Artist Angst
To say that the creative process is strictly sexual desire sublimated is no more accurate than to say that human sexuality is all about procreation. Sex and the creative process share many common characteristics. Both bring pleasure, and a grandiose sense of self. Each act removes one from the...
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Individual Justice
To Plato's way of thinking, creating a definition of individual justice is at best difficult if not impossible. Justice is a value laden with too much subjectivity. Ultimately to understand justice one must come to grips with what makes a just society. Both Hobbes and Rousseau would have been...
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Platonic Forms
The term platonic forms is usually referring to the ideas that Plato had and wrote about - his theory of forms. Platonic forms are not material objects
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David Hume
According to David Hume, the objects of reason are divided into two separate sections
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Aristotle on Friendship
Friendship
Aristotle said that two friends are a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Perhaps this is why most friends are people who share the same values. The friends I cherish, for example, are people who embody the principles by which I try to live my life. This is the reason why I seek...
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An Interview with Kant, Descartes and Augustine
This paper presents the script of a fictitious talk show where three philosophers have been invited to express their views on some important issues.
INTERVIEW
Hello and Welcome to NBC
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Friedrich Nietzsche on Socrates and Plato
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
ON
SOCRATES AND PLATO
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Plato's View of Beauty
Throughout Plato's writing, we come to understand that he holds beauty in high regard; however, his questionable faith in the intentions and efforts of humankind, tends to make him suspect of art. To Plato's way of thinking, the attainment of beauty is not the highest goal, but is subordinate to...
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What is a Syllogism?
What is a Syllogism?
A syllogism is a mode of argument that contains a sequence of three propositions; two premises and one conclusion, with the first two premises implying the conclusion. There are three forms of syllogism: a) categorical, b) hypothetical, and c) disjunctive. The...
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What is a "Genealogy of Morals"
What is a 'genealogy of morals' and how does it differ from traditional views about moral principles?
The traditional view of morals holds that the ideas about right or wrong are immutable. Ideas about good and evil, about what is bad and how to punish immoral behavior were supposedly...
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