Philosophy of history

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…

empiricism arguing that knowledge exists both a priori and a posteriori; that is through experience (sensible intuition) and independent of experience. In doing so, Kant hopes to get closer to a formal system and/or science of philosophy. Insofar as establishing philosophy as a science is possible, Kant believed that this system could stem from a small set of mutually dependent principles. After having been influenced by Karl Leonhard Reinhold, post-Kantians attempt to derive the same from a…

manifested in a teacher’s education philosophy, or “the principles that guide professional action.”(Parkay, 2015, p.114) A teacher creates his or her philosophy by examining his/her beliefs in a variety of categories, like what a teacher’s role should be, what a student’s role should be, and what should be taught. When the teacher has thoroughly examined his/her educational views, they have generated their educational philosophy. There are five main philosophies of education, two of which are…

individuals and topics, which have had an immense influence on molding western civilization. It has been built upon the achievements of history’s greatest leaders, ideas and documents. The most important, however, was that of Greek mythology, the philosophies of Socrates, and Augustine’s, Confessions. From the beginning of the belief in higher powers, to the philosophical advances and growth of religion, it is inevitable that these topics have been able to provide pathways to the structure of…

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but is a habit.” –Aristotle. In this quote, Aristotle is describing what it takes to be at the top at what you’re doing, similar as to what he did in almost every subject he studied. An attitude similar to the one he portrayed in the quote above is the reason…

Bootstrap philosophy is a philosophy that asserts the universal interconnectedness of all things, especially the connections and inter-dependence of all elementary particles. It was introduced by the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead in his publication ‘Process and Reality’. At the time of the writing, elementary particle physics did not yet exist. Whitehead only applied this philosophy to biology. In the mathematics of computer science, this bootstrap philosophy is equivalent to feedback loops…

Jessica Hernandez PHI 16 Chatham Lovette October 30, 2017 Nietzsche Prompt 1 Philosophy: An Illness of the Mind One of the most provocative thinkers in Western philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche challenges previous philosophies to be an illness of the mind. He argues that their suffering led them to uphold objective truths as a cure to their illness, which doesn’t in fact help them regain their health. Nietzsche argues that philosophers and religious thinkers are not all that different when it…

Plato, and Aristotle are known as the most influential philosophers in Greek history, this seeking of knowledge that categorized the ancient Greeks did not seize after their deaths. The Greek desire for knowledge carried on into the Hellenistic period: the period between the death of Alexander the Great and the Battle of Actium. The Hellenistic period marked the emergence of new schools of thought. The predominant philosophies of the time were known as the Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the…

All through history, there have been numerous doctrines and frameworks for belief systems. Many of these ancient belief systems such as the Greek, “Polytheistic Gods” were not around long, as they could not gain the support to sustain existence and ultimately, they disappeared over the years. Some such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism have lived on and had impacts and effects on the lives of individuals and have stood the trials of time. These beliefs influenced culture and spread as…

MacIntyre in his book Ethics in the Conflict of Modernity. I will use the other philosophers as the occasion arises as I provide support for my own account of moral choice-making by expressivist and aristotelian views that dominate contemporary moral philosophy. In this essay I will like to examine the views of Expressivism and Aristotelianism and determine if it is possible or not to align these two autonomous views and confirm their abilities to act in accordance of one another. I shall…