Philosophers

Epicurus famous statement was "Thanks be to blessed Nature because she has made what is necessary easy to supply, and what is not easy unnecessary...The right understanding of these facts enables us t…

The role of moral concepts in the state is a controversial topic to be discussed. Today's politics depicts different agendas, beliefs, and varying significance to political issues. Whereas, the Foundi…

In order to know how someone could achieve happiness, it is crucial to give happiness a definition. Herodotus and Seneca, though not always on the same page, seem to be able to come to a solid definit…

In Happiness, Seneca was very critical of the Epicurean approach to happiness. He showed his disapproval of seeking pleasure and displayed the difference in their beliefs. Seneca also gave a fair shar…

It was noticed by Rudolf Carnap that philosophers comprehend the notion of observability in a narrower sense than a physicist. Needless to say, observability in the eyes of a philosopher is what can b…

As we know decades before our current government came to be there were plenty of disagreements shed among the topic of human rights. From the 1600-1700s there were quite huge amounts of philosophers …

In this essay, I argue that the supreme principal of morality must be a categorical imperative rather than a hypothetical imperative, and that Kant is correct in making this classification. I will des…

A massive philosophical question that is still thought about nowadays is whether God exists. Many arguments support or go against this statement, but the two most well-known arguments are Paley's watc…

Nel Noddings states in Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education (1984), "The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter" (p. 176). For many years, educational theori…

John Locke was influential for many different reasons including his social contract theory, his influence on the American Revolution and the founding fathers, as well as his theory of natural rights a…