Classical Philosophy Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (339) essays
Classical Philosophy essays:
Comparing Thomas Reid and David Hume on the topic of the mind-body problem
... phenomenon of memory. Thomas Reid was a "common sense" philosopher. He looked at personal identity on a very simple level, and believed that he must have a self because he can remember; he has a memory. To Reid, memory was a notion of a subject. He said: I remember that twenty years ...
Apuntes filosofia
... de la existencia, la justificación de la fe....). En la ANTIGÜEDAD A- Él Mundo se reduce a la Cosmología B- Él hombre a una Antropología C- Dios un principio Metafísico y hacer coherentes las explicaciones. En la edad MEDIA o MEDIEVAL A- Él Mundo se reduce ala ...
Free will today
... security blanket. The determinist and fatalist beliefs about past conditions create a problem for those who think we have free will. Some philosophers agree with the ideas of determinism and have a difficult time believing that they have control over future events by way of ...
Imitation; Truthful or Deceptive? The concept of art to Plato and Aristotle
... of imitation, and the inherent strengths and weaknesses of imitation as a form of artistic expression may lead to understanding how these conflicting views of art could develop from a seemingly similar premise. Both philosophers hold radically different notions of reality. The assumptions ...
The Life And Works of Aristotle
... of Aquinas was accepted, and the later philosophy of scholasticism continued the philosophical tradition based on Aquinas's adaptation of Aristotelian thought. The influence of Aristotle 's philosophy has been pervasive; it has even helped to shape modern language and common sense. His doctrine of ...
Plantinga's Properly Basic Beliefs
... And this, Plantinga points out, is something that is in dispute. No philosopher concerned with the theory of knowledge would claim otherwise. But many would claim that only certain special kinds of beliefs are properly basic. These philosophers would go on to insist that all other ...
An analysis of Augustine's interpertation of the concept of evil. Was it through the hands of G-d or from the hands of human
... and erred of its own free will"(4.15). Also, "When I chose to so something or not to do it, I was quite certain that it was my own self, and not some other person who made this act of will, so that I was on the point of ...
If god existed why does humanity suffer?
... of God 's created beings may exercise their free will to choose to live a life separate from Him and go there own way. In other words, free will leaves the possibility to sin. We see the same thing in many marriages. It only takes one person ...
The Influence of Beccaria and Voltaire.
... sense of writing. His everlasting effect upon society is shown in The Bill of Rights. Within many of his works, Voltaire criticized those who were not tolerant of diversity. He also wrote about "free will" which can be interpreted as freedom of speech. In Voltaire's The Philosophical ...
A Critique of Socrates' Guilt in the Apology
... of people's wisdom, was commissioned to him by the gods through the Oracle of Delphi. As Socrates said, '...but when god stationed me, as I supposed and assumed, ordering me to live philosophizing and examining myself and others ...