Tutor HuntResources

Philosophy Resources (page 11)

 

Richard

Empiricism, Science and Early Greek Philosophy

ln this essay I will explore the Greek roots of the empirical tradition from a historical perspective, in order to establish the nature of the methodologies employed and the type of h...
Euan

Assess Kant`s arguments for the claim that there are synthetic a priori judgements

Kant's argument that there are synthetic a priori judgements essentially claims that judgements can be necessarily true by means other than conceptual containment and the principle of...
Joseph

Democracy

"We're all Keynesians Now", said Milton Friedman and Richard Nixon in the 60's and 70's respectively. In the same way now we might say, "We're all Democrats Now". Both statements set ...
Joseph

Pacifism

In the wake of the nuclear threats emanating from North Korea in the last week, and the apparent seriousness of those threats, the US has taken steps to prepare its military for a nuc...
Joseph

Voluntary Slavery

Our thought experiment taken place in a newly established settlement, Freetown, the inhabitants of which decide to live under libertarian principles. They leave nearly all areas of th...
Joseph

The Nature of Justice.

Justice Justice. It is a strong, emotive word and we regard the concept behind it as being highly valuable. Justice is most often viewed as a normative concept; it is not something...
Sam

Free Will

The above quote sums up the essence of the "Basic Argument" which Strawson presents in the article "The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility" (1994). In this essay Strawson's argumen...
Christos

Heidegger, Renaud Barbaras, and the phenomenology of desire

Introduction The interplay between presence and absence has always been an important theme in phenomenology, especially in the hermeneutic phenomenology of Martin Heidegger. This i...
Daniel

The theological significance of Heidegger`s later philosophy

THE THEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HEIDEGGER`S LATER PHILOSOPHY I I believe that Heidegger`s critical analysis of the western metaphysical tradition from Plato to Nietzsche is his most...
Daniel

Kantian Imagination: a new approach

In the Critique of Pure Reason, according to Kant's first edition version of the Transcendental Deduction , it is held that objective experience is made possible by means of a three...
See All Resources        View All Subjects