Philosophy of education

existence. Nietzsche however claimed that, because God is dead, we no longer have a reason to hold tightly to our morality and as a logical conclusion morality is also dead. Had Nietzsche and Kant been contemporaries, Kant would have found Nietzsche’s philosophy, like utilitarianism, to be lacking a reason for existence outside of a superficial means to be driven by our quest for material, physical pleasure (Velasquez,…

The topic of abortion has been controversial since abortions first started. Everyone seems to have their own opinion based on their ideals and then there are always the odd circumstances. Deontology is an ethical theory that cares only about the motivations of an action. It deals with the motives a person has and whether those intentions are moral or immoral. Also deontology believes that we should resect autonomy which is people’s freedom to choose. I believe that according to Kant it is…

who caught the eyes of many through quick thinking and persuasive rambling? Or maybe, he really was that great knowledgeable speaker destined to introduce the whole concept known as philosophy, who just happened to open the eyes of many; such as Plato and Aristotle. Socrates, now known as the father of western philosophy became most known for the series of events that occurred around the time of his trial. His decision making and quick sly problem solving was the reason that the world remembers…

legacy is survived by the accounts of his disciples. Socrates’ students, however, did more than simply preserve the memory of their teacher. Socrates’ students such as Plato, Xenophon and Aristophanes furthered Socrates’ inchoate introduction to philosophy, transforming it into a legitimate field of study and producing the worlds’ first true philosophical works. The most famous of Socrates’ disciples, Plato, paid homage to him by prominently featuring Socrates in all of his works save the Laws.…

My personal reaction to this film left me feeling both intimidated and anxious. The insight on what law school will be like is no easy reality to face. The films main message clearly establishes that law school involves an immense amount of studying, a finite social life, and lastly a stressful lifestyle. The film portrays this message by revealing the true difficulties and challenges that come about in law school through the perspective of the main character, James Hart, who is a student…

Republic Books VI-VII Relating to Plato’s Approach to Education (Plato’s Pedagogy Relating to Republic VI, VII and Our Own Education) In Plato’s Republic Book VI, Socrates speaks about the philosopher king and in Book VII he tells the Allegory of the Cave, both relate to the education of the republic or of the group. When Socrates is speaking of the philosopher king in Book VI, he tells his students about the order of education and how to thin out the group into the society’s different groups…

François-Marie Arouet, one of France’s greatest Enlightenment writers, better known by his pen name Voltaire, wrote the satirical novella Candide that targets the church, nobility, and the French government. It was first published in January or February of 1759 by numerous publishers including Gabriel Cramer, MArc Michel Rey, Jean Nourse, Lambert and others. This book was chosen for me to critique because Voltaire is one of the philosophers that we are currently learning about in class. This…

Along with Socrates, Plato continued building philosophy around the conception of the divine attributes of the universe, termed ideal forms by Socrates. These ideas resembled the Pre-Socratic notions of the mind, being, and logos. The search for reality requires intense contemplation and intuition, years of study, and mastery on the nature of the universe, the shape of the world, the soul and its immortality, human thought, psychology, and politics, but they lacked the empirical focus that…

Name: Course: Title: Date: KANT’S GROUNDING FOR THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS 1. Deontology is the view of the act to be moral or not moral from the action done. In deontology, the consequences that an action may impact to individuals are not considered but rather, the logic behind the action is determined. Consequences should not be used to justify the good in any action, “a good will is not good because of what it effects or accomplishes” (Ross 33). Such action should arise from the duty, and law…

Ethical decision making is a part of life and provides a glance of an individual’s character. This document centers on the decision that Lauren was required to reach regarding a quality management issue that arisen during testing of a client’s product. It provides a brief account of the problem and the systematic phases that were in use to derive a decision of what course to follow. To formulate this decision a framework was utilized that outlined what questions needed to be answered. These…