Reason

Human progress is inevitable when it comes to using one’s reason to make sense of the world in which they live in. It is human nature to question everything, which results in an individual questioning of societal attitudes and values as well as their own. The following essay will explore the themes of human progress sub categorised by slavery, reason, nature and inequality and how they relate to today’s world. Human progress follows new advancements of every sphere that have been implemented to…

happiness but not just happiness, emotions are what are more important. While they might not agree that happiness if the highest focus they both agree that we are innately good and that we have thought in reasoning. Although Aristotle believes that reason is important to…

results for the more prominent prosperity of society. Socrates endeavored to set up a moral framework in view of human reason as opposed to philosophical instructing. He called attention to that human decision was driven by the longing for satisfaction, and unbounded knowledge originates from knowing oneself. The more a man knows something the more prominent his or her capacity to reason and to settle on decisions that will bring genuine joy. In the statement of regret Socrates connected…

In Timothy Williamson’s piece, “Knowledge and Belief”, he introduces a view called “knowledge first” which implies that belief and knowledge are two distinct entities. In other words, knowledge is simply a factive mental state that is “irreducible to belief” meaning that they cannot define one another (Williamson 124). Knowledge can include remembering, seeing, this is because he believes that belief can be either true or false, whereas knowledge can only be true. Although there is a possibility…

I received a score of 138 for the stress test. According to the score interpretation provided on the website, this means that I only have a low to moderate chance of becoming ill in the near future. This result is what I was looking forward to and it makes me feel relieved that the chances of me being sick anytime soon is very minimal. However, I think that I should not be too comfortable with my score of 138. This is because I am just a few points away from falling within the second category…

It is often said that faith, or religion, and reason are complementary sources of knowledge. However, this warrants critical appraisal, and I refute this claim using two premises. For the purpose of this argument, it must be made clear that it is faith that makes religion unreasonable. I propose that, reason and religion are fundamentally in conflict. Secondly, that because of this fundamental difference, it is unreasonable to believe something that is based on faith alone. Therefore, religious…

Grayling is a well known philosopher, and educator, with having written over 30 books on the sujets of: Knowledge, Ideas and Reason. In one instance he defined reason as being the “ Power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic” and later stated that “rightly used can settle disputes and guide us to the truth”. Opposing this, I believe that “Reason can when rightly used, lead us to the truth, but is conceptually flawed as we humans are generally emotional…

they get away with being late somewhere and explaining the reason why they were late, when in reality their supposeive reason is bullshit. This is what Bernard Roth argues in Chapter two of his book, The Achievement habit. Roth states a claim saying “Reasons exist because if people didn’t explain their behavior, they would seem unreasoniable (Roth 41).” Roth argues that all reasons are bullshit no matter what they might be, he believes reasons are excuses and another way for people to be lazy.…

Principally, Aristotle’s views on human nature plays an essential role in his eudemonia theory, which is based on human beings having an end goal, which is to pursue happiness. On Aristotle’s account, men do not naturally have a society-determined way of functioning, thus their different ability to retain virtues is part of human nature. The concept of eudemonia is therefore a doctrine rooted within human nature but requires a social input so as to attain its actualization point (Sachs, 2002).…

“Reasons are bullshit” (Roth 41), there are infinite reasons for anything and we choose the one reason that is the most socially acceptable. This quote is from The Achievement Habit by Bernard Roth. Roth is the Rodney H. Adams Professor of Engineering and the academic director of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the d.school) at Stanford University. He has created courses that allow students to directly gain understanding and experience about personal issues that matter to them. In this…