Philosophy

Haberman, 2004). Soren Kierkegaard is recognized as the first modern existentialist even though there is an existential dimension to all religions such as Paul, Augustine, Luther and Pascal in the Christian tradition. Kierkegaard rejected Hegelian’s philosophy, he instead concentrated on what he thought was important which is the individual and their life choices. There are three attitudes which he distinguishes mainly the: aesthetic, the ethical and the religion with religion being the highest…

210, I would have described my philosophies as determinism and idealism. “Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, decision, and action, is casually determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences” (Mastin para. 1). I was very focused on the idea that individual ideas were predetermined and that they were meant to be. With idealism, I truly did believe that my thoughts were formed due to my reality. My conscious choice of these philosophies was due to my environment,…

Personal Philosophy Jennifer Gosha Daniels Post University Personal Philosophy A personal philosophy is unique, tailored to each individual’s lifestyle, outlook on life, and belief system. It’s a person’s motto that they follow in life, such as love conquering all in the world. A personal philosophy can be simple like being kind to others, while another’s may be complicated. No two people’s philosophies will be the same, because no two look at the world surrounding them, in the…

I have been told that a professor of philosophy once said that in the middle ages, there were two rules: one being that the Church was always right; and that two, if in doubt, refer to rule number one. When thinking about this philosophically, we can imagine that if this professor was a theologian, not much would be able to be said as far as its relation to philosophy goes due to the fact that most Christian philosophers believed that philosophy and theology were synonymous. As to whether or not…

Consolation of Philosophy; themes of happiness, virtue, religion and fortune are investigated further to explain the relation of each in a political arena. In The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius deals with the universal experience of suffering. He is imprisoned and facing execution. Boethius blames fortune for the reason of his suffering, “Surely the severity of Fortune’s attack on me needs no further mention” (pg. 9). While Boethius is imprisoned, he gets a visit from Lady Philosophy in…

Descartes aimed to rebuild knowledge and philosophy. The first and primary principle of his methodology was “never accept anything as true that I did not plainly know to be such (Discourse 19).” He believed that a large number of opinions, beliefs, and knowledge of human beings were false, but he could not justify which ones were true or which ones were false because all of knowledge are interacted and correlated with each other. Why are not existed beliefs, opinion, or knowledge true? All of…

20th century, Karl Popper is mostly known for his contribution to philosophy based on his scrutiny on the scientific method. Popper played an important role in combining the work of science and philosophy in attempts to uncover the truth. When Popper becomes a reader in logic and the scientific method is where we begin to see the emergence of the Popper we know, especially in the development of his views regarding science and philosophy. Unlike every scientist, Karl Popper believed that science…

The philosophy of liberalism is the best motivating force for bettering the human condition because it emphasizes the individual over society as a whole. Its central focus is the hope of freedom, individual expression and equality. Other popular terms regarding liberalism include free market, democracy and civil rights. The argument for liberalism grew popular with the coming of the Age of Enlightenment as people longed for more individualism over the tradition authority of monarchs. Of course,…

Descartes and Hegel are both important models in the world of philosophy; particularly they play key roles in trying to make sense of a philosophical God, and his role in our lives. Descartes reasoned that since he does not freely create what is in his consciousness, something else outside of his consciousness and, thus, greater than him must also exist. On the contrary, Hegel’s central philosophy rested on the idea that people have purpose because they have stories. In addition, Hegel believes…

that some of my strongest personal beliefs did not align with my personal philosophy of education. I came into this course as a purist, but I am leaving with a different sense of self. Through careful consideration of many different convictions through out this course I have come to realize although my beliefs all root from the same idea, idealism, the truths of these beliefs lie in different aspects of political philosophy. At this point I feel that I am still discovering my feelings about my…