Philosophy of language

According to Mike Epps, prostitution should not be legalized because it serves no purpose. He is wrong. There are good benefits to legalizing prostitution. Economic gain, lowering contraction of STD’s, and lowering sexual assault against women. Mike Epps believes in his choice against the legalization of prostitution. First, Mike thinks that legalizing prostitution brings with it no economic gain. He says legalizing prostitution will take away the appeal of the act as it will be accepted and…

In ‘Personal Identity’, Derek Parfit presented the idea that being destroyed and replicated is just as good as ordinary survival. This essay will focus on Parfit’s argument of the Branch Line Case and will examine why personal identity matters, a critical perspective and will discuss an objection and respond to the empty question. Parfit argued that being replicated then destroyed resulted in the same outcome as ordinary survival. From the analogy of the Branch Line case, a human body was…

The opinion of what truth is like has been distorted over the years. Then everyone began to develop their own separate view, which snowballed into something called moral relativism. Moral relativism contradicts itself, because nothing is true if everyone thinks something different is true. That is why Catholics believe in moral absolutism, which states that morality relies on universal truths and God is as unchanging as them. These universal principles help guide us to a greater morality and are…

Sartre thinks otherwise, “everything happens to every man as if the entire human race were staring at him and measuring himself by what he does” (Sartre 26), which leads me to defend the practicality of Sartre’s philosophy. Early Sartre was fascinated with America, namely our freedom-bearing constitution, however following World War II and amidst our involvement in Vietnam, he revoked his endorsement. Specifically, Sartre said “in the land of equality and liberty…

People act in benign selfishness. A person wakes up, showers, eats, brushes his teeth, and preforms other activities to take care of himself. If selfishness is focusing on oneself and acting in a way that benefits oneself, then everyone should strive to be selfish. The opposition would argue that if each person acted selfish then the world would be an aggressive campaign to compete and do better against one another. That belief is caused by the word selfish being unclearly defined. Benign…

accounted for and explained in every day experiences or perception. “Kant achieves what he calls a Copernican revolution in philosophy by turning from metaphysical speculation about the nature of reality to a critical examination of the nature of the thinking and perceiving mind” (http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/kant/section1/page/2/). From Kant’s new entity of philosophy we can infer that there are things in the natural world in which we have an innate knowledge, such things may be danger,…

The world of semantics is dominated by two types of naming theories: descriptivist and causal. Defenders of these two theories seem to discredit each other, thinking the world of semantics must choose one or the other. I, however, do not believe this has to be the case. In this essay I will argue that parts of descriptivist and causal theories of names can come together to create a better overall theory of names: a hybrid theory. I will do this by looking at the argument Gareth Evans makes in…

An ethical dilemma is a problem in decision making involving two or more moral imperatives where neither of the options is acceptable unambiguously. The complexity arises because of a situational conflict where selection of one alternative would lead to transgression of the other option. Ethical dilemmas are invoked to refute a moral code or make improvements to it so that a solution can be achieved. Numerous ethical dilemmas are often debated upon from different perspectives with basis of such…

Ethical Communication and Citizenship Minor essay Essay Question: Drawing on the James Hardie Industries case study and relevant theoretical perspectives discussed in Topics 1 and 2, discuss how media releases can be socially complex and ethically problematic for public relations practitioners. In what ways can public relations practitioners uphold high ethical standards when communicating with the media and other audiences when faced with such pressures? Introduction: Rhonda Breit (2007)…

One of the outcomes of the workings of desire is lack of fulfilment and building tension which can lead to the destruction of the subject. In “The Rich Boy” Anson hunter does not marry Paula, but keeps her in his mind as his ideal. By doing so he prolongs the duration of his desire. He is able to function as a successful businessman. When she dies he is broken, all his buoyancy and vitality is transformed “into the fussy pessimism of a man of forty” (RB: 164). The belief that the object of…