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Kierkegaard's understanding of faith as a paradox, whereby the particular is higher than the universal, and therefore demands a teleological suspension of the ethical.
... a father is that he protects and cares for his child. To kill one's child is a horrible, wicked, cruel, sinful, immoral, criminal thing to do - a ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
A danger of a single story
... a conventional middle-class family, her father was a professor and her mother was an administrator. She had a very happy childhood in a very close-knit family. However, a ... are seen as more than stories, they lose their magic; in other words, she says ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
Philosophy: Mind vs. Body discussion NOTE: THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR OF THIS ESSAY.
... a total genius when it came to this subject and has written more about it than any other philosopher I have studied. He was the father ... and the body. Descartes philosophy states that , if I lose my mind and become a machine of flesh and blood, then the body ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
The Republic/Plato. Plato's Analysis of Tyranny. In part nine of The Republic Plato analysis tyranny in terms of happiness, obtaining friends, and independence.
... a conflict within the ruling class. The first state of decline from aristocracy is timocracy. The aristocrat, who was the timocracy's father ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
Which of Nietzsche's ideas are the most useful for feminist theory and practice?
... . In addition, they attack concepts that originate from the founding fathers of each discipline. (Smith D. (1987). Nietzsche's philosophy has ... terms of war. There is a position to be established and defended, you can win or lose and you have an opponent ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
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