Modern Philosophy Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (362) essays
Modern Philosophy essays:
Hume
... believe through religious texts, and our house of worship. It is the individuals perception of reality and what he or she believes to be a valid event. In conclusion, a miracle is actually based on an individuals own perception of past and present experiences. The belief ...
An Examination of Thomas Hobbes' Moral Philosophy with an Emphasis on the Escape from the State of Nature.
... and danger of violent death". Thankfully, Hobbes further strives to instruct mankind in how to avoid and escape this state. This negative perception of man's natural state stems from Hobbes' opinion that human beings are not naturally "good". In fact, Hobbes ...
The Life and Philosophies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
... and authority of others. The price of civilization is human freedom and human individuality." (Hooker, European) In addition, he believed that "man is good by nature and made bad only by institutions." (Scruton, 205) Jean Jacques Rousseau's beliefs of child development were that children should be ...
general explanations of Albert Camus's philosophy
... and often disagreed with many existentialist thinkers. Camus was a brilliant writer as well as a philosopher and although complicated his views will always be inspiration for further thought ...
Truth, freedom, love, clear perception, purity, transcendence, and enlightment. It all attains the ultimate happiness
... and actually -- it, then every person has the perception of this through feeling and being, through the very subtle feeling in the life of one's cells that the mind can perceive and be one with and ...
Utilitarianism and Omelas Applying John Stuart Mill's "Utilitarianism" to Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
... and unjust that he should obtain a good, or be made to undergo an evil, which he does not deserve" (89). The child surely did nothing to deserve the torture that he/she is being put through. Consequently, it is unjust that the child should be ...
Second Treatise of Government - John Locke
... and breaks a law of nature, the wrongdoer asserts that he lives by another set of rules, which are in opposition to common equity and reason. Since he is breaking the rule of having mutual security in the state of nature, he becomes highly dangerous to mankind ...
Rousseau: On the Importance of Private Property and Private Interests
... be of no value without being able to communicate thoughts or ideas. As a result, if one steps back and looks at the great importance of language in society, it can be understood as to why it took so long to develop ...
Evaluate the usefulness of the theories of class of Marx for an understanding of patterns of inequality in modern industrialised societies.
... and struggles is especially important in developing an understanding of the nature of capitalism. Bibliography Giddens, A, (1982), "Class Structuration and Class Consciousness", Classes, Power and Conflict, (Macmillian), pg 157-183 Heywood, A, (1994), Political ...
Jean-Paul Sartre
... and The Devil and the Good Lord, and then my two philosophical works, more particularly the second one, Critique of Dialectical Reason. Then my essay on Genet, Saint Genet, which I wrote quite a long time ago. If these are remembered, that would be quite an achievement, and ...