Philosophy Resources (page 3)

In our everyday life, many a time we come across moral narrative in newspapers, research articles, lectures, seminars or public debates, which we fail to grasp and thus the commun...

Introduction On first reading the very phrase fine-tuning suggests intentionality. That something is fine-tuned is perhaps suggestive of an end or goal. The argument I am alluding to ...

Introduction Of all Stoic thinkers, Seneca is most notable for his contributions to the therapy of anger. In his three-part work, De Ira, Seneca calls for the total er...

What, for Nietzsche, is the nature and significance of the ascetic ideal? Is he convincing? For Nietzsche, the ascetic ideal, in the form of Christian morality and the post-Christian...

Whaling is a controversial practise, and grindadr p is no exception. Grindadr p is the local name that sees the people of the Faroe Islands, a self-governing archipe...

This question raises a lot of moral and philosophical issues. It looks at moral absolutism and moral relativism as well as looking at the relationship between the individual and the s...

Too frequently, freedom of speech is misunderstood as the freedom to proclaim. By this, I mean the right of individuals to proclaim I believe towards one another with incr...

I believe that I am a mind and a brain. This view is from substance dualism, popularised by Descartes. This is because the two interact, and need to work together to carry out tasks. ...

Published posthumously, Baruch Spinoza s philosophical treatise Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order sets out to systematically and mathematically outline Spinoza s argume...

From my experience, I am finding that the tutoring landscape is changing. It might be argued that at one time, tutoring was reserved for just those that could afford extra tuition. Th...