Philosophy Resources (page 10)

Both Anselm's and Descartes' Ontological arguments, regarding the existence of God, have allegedly been refuted, most notably by Kant and his 'Critique of Pure Reason'. However, the o...

The question of whether or not freedom is an illusion because of the pervasive nature of power depends greatly on the accepted definition of both freedom and power. I am going to argu...

A priori justification is essentially justification for a belief that is independent of experience i.e. based on reason alone. I will be mostly looking at Bonjour's account of how a p...

The introduction can make or break an essay. Nothing puts a reader (or an examiner!) off more than a waffly, rambling introduction, which gives no sense of what the essay is aiming t...

The authors have undertaken a study to explore the views in non-Western cultures about ending the lives of newborns with genetic defects. This study consists of including active eutha...

Kierkegaard tries to trace the semantic contours of music, as that which lies beyond the frontiers of verbal discourse, from a position necessarily within the borders of referentially...

The logical method of determining the ideal - the 'ideal' being a term which is used in an improper sense in such a theoretical context, according to Coleridge's own testimony just ci...

I will make just one final point. In my continuing research I am looking for an answer to a problem, a perceived inconsistency in Kierkegaard`s stance towards the religious significan...

Looking back at what we have learned on the whole about Kant's conception of imagination, and especially in the light of the last three paragraphs, it becomes clear that this mutual o...

By this, Heidegger means that the ontological make-up of pre-conversion Dasein constitutes the possibility for its modification in faithful reception of a revelation of Christ's savin...