Philosophy of language

defend tolerance as a result of the mistakes from the different wars of religion. It is in this perspective that John Locke wrote his Letter on Tolerance, and I am going to try to analyse it. This Letter is part of the field of moral and political philosophy and its purpose is about religious tolerance. According to the Oxford dictionary, toleration is: ‘’The practice of tolerating something, in particular differences of opinion or behaviour’’.…

De Ira Seneca’s Lesson of Life The dominant philosophy of the Hellenistic period was Stoicism, influenced by Epicureanism. As one might remember, these two philosophical doctrines have similarities, however, three fundamental differences emerge. Epicureanism says that the world has origin from the chance, while Stoicism believes that the world is driven by a logos, divine reason that acts providentially on the world and not by chance. The Epicurean makes happiness coincide with secluded life,…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said ,“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” A quote spoken in the 1950’s, consisting of many different meanings can be looked at in multiple ways. To me, it means that fighting can’t solve every problem, even if it is faster and the simple way out. Some writing pieces that can relate with this statement are gun violence in the United States, Night by Elie Wiesel, and the history of…

Can one truly know happiness if one has not seen misery? It is not possible for us to understand the full scope of our contentment, the privileges present within our lives, if we have no melancholy or sorrow to compare it to. Our perceptions of a range, a scale of joy can never be developed or measured, if there is no variance within our lives. If all the colours within our palate are colourful we would never be able to understand its contrast to dullness, never be able to understand the value…

Prattima Ramnarine English Life of Pi quote analysis Thesis: The author Yann Martel uses language and technique in the novel Life of Pi to suggests that morality is a social construct, and when it comes to survival, we abandon our beliefs and values. Arguments: 1. Piscine Patel was an innocent boy who wanted to try new things such as practicing three religions. 2. Piscine gave up mortality and made survival his number one priority. 3. Piscine abandoned the Rickard Park side of him when he…

the end would be to help other children. Doing so makes such an act immoral. This would be the case if the term humanity applies to Baby Angela. In “Kant’s Formula of Humanity,” Christine M. Korsgaard, an American philosopher and a professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, states: “When Kant says that the characteristic of humanity is the power to set an end, then, he is not merely referring to personality, which would encompass the power to adopt an end for moral or sufficient reasons.…

The true meaning of love is a topic that has been debated about since ancient times and Plato’s Symposium is one text that deals with the problem of defining love. In Plato’s “Symposium”, seven Greek philosophers take turns debating the meaning of love at a dinner party. Each philosopher has a different point of view and opinion of what love is and why we desire love. This text is extremely influential still to this very day, as it raises important questions about love that are significant to…

become a better person by overcoming all the challenges in his life. When Louis was younger,he used to get bullied. “His peers mocked his Italian accent, and got hit, kicked, and thrown stones at him to get him to curse in his parents’ native language- an outburst which would…

The Good Will, as described by Kant, is the aspect or capacity of human persons to choose on the basis of the dignity of all human persons which ultimately derives from reason, our most distinctive human capacity. Dewey believes in the idea of Moral Maturity, that people become responsible for others and treat them a particular way. It becomes difficult for someone to be Morally Mature if they do not have a clear distinction between right and good. The idea of what is right is often taught to us…

Stoic vs Aristotle I believe that Aristotle would disagree with the two Stoic teachings discussed on the handout. The first Stoic teaching mentioned in the handout deals with virtue and vice. The teaching states that virtue is the only true good and vice the only true evil. The first teaching also states that things such as money, pleasure, pain, hunger, food, etc. are neutral, and are to be treated with indifference. The second Stoic teaching mentioned in the handout deals with the virtuous…