We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy As I am sitting here typing this essay I feel justified in claiming I am in my room at Warwick University at 4.00pm. I feel assured that what I say is true but how […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Logical positivism was a movement that was officially established in the small Vienna Circle in the 1920s. The group of 11 mathematicians, scientists and philosophers met regularly to discuss and campaign for a change […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The answer will try to convey the evidence to support Rousseau claim that obedience to the general will increases our moral liberty. Through the idea of the general will Rousseau advocates a form of […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy One of the main branches of philosophy is epistemology, that is knowledge, what it is, how much we can know and how we can ascertain truth. Scepticism questions whether it is possible to know […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Critical thinking has been described as 1 ‘the capacity people have to question beliefs and presuppositions…with a view to giving reasons for them’. Critical thinking is a procedure for understanding and then evaluating the […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy In 50 First Dates, Adam Sandler plays the part of Henry Roth, a womanizer who has fallen in love with Lucy. Lucy (Drew Barrymore) was injured in a car crash and loses her short-term […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The above statement is referring to the infamous “Problem of Evil” in combination with various ideas of immortally. Yet the first proviso for this statement to be acceptable, is that this post-mortem life must […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The Enlightenment has frequently provided the context or impetus for a number of contemporary analyses in critical theory. The period of the Enlightenment, perhaps above any other, has been an attractive topic to a […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy St. Thomas Aquinas was an Italian philosopher of the mid-thirteenth century. He was sometimes referred to as the “Angelic Doctor”; he was a Dominican friar and believed to be the greatest medieval philosopher. One […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy In Jaspers’ Philosophy of Existence he describes three different immanent modes of encompassing: Existence, Consciousness in general, and Spirit. Within each mode the world is observed in differing ways. To comprehend the three immanent […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy ‘The nature of the human mind, and how it is known better than the body’1 is the basis for Descartes argument “The Cogito” in his second of his Meditations. This argument stems from Descartes […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy My first meeting with death left me confused and uncertain. I can remember every detail of that sunny afternoon where I first saw him. I can recall an event that takes me back to […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy I believe that medical science has gone too far already. Take cloning for example. Didn’t God make us so we are all different? Yes. So why are we trying to make people the same? […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Kant claims that “the relation of appearances … according to which the subsequent event … [is] necessarily determined in time by something preceding in conformity with a rule – in other words, the relation […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The recent assassination of bin Laden by the US SEALs has sparked off considerable controversy across the globe. The debate remains on whether the US assassination of bin Laden was an act of justice […]