Skepticism

going to come across the three chronic ailments in life. They are unavoidable. The three chronic ailments of life are death, futility, and suffering. Three of the many solutions made up for these three things are going to be talked about. Stoicism, Skepticism, and life after death are few solutions offered to these ailments. However, do these ideas provide us any logical answers to death, futility, and suffering? Stoicism Stoicism is an ancient Greek solution that means to be withdrawn from a…

Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice In many arguments, there are quite a few different viewpoints and how strongly one feels about a certain topic. The cliché’ of never discussing religion or politics are prime examples of strong viewpoints where it is difficult if not impossible to change someone’s belief or opinion. Sometimes it is better to “agree to disagree” then to get upset or lose a friend over an argument. A major issue that has been an ongoing debate on wrong or right is the topic of pro-choice…

During our time in the world, Christians often find themselves in close contact with skeptics- agnostics, atheists, or those people who simply don’t care about a spiritual life, who all have their own reasons to distrust the church and the Bible as a whole. The questions these people pose are not simple ones, not questions that can be answered by a simple “John 3:16” or a “Jeremiah 29:11.” How then should we, as a part of the body of Christ, react to and answer those people who desire more…

Leonardo Di Vinci once said, “The greatest decision men suffer is from their own decisions.” Deception can occur in everyday life and is an important process for building relationships or in general social interaction. In the Shakespearean play, Hamlet uses deception to reveal the role that Claudius had in the death of his father. Hamlet uses deception to gain the knowledge needed to indict Claudius with the murder of his father, while Claudius is using deception to cover up his role within…

As we turn to the issue of atheism, I believe some framework is necessary. Atheism is typically defined as a lack of belief in God and it is in the definition of God that the issue arises. Clearly, the two philosophers have a different definition of the word God. As hopefully made clear in the second and third paragraph, Spinoza thinks that God is an impersonal summation of all things (i.e. substance), while Berkeley thinks that God is a personal, thinking thing responsible for but distinct from…

Romain Rolland, a brilliant French novelist stated the following: “Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.” One may be doubtful with their current endeavors at first, however, being skeptical is the first step towards one’s future. I am going to take you through the journey of my current internship and enlighten you on why my skepticism turned into an implausible future career for myself. In November of 2015, I received a job at Transamerica,…

power. I will begin by outlining two arguments presented by Montaigne, and then expand upon them to better explain their meaning and significance. The first argument I will discuss is the seventh argument presented by Montaigne in his work on skepticism, and proceeds as follows; “To judge appearances that we receive from subjects, we would need a judicatory instrument; to verify that instrument, we would need demonstration; to verify the demonstration, an instrument; here we are going round…

Just by embracing one philosophical teaching it could change and better your life. In the second half of the book, Philosophy For Life And Other Dangerous Situations by Jules Evans, Heraclitus, the Skeptics, Diogenes, Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates are all discussed. Each one of them provides a different philosophical teaching. Heraclitus taught us about the cosmic perspective, the Skeptics taught us to have our own opinion, Diogenes taught us to live simply, Plato taught us justice, Aristotle…

René Descartes: Meditation 1 René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. He was given the title of the “father of modern western philosophy”. Many of his writings are studied closely in today’s time. The purpose of most of his writings is what he cannot doubt. Many see philosophy as an opinion, and it is exactly that. You can state a point, have a reason behind it, and that is a philosophy. Throughout meditation one, beliefs, dreams, and senses are discussed.…

The René Descartes’ main purpose was finding whether some truths really existed or not. It does not have to be forgot, indeed, that he came from a period of time when sciences did still not have a framed system of values, therefore he wanted to find a truth, between a lot of possible illusions: namely, tidiness among chaos. In this essay, I will explore Descartes’ meeting with the sceptical challenge of what he calls Demon Doubt, by providing evidence of this, as well as an explanation of what…