Philosophical works

Awareness, Expression, Freedom: According to the international Google dictionary, one of the many definitions of the word “good” means that which is morally right. Contradictory to the definition of good, The World State, combines a mixture of totalitarian-technologist practices in order to manipulate the Brave New World society without the consent of the people. The World State’s societal manipulation goes so far as to hinder the biological development of lower-caste members of the fictional society

because I am not getting a lot of work done. I WILL achieve this by not talking on the mat and not to talk to my friends when we are meant to be doing work and when i am working with a group I should listen when someone is talking so if it affected me I will know what to do and when it had to be done. Metacognitive Monday This week my focus is to not take it further then it needs to be I am focusing on this because sometimes it get out of hand when we are trying to work I will achieve this by not taking

In our modern, selfie-centric, and Facebook-likes-driven culture, it is widely understood that the formation and discovery of the "self" are crucial to one’s potential happiness. It is often advised that one must first focus on the well-being, contentment, and happiness of one’s self before working to provide such things for another. However, this mentality is relatively new in human history. It was once considered selfish to think of the "self" before the welfare of one’s community since they were

Skepticism is the claim that we do not have knowledge and denies that is posible to justify our beliefs because of this. “I think, therefore I am” is the well known saying from Philosopher Rene Descartes. This saying derives from his ideas based around Skepticism and Skeptical scenarios. This essay will argue that Philosopher George Moore’s response to skepitcism, in his writings ‘Proof of an external world’ provide an argument which is sound and against Descartes skeptical scenario of being decieved

Rene Descartes’ begins to illustrate his skeptical argument as presented in Meditation l. Descartes basic strategy to approaching this method of doubt is to defeat skepticism. This argument begins by doubting the truth of everything, from evidence of the senses to the fundamental process of reasoning. Therefore, if there is any truth in the world that overcomes the skeptical challenge then it must be indubitably true. Thus, creating a perfect foundation for knowledge. The first Meditation is an

and values the group shares. As a school 's values become more public and persuasive the school 's culture is strengthened and its rationality become more legitimate. Also, normative rationality has strong sense of community. Everyone in the school work together and they are members of a learning community. However, technical rationality

Student Number: 2121206 Professor Kisolo-Ssonko Knowledge and Justification 22 October 2015 Does Moore Successfully Refute the Skeptic’s Argument? I. Introduction In his paper “Proof of an External World,” G. E. Moore discusses what exactly defines an external world, and how we can know that one exists. He addresses Kant, who laments the following: “It still remains a scandal to philosophy…that the existence of things outside of us…must be accepted merely on faith, and that, if anyone thinks good

that it was within your power to prevent? If you didn’t have malicious intent, was it still you fault? Does letting someone die when you know you had the capability of saving them in turn make you a murderer? All of these are questions that philosophical thinkers have tried to answer for centuries. The Doctrine of Acts and Omissions holds that it is morally worse to commit an act that brings about a bad event than it would be merely to allow the event to take place by not doing anything to prevent

In this paper I will argue for an externalist view that I consider to be the strongest rebuttal to skepticism. Before I present the argument I think it is important that we define skepticism and externalism. The type of skepticism that we will be discussing, is the view that we don’t know anything about the external world. That is, we don't have any prima facie justification or reason to believe anything about the external world. The skeptic argues that even if we think a belief is justified

Noora Hosheshi Introduction In The Examined Life, philosopher Robert Nozick lists three conceptions of happiness, which he calls the ‘three forms of happiness’ (Nozick, p. 108). The third form of happiness is defined satisfaction with life as a whole--being able to look back on one 's life and be satisfied with what one has done/experienced (Nozick, p. 110). He argues it is easy to understand why people long for this type of happiness, as it is pleasurable to experience in itself. This is, if evaluation