Philosophical logic

Albert Camus addresses the steps one should take when dealing with the notion of absurdity in order to make the choice to live without appeal. In the Myth of Sisyphus, Camus defines the clash between the irrational world and humans seeking for rational answers as absurdity. He then outlines the best solution for acknowledging the lack of meaning in life while not turning to suicide. There are many parallels to his reasoning in The Plague, where he uses the threat of sickness in a quarantined…

I believe that God allows evil to exist for reasons that we do not understand, but I also believe that he was not the one who created it. I believe that God created man, and that man created evil. According to the bible, God The reason as to why God allows evil may never be known, but others have arrived at the conclusion that God must want to teach people a lesson. Another theory is that he literally cannot or will not do anything to stop evil from happening because he gave us free will.…

Descartes has written six meditations on First Philosophy, with some being more important than the other. The third meditation does seem to stand out among the rest as the most important. The goal of this meditation is to find out if there is a God and whether or not God is a deceiver. After reading the third meditation, you take a step back to realize the importance of what the meditation had uncovered. There are different types of Ideas, which might not seem so important to the whole…

Many wonder what is the root of all evil and most conclude that people are simply innately evil or have a darkness in them that is waiting to show itself. The topic of evil and where it really comes from has caused a debate among many people who take a variety of stances. One such person, William Golding, writes a novel called Lord of the Flies to display his position on the topic of evil. Through his character’s in Lord of the Flies, Golding conveys his opinion that humans are born with natural…

In Boethius’s second commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge he discusses and attempts to answer some of the questions Porphyry poses in his work. These questions have according to Boethius “been attempted by learned men, but have not been solved by many of them” (20). The questions were whether or not Universals are subsistent or only in understanding, if they are subsistent are they corporeal or incorporeal in nature, and finally if they are separate from or component in the objects they classify. In…

Mr.Hoo killed Sam Westing. Mr Westing stole his disposable diaper idea and made millions, but it was Mr.Hoo’ s idea. Which made Mr.Hoo get mad at Sam Westing, and being mad is a good motive to kill someone. Mr.Hoo is a mean man. Mr.Hoo is jealous of Mr.westing because he did not make millions of dollars. Mr.Hoo is poor and must work. Mr.Hoo behaves in an abusive manner by insulting him. If Mr.Hoo is abusive and insulting he may have killed Sam Westing. This shows that he is a mean…

Onto the actual title of the poem, “Power.” Is power a force for good? Can it be possible, or is it corrupt by nature? Whether power is good or not depends on who holds it. As Rich illustrates in her poem, power can be good for others but could be damaging to oneself. Power, however, cannot be possessed–but instead it can posses. With the words of Michel Foucault to back this up, power is not a possession, rather, it is the relationship between entities that determines knowledge and discourse to…

Ways to gain power have been seen throughout history. The three main ways to obtain power is through race, gender and social class. To have power is to control one's own life as well as the lives of others. The idea of power is discussed in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Mayella Ewell is a poor white woman who accuses a black man of raping and beating her. Mayella is powerful in regards to her race; however, she is not powerful in regards to gender and social class. Since…

in rationalism and empiricism can be found in the 17th century, during a time when various significant developments were made in the fields of astronomy and mechanics. These advancements undoubtedly led to the questions that probed the sudden philosophical argument: What do we truly know? Many people throughout history began to question whether science was really providing them with the true knowledge of reality. As a result of these questions, the two schools of philosophy were formed. Rene…

The inductivists held that mathematical truths were simply an extension of empirical science; mathematical truths are simply highly probable rather than certain. Hempel defends a view known as logicism: mathematical truths are analytic truths of logic. This paper will analyze both viewpoints in order to demonstrate logicism's superiority. The paper will begin with dismissing the notion…