Philosophy of life

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 Epistemology, the…

understand the true concept of eudaimonia in our everyday lives, and how living a virtuous life will impact an everyday person. While some might argue how Aristotle’s works actually influenced some of St. Augustine’s writings through a common admiration to Plato, their conflicting ideas regarding the reasoning for living a virtuous life and the purpose of a supreme being, or a supreme good, separated these two philosophies to act as conflicting works. To Aristotle, this “good” was the human…

who called themselves wise were not actually very wise, their knowledge was based on ignorance thinking that they were wise and he wanted to help them see that true knowledge was knowing nothing rather than believing that they know everything. As philosophy is based on questioning everything, he…

Voltaire's "Candide" and Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther". The topic of living a fully realized, enlightened life to produce happiness and satisfaction and that would benefit the self and others comes up frequently in the two stories. In Candide, Voltaire's reoccurring quote is "everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." This is the basic idea of the philosophies of Enlightenment thinkers. To these thinkers, the idea that there was any evil any the world would be…

Levitt Mr. Eddlem US History H1 2-18-16 Ralph Waldo Emerson and G.K. Chesterton were both important American author’s. Both of them wrote about religion in their writings Orthodoxy (Chesterton) and Self-Reliance (Emerson). However, the views and philosophies expressed in the writings oppose each other in many ways. Each author had other accomplishments besides these two pieces of literature, but these two will be focused on as they express the discussed view-points. While both men were regarded…

bring them a better life. Because the wrongness of his theft conflicts with the goodness of its benefits, Prometheus’ actions can have vastly different moral interpretations based on the ethical philosophy applied. Christian…

believed in two different states that each person has; the Good and the End (“Moral Philosophy”). When describing the Good, Socrates explains that people unconsciously do things that make them happy and that physical objects make one feel satisfied at the same time (“Moral Philosophy”). The whole idea of the Good is that humans act in a positive way and that they just want to live a happy and meaningful life (Moral Philosophy”). Happiness is the one thing all humans want to have in their lives…

What best describes me in the moral philosophy when making conclusions that best represents my personal and workplace when making decisions is Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is defined as an individual decides on decisions based on everyone. “Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism because it rests in the mind that it is the consequences or results of actions, laws, policies, and so on that define whether they are good or bad, correct or wrong” (Fieger, 2014). Agreeing to our text…

together they had entered the Stanza della Segnatura library of Pope Julius II. On opposite walls they would have seen two contrasting fresco masterpieces of the young Renaissance painter Raphael: “The School of Athens” representing the discipline of philosophy and “La Disputa” representing the theme of theology. Their first impression would be that “The School of Athens” vividly symbolizes an embodiment of Renaissance values in an incompatible…

compares various different philosophical ideas through many of the main characters, each embodying the essence of a specific philosophy. Two of the main philosophical ideas that Dostoevsky discusses in this novel are Utilitarianism and its sub-philosophy, Hedonism. Utilitarianism attempts to distinguish between the moralities of right and wrong, good and bad. The axiom of this philosophy is the concept that the good is pleasure and the bad is pain. It is defined as the sum of all pleasure that…