Classical Philosophy Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (339) essays
Classical Philosophy essays:
Cogito in Brief.
... way, Descartes' immovable truth, a truth on which he lays down his foundation of knowledge is the line, "Cogito ergo sum." I think, therefore I am. This is probably the most celebrated solitary line in all of philosophy, and is said to be the foundation for modern philosophy. An internet philosophy ...
Does God Exist?
... and animals. In this essay I am going to discuss the different ways people have tried to prove God's existence and the arguments which imply that there is no such being as God. Different people have different views on the existence of God. People who believe in a God ...
Anselm's Ontological Argument and the Philosophers
... existence of God such as cosmological or teleological arguments. These latter arguments respectively depend on the world's causes or design, and thus may weaken as new scientific advances are made (such as Darwin's theory of evolution). We can be sure that no such fate will happen to Anselm ...
"Utopia: An Interaction Between Social Idealism and Realism"
... of what is present in 16th-century English society. The perfection of these utopias is made so as to show the imperfections of the world in existence. Professors Glenn Negley and J. Max Patrick shares more thoughts on ...
Socrates and faithfulness.
... questioning his fellow Athenians on religion, they quickly turned and accused him of being an atheist. Socrates stated that belief in qualities implies the existence of those things to which the qualities correspond. "If horsemanship (the quality of riding horses well) exists, then horses must exist ...
Sophists to Socrates.
... theory of relativism based on analysis of sense perception. Explain this and it's, (relativism's), impact on ethics. Protagoras was a pioneer of a theory of perception. His theory of relativism captures the essence of appearance and the true nature of things. From his work we raise questions ...
Thomas More's Utopia
... first of which describes European society's ills and the second of which describes the ideal society, Utopia. His radical Utopia, very radically different from contemporary England, stands very staunchly in the face of his very conservative policies. The idea of a society devoid of ...
Aristotle on Slavery
... of life of action of the [part of the soul] that has reason. One [part] of it has reason as obeying reason; the other has it as itself having reason and thinking" (118). This quotation explains that there are two kinds of ...
Scholasticism; What It Is and Who Started It.
... and 16th, there would be an exponential growth in universities and the caliber of teachers and teaching declined. At that point, scholasticism became a derogatory sense. The next era of scholasticism was the second scholasticism. The Protestant Reformation was beginning in the 16th century and ...
'The Apology' and how the study of philosophy has enriched the understanding of myself, especially towards your ways of thinking and outlook on life
... I must obey God rather than man". To think philosophically is to think questioningly and reflectively. With ' The Apology ' and with the study of philosophy I learned to question, think and reflect more about my life. I learnt to examine things more deeply and not to pretend that I know ...