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Religion & Spirituality > Atheism & Agnosticism Reactions to Nietzsche's "God is dead"

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"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him," illuminates the essence of the dramatic challenge from German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to the very foundations of traditional morality and Christianity. For Nietzsche man had, for too long, rested on the maxims of Christian morality, and thus, championed the prop... More..

Arts & Humanities > Philosophical Concepts What is the reason for existence and the meaning of being

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What is really meant by the verb to be', "do we in our time have an answer to the question what we really mean by the word being? Not at all" In 1927 a young German philosopher Martin Heidegger composed his philosophical tour de force Sein und Zeit' (Being and Time), and at the heart of this immense work was the deceptively s... More..

Arts & Humanities > History of Ideas Aristotle and Plato, a comparison of philosophies

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The world of the ancient Greeks was one of burgeoning intellectual inquiry and was the cradle for some of the greatest minds in Hesperian thought. Within this vibrant, intellectual milieu there were none more luminary academic figures than Plato and his student Aristotle. These two revolutionary thinkers were predominantly re... More..

Arts & Humanities > History of Ideas The philosophy of Epicurus

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The philosophy of Epicurus was among the first in Hesperian culture to provide a complete and interdependent structure for the attainment of the good life. His panoptic system of thought encompassed concepts ranging from morality to atomic physics to an empiricist conception of knowledge. His philosophy was of the earliest to... More..

Arts & Humanities > Ethics Kantian ethics: What Immanuel Kant was talking about

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The philosophical and ethical acceptations championed by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, fashioned the prevailing attitudes of occidental ethics in the 19th century. Kant's ethics were based fundamentally on the principle that human beings are moral agents or capable of moral agency due to their ability to exercise what... More..

Education > College Courses & Majors What is critical thinking?

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What is critical thinking? And to what extent is it expected by universities in the essay writing process? Are the important questions that will provide the stimulus and motivation for this literature. Throughout one's university experience one will inevitably be faced with trying and seemingly insurmountable tribulations. Wh... More..

Creative Writing > Essays Essays: Worldview influences

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The individual's concept of the worldview plays an undeniable role in the fashioning of ones beliefs and values. To provide greater functionality for this analysis the term worldview' will be defined as that which provides some of the underpinnings for perception and the nature of reality as experienced by individuals who sha... More..

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