Philosophy of love

Describe Jeremy Bentham’s philosophy of utilitarianism. What does his calculus entail? What ethical implications of his theory may help us make decisions about both individual and social action? Jeremy Bentham advocated for social reform and questioned the old-fashioned moral values…

Compare and Contrast Essay Freud/Marx and Tillich/Bultramm Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud are two prominent thinkers. Marx and Freud both believe religion is the godparent of the financial and social system. Marx believes that religion is the opiate of the people. This means that religion is like a strong narcotic drug that dulls the senses of pain, and offers comfort to people in suffering. Sigmund Freud believes that religion as a neurosis and its diagnosis in “The Future of an Illusion” (1927).…

major theme and problem in Marx's philosophy. Alienation, or estrangement, of people from aspects of their human nature, Gattungswesen, is a consequence of living in a society or community that is stratified into social classes, particularly the bourgeois and the proletariate. This…

famous philosophers of all time. Being the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, he read and studied in the area of philosophy in the middle of the fourth century B.C.E in Greece. He was influenced by many other famous philosophers but Socrates has the biggest impact on his life. Plato is known for many works such as Republic where his work blended political philosophy, ethics, and metaphysics. Plato is also widely known for his theory of Form where he explains that the world that we…

This week I have read Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, as well as Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life. I read the first chapter of each of these pieces. A lot of the ideas and comments about the nature of reality made in Guy Debord’s piece remind me a lot of science fiction author Douglas Adams writings, specifically his two books about Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. There is one line specifically in Debord’s piece about how the spectacle “interrelates and…

Plato's Allegory of the Cave. What I intend to talk about is Allegory of the cave, and what is the meaning around the theory. Human perception, to get real or true knowledge, we must achieve this through philosophical reasoning. Because knowledge gained by your senses is not real knowledge. And in the allegory of the cave, what’s the difference between sensory knowledge and finding the truth philosophically. And we start with the prisoners that are bounded in the cave. They cannot move, look to…

participated in the development of the philosophy of personal idealism. In addition, he published a volume of university sermons and wrote in defence of Anglican clergymen who did not assent to literal interpretation of every article in the creed. His Idea of Atonement in Christian Theology (Bampton Lectures, 1919) gave him a place in theology as well as in history and philosophy. The justification of man Rashdall interpreted as the end-kindling in him of the love of god, which expresses itself…

Against the men of knowledge who are ignorant of themselves, the philosopher-physician-genealogist envisioned by Nietzsche is a lover - someone for whom philosophy is not primarily a body of knowledge, but a kind of eros, a transformative attitude, a militancy born out of love and devotion for truth . Accordingly, as Richard Schacht remarks, when we address Nietzsche on morality, we better ought to remember how ‘his attempted “overcoming of morality”[…] is more…

Ethics as a theme of philosophy, explores the right or wrong in the actions a person chooses to do. The philosophy of moral ethics will be evaluated in both, Albert Camus’ “The Stranger,” and Dostoevsky’s “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man.” This theme of ethics will be analyzed throughout the evaluation of societal interactions, thoughts, and the author's presentation of the protagonist in each work. In “The Stranger” by Albert Camus, the main protagonist, Meursault, provides a narrative…

about the meaning of the quote by Mf. Arrupe, many thoughts and questions come to my mind. Firstly, am I the one who lives for others? Or am I the “other” for whom someone should live? At the same time, what can love of self or for god being farce mean? Alternatively, how can education affect love? Analyzing the quote turned out to be challenging, because the message the quote carries is extremely hard to express and even harder to deeply internalize. As one part of the sentence became clear,…