Modern Philosophy Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (362) essays
Modern Philosophy essays:
Albert Camus (author of The Stranger) and Existentialism .
... the implacable grandeur of this life." -- Albert Camus Existentialism was a movement of the 19th and 20th centuries that primarily focused on individual existence, subjectivity, individual freedom, and choice. Most philosophers since ancient Greek times of Plato have held that the highest moral ...
Karl Marx.
... philosopher of the nineteenth century. He definitely was considered an educated man of his time. In fact, Marx wrote an amazing amount of political and historical works, which eventually made him well known in society. Same as all philosophers and ...
Marxist Ethics This essay explores the idea of whether or not there are 'ethics' in marxism
... volume collection of their complete works. Be this as it may, as a couple of philosophers they wrote very little on the subject of ethics. There is no direct explanation or definition of a "Marxist ethics", and the brief references to morals and ethics are limited. Many critics ...
The Cartesian Mythology
... , indubitable, "clear and distinct" ideas, and a type of knowledge that is incorrigible, such as the knowledge of one's own mental life. Descartes considered what seemed to be immediate experience as indubitable knowledge - such as sensations, thoughts, feelings, or desires. In the First Meditation ...
18th Century European Enlightenment.
... the philosophes saw themselves as continuing the work of the great 17th century pioneers--Francis Bacon, Galileo, Descartes, Leibnitz, Isaac Newton, and John Locke--who had developed fruitful methods of rational and empirical inquiry and had demonstrated the possibility of a world remade by the ...
Concerns With Locke's Theory
... century philosopher. In his Essay Concerning Human Understanding Locke makes the argument that the mind and body both exist and ...
Thomas Hobbes.
... the philosopher who supported the ideas of legal positivism that untangled morality from law. The divine right is a tool in which the government used to exercise power over the ...
Metaphysics. Consciousness, the Self, and Personality Theory A critical survey of theories of philosophical arguments and modern psychological personality theories.
... and philosophy are interconnected and rooted within each other. In the book Metapsychology, the author, Sam Rakover, states that 'Scientific knowledge grows and changes with time, and all three of the subsystems of science-the philosophical, the theoretical, and the ...
Social contract theorists: Hobbes vs. Rousseau This paper compares and contrasts Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau and then I discuss who I think has the stronger position and why.
... human beings constantly seek to destroy each other in a never-ending pursuit for power. Life in the state of nature is "poor, nasty, brutish and short." In the state of nature, no security is possible and life is full of horror, because of this they want to leave the state ...
Locke study notes: Used for presentation.
... the universal agreement of the whole of mankind to comsume even a banana. Locke argued that the absurdity of such a position immediately rules out the possibility that it could have been what God had meant. The very 'Condition of Humane Life, which requires Labour and Materials to work ...