical arguments were based off of empirical observations. This paper contains information regarding how the argument between the three panned out and contains my thoughts on the conversation. While I do not have all the answers on these matters, I will provide my views and…

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    Ethics is very important it concern of the branch of philosophy, ethics, “seeks to understand and determine how human actions can be judged as right or wrong” (Soe.syr.edu, 2018). As human being we make ethical judgement by using our own experience and we also base ethical judgement upon the nature or it also could be the principle of the reason. People who study ethics have a strong believe that ethical decision has be made on the based of theory. The first theory that will be introducing to is…

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