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    Eighteenth century Europe can be described as being in a transitory state of philosophy and politics. The Enlightenment was meant to give the individual the tools to better understand the world around them through spiritualty, philosophy, science or a combination there of. However the discourse and teachings of this archetypical narrative were far from monolithic in nature. The quest for knowledge resulted in the mass creation of theoretical explanations for issues such as morality, class…

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    addition to the litany of ideas and thoughts he contributed to the eternally evolving world of philosophy, Marx is also a premiere example of how philosophers build of one another’s work. Marx drew from many of his predecessors, but there were two in particular that influenced Marx tremendously. Both Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Charles Darwin, made astronomical impacts on Karl Marx’s belief system and philosophy, and undoubtedly prove that prior philosophers have and always will influence…

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    Charity Huggins Professor Paul Carrick Philosophy 101 17 November 2014 Why I Think Plato Is One Of The Greats (1) What intrigues you about this philosopher you have chosen? With the title “Philosopher King” and being the first archetype I had ever studied in my philosophical endeavors, Aristocles (but from here on out shall be recognized as Plato) captivated me from the beginning, and he captivates me nonetheless. Being fresh with curiosity and a sponge-like disposition, I soaked up the many…

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    (1781/1787) sparked a new movement among many European philosophers, known as the age of German Idealism. Names such as Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel are all in the realm of German Idealism, each bringing their own ideas to complete the system of philosophy itself, and specifically destroy, defend, or further develop the concept of human rationalism. There is an agglomeration of world-renowned philosophers in the era of German Idealism, but this essay will focus on only two, Johann Gottlieb…

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    typical mentors. Pangloss knows little about the structure of the world since he lived only an idle life inside a castle. Candide has never had a direct experience with the outside world. Therefore, he without any question believes in Pangloss’s philosophy. Candide is incredibly gullible, faithful, idealistic, and innocent to an extreme level. He believes and accepts Pangloss’s overrated optimistic worldview. Moreover he blindly continues to hold to it through a dam of executions, gauntlets,…

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    ethical philosophy of Japanese feudalism called Bushido code, literally translates into the way of the warrior. The code controls the behavior and protocol of the military guards of the shogun known as Samurai. The book of the samurai, Hagakure, written by Yamamoto Tsunetomo claimed that Bushido code is frequently been compared to the code of chivalry of the European knights with the similar aim to provide a code of honor and rules for living for the country’s armed forces. The philosophy of…

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    social Anthropologist that was known for relating Moral Philosophy and Religion systematically with Social Behavior. He was distinctly Humanist, associating with the ideas of structural-functionalism and cultural translation.“The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events” In this article Evans-Pritchard is breaking down the Azande’s philosophy on Witchcraft. This is so he can understand the rationality that is behind such a philosophy even though these are intelligent people. The purpose…

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    Alyckssa Maye J. Castaños Philosophy 15 - AGA I am a Questioning Being: One who wants, to know, and one who acts upon knowing Humans when exposed to similar triggering factor do not necessarily have similar response because interpretations of the trigger may vary according to his/her analysis, exposure, culture, values and other factors. These are all because humans are rational beings, we’re thinking beings. One of the principles of Rene Descartes is “cogito, ergo sum” ― “I think…

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    Critique of Reason Through a Nietzschean Lens Reason has arguably been the driving force behind most popular philosophies since the peak of the Greco-Roman era thousands of years ago. The works of philosophers of reason, like Plato, who Nietzsche fervently critiques, have laid the groundwork for many of his ideological successors to proving reason to be the ultimate goal of all philosophy - a way to explain the unknown world and utilize knowledge as a means to quantify and qualify existence.…

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    Human Sciences is to answer whether the philosophy of history can provide knowledge of socio-historical reality as a whole. The philosophy of history is a theory that attempts to know the interconnectedness of historical reality through a correspondence with the unity of interconnected propositions (Dilthey, pg. 142). Gaining knowledge of the interconnectedness of the whole of history is his distinctive task, and he comes to the conclusion that the philosophy of history is not successful. The…

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