1. thomas hobbes
For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. Physical immortality is impossible and highly unlikely is metaphysical immortality. Do we have an identity of self? Well I think we do, just that we don't know how to look. Human nature is paradoxically crude and amazing. What we value in today's society is misguided and corrupt. We should value the inner self not the outer self and what it reacts with. This then flows into Hedonism. Thus we then can move into the idea of human freedom and discuss how we may be free. Does being free essentially make us strong? All in all this paper and the arguments involved in it are just trying to find a solution to the Problem of Evil. .
"Always look on the bright side of life."" Sang the six members of Monty Python. Obviously they've figured out what meanings their lives have. Unfortunately, not everyone's life has the same meaning. I firmly believe that life does have meaning. The others: life can have meaning and life doesn't have meaning, do not catch my attention. If you look at Zorba and R.P. they understand that their lives have meaning and that they control their how and which they please. Depressed people, like Maria and the Rabbits, are those that have to be told what to do. They aren't themselves. They have no sense of life. They are those that live vicariously through others. There are times in life that you .
question the meaningfulness of life. The subject of death is a prime example of how people begin to question the meaning of life. Death usually brings people down. It makes you wonder if there is a meaning of life, and if the recently deceased found it.
But all these styles are based on the Tao, a branch of philosphy founded by Lao Zi which asked people to obey the rule by the universe and treat ourselves as a part of the nature. ... So there're some Confucian standards used in philosphy too. ...
Aristotle Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers of ancient Greece, and one of the greatest minds in human history. Although many of his works were disproved with modern technology, the gaps he made with his limited knowledge of the world at that time shows truly how smart ...
Wiggins 1 Summary A lonely man tries to ease his sorrow by reading books of the "forgotten sorrow-. However, he got interrupted by a tapping at his door. He goes to open up the door, but to his avail, there is nothing there. Into the darkness he whispers for his lost love, but all he heard back...
As we can see, thus, there is a clear allegory throughout the whole text identifying science with observation of nature: the both of them are closely related and nature is definitely the main source to acquire knowledge, as if it was "philosphied" science. ...
Truman idea of an ideal world was different from that of Adam & Eve because of the simple fact that Truman thought that reality , our reality , was real rather than believing the philosphy of Adam & Eve which was the perfect world was a world of harmony . ...
John Locke was born on August 29, 1632, into a middle class family during late Renaissance England. Locke started his studies at Christ Church in Oxford. He then went into medical studies and received a medical license, which he practiced under Anthony Cooper. They became friends, and when Cooper be...
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Raphael's Philosophy, or better known as School of Athens, 1509-1511 was one of the many great paintings that re-established the harmony of classical antiquity from the Greek and Roman predecessors of art during the glorious Renaissance era. It was a time of revival, renewal, and expression in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Here, we will explore the visual elements and principles of design that hold School of Athens in a harmonious balance. The School of Athens shows a setting inside a building with large domical vaults with a large group of men occupying the middle g...