Comparative Philosophy & Ethics Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (264) essays
Comparative Philosophy & Ethics essays:
Ancient and Modern Philosophy.
... gods) that human beings were constantly indebted to. This feeling of liability requires the ancients to resolve a simple life in which there is not much room for the mind to breathe. The life of the ancients can be best summed up in a quote from Edith Hamilton's "The Greek Way." In Egypt ...
Does God determine Morality?
... This means that failure to follow the more important morals will result in a much harsher reaction from others. Examples of this would include racial discrimination, physical abuse and stealing. Many strict fundamentalists believe that there will be serious consequences from a higher being ...
A Critical Analysis: "Aristotle's Dilemma". Aristotle's Dilemma written by A. F. Mackay.
... the independence of the degree of goodness and the eternality of the Form of the Good. He further notes that the duration of pleasure increases that qualitys goodness, so why not the duration of the Form of Good? One must wonder why Aristotle finds the Form of Good to be ...
Responsibility: are we really responsible for our actions?
... being overly reflective as is shown in this quote, "?so the problem of free will lies in the erosion of interpersonal attitudes and of the sense of autonomy," (Nagel 112). Nagel's problem with free will, in making decisions, comes from the desire to possess both the objective ...
Turn Around, An essay which breaks down both the parable of the cave and Socrates four levels of reality
... the darkness of his own ignorance. Even the light behind him is a false representation of the glorious sun outside. People have assaulted him with their falsehoods, telling him what God is, what Ideals are, and what his morals should be. These are the shadows on the wall, a terrestrial God ...
Explain 'Natural Moral Law'
... that acts are intrinsically good or bad because when human beings act in accordance with their ultimate purpose, God is glorified. Aquinas followed the line of thought that human beings are intelligent and therefore should be able to direct him or herself, this therefore meaning that ...
Arugments of Locke,Bayle & Leibniz. This essay includes the many arguments of Locke's Letter on Toleration, Bayle's Dictionary.
... of our lives. As rational human beings we use our free will to make moral, responsible decisions in our everyday lives. God would want us to make the right decisions; however he does not force these decisions upon us. This is the reason why God just gives us our souls without any predetermined means ...
How Voltaire's "Candide" relates to philosophe values
... of good and evil. He trusted the good philosopher Pangloss, just as readers trusted their Philosophe advisors to illumine the moral universe. When authors like Jensyn assured them that "the beauty and happiness of the whole depend entirely upon the just inferiority of the ...
Kierkegaard's Individual, Religious Life vs His Ethical Life and Universality; Are they really mutually exclusive as Kierkegaard claims? Suggested Subject: Humanities:Philosophy:Ethics
... good, than any action which goes against the will of the people would not be universal or moral. However, it has to be taken into consideration that the individual is receiving instruction from God. God, by His very nature, would not promote something that would act in a way that would prove to be ...
Environmental Ethics : Learning, Questioning and Correcting Old and New Paths
... this means part of being good should question what we have learned to consider a normal way of life. Addressing Modernity In spite of the modern delusion of alienation, of separation from the living Earth, we humans are not aliens, we belong here. The human psyche too is Earth-born, the result of ...