Philosophy of history

Scholars sometimes struggle to assimilate history through only archeological and geological evidence. With the evolution of human history and the invention of writing, historians find a more facility in studying the civilizations that kept written records in terms of reassembling past events and having a more scrupulous understanding of early civilizations, no more based on assumptions. Written work, however, generated a new problem to historians: reliability. To know what is accurate in old…

The idea that history is a competition between culture with a dominant winner is true and has been proven for centuries no matter which way it is looked at, but cultural synthesis is inevitable to come in any situation. Saying one side is less prevalent than the other is contradicting because there will always be a natural obligation among humans that is centered around the need for being the best. Seeing that this is true, history is a product of cultural synthesis despite the competition found…

Sophie’s World is a novel of philosophy and how it has evolved throughout history. Some of the main points are fate, religion, history, Hegel’s view of history, and summarizing what is happening in the novel. The philosophy of Sophie’s World helps Sophie to grow in knowledge, and help her to view the world in a different way. The history of philosophy is used to further Sophie Amundsen’s knowledge of the world around her. Sophie’s World is a novel about a young girl who is starting to find her…

The ancient Western world was a world filled with awe and wonder. Never once was there ever a sense of doing something solely for the sake of doing it. During this time, anything that was done was done to the pleasure (or displeasure) of the gods. The gods were treated with the utmost respect in the ancient world. These ancient civilizations are so interesting to us because they are so different us. The way the members of the ancient West lived out their daily lives was quite different to how we…

this magnificent time period. Democracy, medication and such arts like poetry were all introduced in this exquisite era in history. Advances in literature and architecture also arose but arguably one of the most influential establishment from Ancient Greece was that of the beginning of philosophy. No one had more of an influential hand than the founder of Western Philosophy. Socrates was a controversial figure of his time and his treasonous questions stirred the everyday lives of Greece citizens…

Bristow, William, "Enlightenment", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2017/entries/enlightenment/ This article is about the enlightenment and the reasoning behind it.It is split up into 3 segments, The science, the politics, and and the “aesthetics”. The first part of the article talks about Locke’s essay and how his thoughts influenced people to start questioning religion. The second part of the article…

Macintyre’s arguments contribute a view of the virtues that recognizes shortcomings of modern society and incorporates a history of virtues. His argument presents concepts to the philosophical world that stimulate a discussion of what our modern conception of morality and virtue consists of. A main point that MacIntyre raises throughout his book is the idea of modern society losing virtues and the decay of the language of morality. He backs this up by giving examples of moral debates that…

Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason played a significant role in the world of philosophy. Some people would argue that Kant was a philosophical genius, but others would argue that he failed to lay a proper foundation of philosophy. Several German philosophers responded to his work and some even devoted their writings strictly to offering a response to the Critique. Even though these philosophers agreed on a few things regarding philosophy, they did not agree on everything. Johann Gottlieb Fichte and…

could say has so-shaped the cultural and intellectual development of the world that, without him, history would be profoundly different. He was the inspiration for Plato, the thinker widely held to be the founder of the Western philosophical tradition and contradicting some situations people might know the truth but refuse to prove it like with Socrates in Plato’s Apology. Socrates clearly took philosophy seriously and his own awareness of ignorance frees him from what Russell would refer to as…

Metaphysics and Epistemology The history of philosophy begins with the Pre-Socratic period. The period is named because it was the period before the philosopher Socrates was born. The philosophers that lived during the Pre-Socratic period came up with the idea of metaphysics. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of reality. Socrates was born in 471 BC and brought an end to the Pre-Socratic period and brought the beginning to many new branches of philosophy such as…