Philosophy of history

Liberalism is a political philosophy associated with the American Enlightenment that is founded upon the ideas of equality and liberty. Thomas Jefferson felt very strongly about human rights, and often fought for them in the early development in American government. Jefferson believed…

She proposed that science analyze: (a) existing social norms and their history, (b) the psychology of morality, and the way that individuals interact with moral matters and prescriptions, and (c) the sociology of morality.[11] Popular literature[edit] The theory and methods of a normative science of morality are explicitly discussed…

As one said at the star of the essay, our aim was to show that hegel was mirroring the way he believes history to progress within his dialog; meaning that he was just going through the motions in introducing sense certainty as part of the self consciousness, as a means to the end of introducing the notion of Spirit, which is Hegel 's own addition to the epistemological…

express their respect for Henry David Thoreau in an except of their writing from “Passive Resisters” and “A Centenary Gathering for Henry David Thoreau.” In their writings, there is also a relevance towards transcendentalism. Transcendentalism is a philosophy that our knowledge of reality is based on our own understanding rather than scientific evidence. Thoreau was a transcendentalist himself. Thoreau and his ideology influenced Gandhi and King in their own movements. Gandhi lead a nonviolent…

Jennifer Orrostieta Humanities 1301 04/25/15 Final Essay One of the greatest philosophers who changed Greek philosophy was Socrates (93). He is one of the most important figures in Greek history (93). Socrates life and his ways of teaching inspired not only the Greeks but also it inspired how philosophers think now and days (93). Socrates was born in 469 BCE he was the son of a sculptor and a midwife (93). Socrates had said he kind of followed in his mother’s profession he was a midwife to…

What is human identity; is it a characteristic defined by humanism, interpreted into arbitrary degrees of humanity or rather is it the manifestation, or possession of a soul, of divinity? If such defines our identity, then is being human an inherited genetic attribute or is it a state we achieve through rationality derived from knowledge and wisdom? Identity, however, is not always stable; it can be interpreted as a dynamic balance between humanity’s divine and animalistic personas – a debate of…

Will Durant, an American writer, historian, and philosopher, once said, “Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.” Ayn Rand uses science and reasoning as the basis for her own belief system that she created called Objectivism; she uses her philosophy to create works of literature such as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead that have long stood the test of time. In The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand uses pivotal points throughout the novel to illustrate Objectivism. The first major theme in…

Pierre Bourdieu’s “The Peculiar History of Scientific Reason” is a brief article full of lengthy words and complex notions. Throughout the paper, Bourdieu seems to be making multiple arguments when he is in fact making a single assertion: despite the preferred view that science is created in a vacuum, there are numerous social factors that define the essence and history of science, and the study of these social definitions is perhaps the best way for sociologists to discover the nature of social…

Throughout the history of philosophy and the search for wisdom in life there are moments where reasoning leads the self to a path that one cannot fully give oneself to. Here is, in a sense, the crux of an internal existential conflict. In these times people typically would choose between two equally difficult decisions, either to side with pure reason and have that solely guide oneself through life, even if it means that one no longer believes that anything else in existence truly exists without…

Socrates. Similar to his other works, Crito centers around Socrates, and his thoughts and philosophies. To truly understand what Plato was writing about in Crito is important to understand the reasons behind Socrates’ death sentence. Socrates was a man of thought, and much of the time there was both a lesson and a reason behind his actions. When Socrates first appeared on philosophical scene in Athens, philosophy was undergoing some big changes. Up until around 450 B.C., philosophers were…