Essays on Philosophers

Immanuel Kant and Deontological Ethics Immanuel Kant is well-known for his philosophical ideas and importance in the field of deontological ethics. As spelled out in his moral philosophy, Kant continues to argue that human beings are born with a special capacity to reason. Human beings may participate in acts that are...

Happiness is the goal and purpose of life, the culmination and culmination of human existence (Aristotle n.p). Almost everyone is on the lookout for happiness. Is happiness a pleasurable experience? Is it a state of prosperity? Is it possible that it is the individual's well-being? To different people, it means...

Ethics and Virtue Ethics Ethics may be characterized as an agreed code of conduct for a particular community and its meaning cannot be widely accepted. The key purpose of this article is to quickly explore the concept of virtue ethics (Kant 5). As a consequence, in addressing the purpose of the...

Protagora's views argue for three main areas: orthoepia, human calculation, and agnosticism. Orthoepeia requires the proper use of vocabulary, man-measuring the human intelligence relies on itself, and agnosticism means that human beings have not been able to do anything about gods. Plato's hypotheses argue that information occurs when an individual has...

Book I from the Republic of Plato highlights the effort by Socrates to achieve a reasonable conception of justice. Socrates engages speakers to explore the best possible concept of justice. Socrates does not, however, give any definition, and instead refutes every proposal. In Book 1 Socrates, a young nobleman Polemarche...

Immanuel Kant came up with a categorical imperative treatment, the main purpose of which was to decide if the action was right or wrong. Kant's results state that "act only the maxim that you can at the same time that it should become universal law." Kant concludes that we should...

In his essay 'What is an Author,' Michel Foucault based his attention on the notion that the author is socially created. He argued that the literary author had come into being in the eighteenth century, and that the possession of the book was separated as an indication of the elements...

In the year 204 AD, a Greek philosopher named Plotinus was born in Egypt. He founded Neo-Platonism and is considered one of the greatest philosophers of antiquity. He closely followed Plato's teachings and philosophies as the founder of Neo-Platonism, believing that they contained many truths. Plotinus combined contemplation, philosophy, mysticism,...

In his middle-period dialogues Plato developed his idiosyncratic theory of knowledge, which he began in the Meno and continued in the Phaedo and Theaetetus. Plato contextualizes certain words in his philosophy, such as "knowledge." His epistemology presents a knowledge empiricist perspective. The most exorbitant realms of consciousness, according to the philosopher,...

Nietzsche allows us to imagine a politically dominant group of people ruling over a subordinate group of individuals. The masters are thought to be powerful individuals who can do whatever they want. These powerful people use the term "good" to refer to the kind of life they want to live...

Happiness, according to Aristotle, is encapsulated in some notion of happiness as fundamental to human existence. Happiness, in this sense, is the primary reason for living and a self-sufficient goal. According to Aristotle, happiness must be done over time rather than something that can be accomplished after a specific phase....

Because of his position in describing the principles of religion Socrates' ideas have had a significant influence on Christian practices. Socrates believed in natural powers in the same way as modern Christians do. As a result of his questioning of Athens' god and teaching the youth to disobey rules that were...