Modern Philosophy Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (362) essays
Modern Philosophy essays:
Do we have a good reason to believe in existence of a "higher power"?Speaks of Transcendentalism
... beliefs using logic and science. If you do, there is no way to prove the existence of a higher power. The primary argument against the existence of a Judeo-Christian all-knowing, all-powerful, righteous God is the argument from evil. This argument argues against the presence of a higher power ...
Utilitarianism applied to post war Iraq.
... makeup of the population of Iraq, so as to see who we are to provide these principles to. Iraq can be divided into three populations: the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shiites. The Kurds are a Muslim minority, who are on the receiving end of the genocide in Iran, Turkey and Iraq during the reign of ...
Interpretation and Summary of Descartes' 1st and 2 Meditations from "Meditations on First Philosophy".
... fundamental truths of life, Descartes believes he must start from scratch so that he may discern truth from false beliefs. All of Descartes' beliefs, everything he has learned and grown to believe is now cast under the shadow of doubt, as he explains to us, "I will attack straightaway ...
Descartes' meditations: Descartes' discourse on method
... Meditation DeCartes exclaims that the one thing that cannot be doubted is that we exist. He claims that a higher deceitful being is extremely powerful and keeping him in deceit. He continues to express that there is no proof of God not existing. God can exist and then interfere with Descartes ...
Who was Nietzsche?
... of a higher status look down upon. So it can be interpreted that Nietzsche felt that if you went against anything from the Catholic religion to what society felt acceptable, you would be prosecuted by a higher power ...
Locke, Hobbes and the Good Life: The Proper Role and extent of Government
... existence of a legislature and separation of powers which are absent in a Hobbesian Leviathan. While the legislature holds the most power in the society there are rules governing it that prevent it from having the arbitrary power of Hobbes' sovereign. The most important of ...
Analysis of Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
... of the works and creatures of God" (Bacon 253). Its aim is the enlargement of the human empire through the development of institutionalized Science. The novelty of ...
Philosophical answer for the call of nation building "Nietzche's Ubermench and the will to power."
... of the NAZI's regime) Nietzche's will to power was his recommendation in the face of a life of lying. Nietzche believed that there is no "pure being"; no gods, no forms, simply no "things". In essence, there is no knowing. One cannot know ...
Can Utilitarianism meet the objections of its critics?
... Happiness Principle on every act anew. Case by case the consequences of an action are calculated, and then the decision is made. Thus moral dilemmas and conflicts do not exist ...
Utilitarianism: founding fathers, strengths and weaknesses of act-utilitarianism and rule-utilitarianism, other forms of utilitarianism, and recent philosophers
... Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied' As stated by rsrevision.com. Utilitarianism says that if actions promote the greatest happiness of the greatest number, then actions are right. This is the basic principle of ethics, and the foundation of morality ...