Modern Philosophy Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (362) essays
Modern Philosophy essays:
John Locke
... unalienable right, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness..." Jefferson focused on Locke's concept of a 'Social Contract'. Men are born free and equal in rights. Furthermore, Locke believed that if the ruler loses support of his people, the people have a right to depose the ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Distinctive Philosopher and Contributor to Modern Philosophy of the Twentieth Century
... concerning Master Morality and Slave Morality is illustrated. Master Morality according to Nietzsche is the notion that the "Aristocratic class, or ruling class, became leaders through their naturally superior abilities and stronger aggressive instincts" (Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals). Naturally ...
Does All Knowledge Come From Experience?
... and primarily his 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding'- almost certainly so. Locke's epistemological contention was that knowledge is derived from experiential concepts acquired in the form of sense-data. These sense-data were supposed, according to Locke, to be of primary and secondary qualities ...
Descartes Mind/body problem; interactionism; materialism; delerminsm; libertarianism
... of the relation between mind and body, according to which physical events can cause mental events, and vice versa. In this theory, the mind and the body are completely different entities. One can understand the body completely without adding any mental properties, and one can understand the ...
Kant and Mill's Theories
... of happiness for the greatest number of people. Mill's main point is that one should guide his or her judgments by what will give more pleasure. He believes that a person should always seek to gain pleasure and reject pain. So, the formulation is that the morality of ...
Kant and the Categorical Imperative.
... the great German philosopher is one who has contributed profoundly to the world of philosophy and especially in regards to his thought on the subject of morality. Kant disagreed with Hume that morality is objective and not subjective. Kant wanted to propose a pure moral philosophy, one of ...
Got a B+, but the teacher was a very yough grader. Paper on Descartes.
... the idea of God is synononymous with perfection, God was not composed and the ideas and qualities Descartes had of perfection are present in God. Also, Descartes argues that the proof of the existence of God is similar to the proofs of geometrical properties. He explains that although the idea of ...
ROUSSEAU ***THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
... of liberty, Moral Liberty. Moral Liberty allows them to be "masters of themselves." Rousseau states that there has to be a "form of association" which protects the person and property of each individual member of the community from the resistance and force of the rest of the ...
Analysis of Human Cultural Identity as seen in five cultural periods. Enlightenment Culture; Greco-Roman Culture; Judeo-Christian Culture; Renaissance-Reformation Culture; and Industrialization-Mo
... the possibilities of human reason. This idea can be illustrated with such examples as Thomas Jefferson, Denis Diderot, and Protestantism. Thomas Jefferson was considered among one of the most brilliant American exponents of the Enlightenment culture. He had the time and the ...
Manipulative power. Refers to Ayn Rand's ideas
... and a delusion of happiness. He follows the desires of his mother and cast aside dreams of pursuing the proffesion he wants. In doing so, he denies himself the gratification of doing what he wants to do and in turn sentencing himself to a life of misery and frustration. The ...