Platonism

The increased sense of conflict between the people and the society in which they lived in was what marked the development into the 19th century. When a sense of community and togetherness is deteriorating, the affirmation of the people inclines and when people become expected to exist outside their positions in society, a conflict between the individual and society as a whole arises; a reason of this newfound concept of individuality. The idea of having a “pecking order” and definitive social…

Saint Augustine (d. 430) was one of the most influential members of the early Christian church. He was skilled at oration, learned in the liberal arts, and was fond of the philosophies of Neo-Platonism. In the year 397, Augustine began the work Confessions, an autobiography, which depicted his conversion to Christianity. His conversion to Christianity follows the path of one searching for truth. His account in Confessions relies heavily on the Bible. Throughout his life, the Bible meant…

Leibniz's intellectual training was objectively in the tradition scholasticism and Renaissance humanism; his background, in the past, was of Aristotelianism, Platonism, and orthodox Christianity. Leibniz defined his theory along with the idea that the God who he believed to avoid all theology and philosophy was a kind God and would balance the world appropriately with both Good and evil, maximizing the condition…

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter describes southern Gothic Tradition started in the southern U.S. States dating mostly from the 20th century. While Marxism continues to be studied in the United States today, its heyday in America was during the period of 1930s. Carson McCullers, along with other literary intellectuals of the 1930s, found herself absorbed in conversation in which Marx was the main topic. The Marxist ideas, she and her contemporaries passionately discussed are present in her first…

One potential way meant to resolve this problematic ontology is Allison 's two aspect view. Instead of there being an ontological distinction between phenomena and noumena, the two aspect view holds that this is merely an epistemic distinction.23 We can consider an object both spatiotemporally in, the manner of sensible conditions and we can also view them as things-in-themselves.24 The most notable example of this is found in Kant 's view of freedom: the human subject can be viewed as both…

Virtue is the habit of choosing the mean between the extremes of excess and deficiency with regard to some action or emotion. Most importantly, virtue brings upon friendship since virtue is the parent and preserver of friendship and without virtue, friendship cannot exist at all. Aristotle’s aristotelian view on friendship in the Nicomachean Ethics Books 8 & 9 contrasts and compares with Cicero’s eclectic view on friendship in De Amicitia in numerous ways. Aristotle defines friendship as two…

“Mathematics” is an open concept with many possible meanings. In Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein(1992) talks about the variety of language games, and “mathematics” may operate in a huge number of such games. While mathematics as a research field includes a vast domain of unsolved issues and conceptions in development. Well-intended definitions, as suggested by classic positions within the philosophy of mathematics – where logicism describes mathematics as a further development…

Discuss Thomas Gnosticism. What did it mean to be a Thomas Christian? How was that different from Johannine or Pauline Christianity ? Include a broad description of the Gospel of Thomas, the Book of Thomas the Contender, and the Acts of Thomas , pointing to their similarity and differences Gospel of Thomas According to class lecture notes on November 17th 2016 , The Gospel of Thomas can be set during the early part…

Myth and Regional Identity John T. Matthews, in The Sound and the Fury: Faulkner and the Lost Cause, locates the cause of the struggle as the Civil War. Matthews points out that the Civil War had “permanently altered the foundation of both the Southern economy and race relations” by abolishing slavery, which was the basis of Southern society. As the promise of Reconstruction fell through and without a system to replace slavery, the South was denied economic recovery. The Southerners were faced…

IBN SINA’S VIEW ON PROPHETHOOD ABSTRACT: In the medieval ages Ibn Sina’s works contributed a lot in the advancement of philosophy. As part of his contribution to the theosophy, Ibn Sina wrote a lot including the doctrine of prophecy. In that work Avicenna gives a philosophical analysis of different aspects of prophethood. Sheikh A Rais as he was called presents a creditable account of the phenomenon of prophethood which could be seen in his few works. He explains into details the prophet’s…