Essays on Philosophy

1. Aquinas tries to reconcile Christianity with Greek philosophy.  How does he try to do this, and do you believe he is successful?  Why or why not?   Thomas Aquinas has long been recognized or reconciliation Christianity and Greek philosophy. Typically, he is believed to have provided justification...

Marxism is a social, political and economic ideology revolving around the theories developed by Karl Marx with the help of Friedrich Engels. The ideology of Marxism looks into the impacts that capitalism has on productivity, labour, and economic growth and sustainability. The theory of Marxism claims that the struggle exhibited...

Utilitarianism merely is that what a person should do to produce desirable consequences. Utilitarian involves the results, that is, all bad and good, that occurs from a person’s actions, which arises either during or after the performance of the act. Moreover, utilitarian’s believed that essential values which are produced by...

Contrasting Attitudes Towards Rhetoric: Aristotle and Plato Even though Plato and Aristotle shared some attitudes towards the use of rhetoric in politics, they differed sharply in most cases. Plato believed that the use of rhetoric could have serious negative impacts on the society if it were used by people whose character...

The Weaknesses of Capitalism The communist can be used as an alternative for capitalist because of its weaknesses in the market and other dysfunctional side effects. Capitalist neglects the basic bourgeois ideology of fair exchange and thus leaves it to collapse. The ideology leaves the economic system to the politics which...

The main tenets of ancient modern debate revolve around social, economic, and political issues. They deal with the acquisition of power, retention of power, and human control. Scholars like Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and Plato have discussed the issues that even today continue shaping modern day politics. The initial belief of...

Plato’s ideas as espoused in his writing, “The Republic” greatly influenced Thomas More’s utopian society. Irrespective of this heavy borrowing, the book reveals some highlights which greatly undermine the setup of Plato’s commonwealth because of the contrasting perspectives of More and the context in which the writing takes place. There...

Conservative Ideology and its Definition by Michael Oakeshott Conservative is prevailing ideas that are composed of various complex ideas that relate to political movements, philosophical projects and also the social prescriptions. Ideally, conservative is not simple to identify in comparison to historic growth as it is liberalism. Hence, conservative tries to...

The book of The Prince was written by Niccolo Machiavelli in 1513 and was intended to criticise the tradition of humanist government ruled by the prince. The author made use of the book to advance his agenda of power, leadership and the proper way of navigating the political landscape. The...

Many nations in our modern world are divided on the political movement they should adopt in order to remain relevant in modern politics. In different countries, nationalist and populist parties have secured positions in parliament at the local, regional and also the national level where they have gained popularity and...

According to Grotius, the only grounds that should lead to war include the jus ad bellum, which involved particular conditions like a just cause and the decision to engage to war should be from the right authority. The other condition is the war should be done with the right intention...

The rise of the modern nation-state occurred mostly in the years 1800-1900 in Europe. The French Revolution is credited with stoking the embers of nationalism that resulted in the weakening and abolishing of monarchies. In essence, nation-states were the totality of two definitions: the nation and the state. The nation...