knowledge from its experiences than the Master, although the Master has gained the authoritarian position. Therefore, they are both successful but also must admit defeat in some way such as losing independence as the Master does. However, an obvious objection towards this could be that the Master has still won and has ultimate authority over the slave. In response to this it can be argued that as the slave forfeited the battle, the master did not truly win. I will use reference to the Master and…
requirements. After the Hobby Lobby case, the department of Health and Human Services (HHS) created some accommodations for certain non-profit organizations stating that they may opt out from providing contraceptive coverage by certifying their religious objection. By receiving the certification, they will be opted out from funding the contraceptive coverage but organization’s insurance company or its third-party administrator will step in, to provide the coverage. In 2014, the government…
The essay regarding evil and its relation to free will entitled “The Argument from Evil” by Peter Van Inwagen proposes many questions and contradictions. All of which relate back to one principle idea—the problem of evil and how to solve it. At the end of his compilation of ideas, propositions and examples, Van Inwagen poses a slew of questions for his readers to ponder and attempt to answer. Peter Van Inwagen is adamant upon insisting that there both is and is not a God. He proposes this as he…
In The Symposium, Diotima asserted that the Form of Beauty contained four main particular intrinsic features. I will begin by explaining the four main features of Beauty itself . I will also explain the relation between the Form of Beauty and beautiful things. The first attribute Diotima asserted for the Form of Beauty was immortality and invariableness. Diotima claimed that Beauty itself ‘does not come into being or perish, nor does it grow or waste away’ (211a). Beauty itself has no…
The Ontological Argument and Pascal’s Wager The “Ontological Argument” was created by Saint Anselm; this argument is in support of God’s existence. His argument is one based on observation and reason not on empirical evidence and is spit in to three parts. The parts include why god exists, why god cannot be thought to not exist, and lastly why atheists are able to think that God does not exist. In the first section he begins with a definition of God that he believes everyone would be accepting…
As a member of the country of Eggonia 's Grand Council on Ethics and as a human, Eggonia obligated to send famine relief to the neighboring country of Furesia. Every living creature on Earth has correlation to other living things and has the mentality to help each other. According to me, helping others is an obligation which we have to follow and a law of nature. Sending famine relief to Furesia can save many lives and Eggonians are the cause of Furesian undergoing a devastating famine that cost…
For this, to have the stand objection that enlighten the dis-analogy between a craftsman and a universe-producer is become the noteworthy. There is no exclusively based on the further analogy that the universe maker have the past limits over the conceivable experienceand there are some…
In the article “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Hardin focuses on the problem of increasing population growth which he relates to a “tragedy of the commons.” His definition of the “tragedy of the commons” is when there is a resource that is shared with many people having access to it, people, who are generally self-interested and rational, will choose to maximize their profit because they will receive all of the benefit while not having to bear the full cost. Hardin gives an example with the…
Nel Noddings has a very unique position on influencing students. Based on feminist backgrounds and ideals, she talks about an alternative path to teaching ethics to students in the classroom. She calls this position “care-ethics” which involves the teacher entering into a very specific relationship with his or her students by focusing on the relational ethics between the teacher and the student (Thomsen- Noddings). We as teachers and educators are responsible for being “caregivers” for our…
return back to our roots and live back in the primitive state of nature. These seem like very radical ideas in today’s society but back in the nineteenth century many saw it as the more beneficial plan. Although Marx and the romantic poets have many objections…