Nehru's ideas in relation to Gandhianism
Essay - 4 pages - Philosophy
A critical reading of Sunil Khilnani's arguments in The Idea of India appears to reflect well on the actions taken by Jawaharlal Nehru in his development of the state of India. As described by Khilnani, Nehru had a number of ideas which appear at the outset to be in violation of the principles of...
Reinforcements for the Free Will Defense
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
Here I shall argue against objections raised by J.L. Mackie and Nelson Pike to the Free Will Defense. These philosophers want to know why an omnipotent and wholly good God could not create a world in which everybody acts freely and rightly. I shall show that this condition is logically...
The child sex trade in Asia
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
References to Asia often bring to mind the stunning beauty of the Orient. Rich cultural tradition coupled with unique design and architecture make Asia appear to be an almost mythical culture to Western citizens. While it is indeed true that Asia is associated with an exotic culture deeply...
Does race play a mitigating role in the application of the death penalty?
Essay - 2 pages - Philosophy
Over the course of the twentieth century there have been a number of issues that have promulgated debate. Prayer in public schools, gun control and abortion are among the most notable issues to garner attention. While each of these issues has significant ramifications for the development of...
The "Marx Brothers":Wallerstein, Chakrabarty, and Appadurai in Conversation
Essay - 8 pages - Philosophy
The anthropological study of capitalism is rendered difficult by the inaccessibility of capitalist subjects as informants, the political legacy of Marxist and socialist movements, and the continuing disagreement over the origins and productions of capitalism, among other things. However, there...
Manifest: To Become
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
On the occasion of International Women's Day, I find myself wanting to write about feminism. I don't know what wave I am—4th, or maybe some unknowable iteration in the process of being born and matured. But I do know that I think a lot about what it means to be a woman wielding her power in...
A Little Breathing Room : A Look At Feminism
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
“ ‘To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart…' and in this way we began a long session of ventilation of the heart” (Satrapi). With these words, Marjane Satrapi sets the stage for Embroideries and her intimate insight into the lives of women in an Iranian...
New Zealand Popular Music
Essay - 2 pages - Philosophy
New Zealand rock and pop, while relatively new, are both very exciting and active genres of music. Several artists have found much success in the field over the years, having their music heard through New Zealand and sometimes even throughout Australia, Great Britain, and the United States....
Negative Portrayals of Heavy Metal Music
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
In today's world, the entertainment industry is one of the most prominent enterprises in the developed world, if not one of the top money makers. In fact, music sales alone have been a massive source of revenue, even regardless of the hits it has taken because of music piracy. Music, however,...
Thinking This Hard Hurts
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
Joseph K. is in trouble, and he doesn't know why. Accused of a crime the details of which he is not privy to, his life becomes one impossible search for an acquittal. All his energies are throwing into determining his crime and a way to prove his innocence, but ultimately his efforts are in...
Logical Positivism
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
Describe the logical positivist view of scientific theories. Explain at least one problem with the view, and assess whether it is a problem for all forms of logical positivism. Logical positivism, developed by the members of the Vienna Circle, was a new way of considering science and language. It...
Adler/Maslow Personality: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Essay - 4 pages - Philosophy
Competition is something that has run in my blood since I can remember. I have gone against the grain of what a “normal” female gender role entails, I have been very competitive in all aspect of my life, starting when I was younger with a co-ed baseball team, which blossomed into...
Evidence of Platonic Ideals Communicated Through Ancient Greek Statues
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
The Platonic idealist is the man who by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the faultless ideal which the reality misses…” - George Santayana (1) Art is subject to interpretation. Each and every work of art, from theatre, to music to...
War and Peace: An Examination through Relativity
Essay - 8 pages - Philosophy
Human beings are not inherently desirous of war and destruction. Antithetically, their basal concern is preservation preservation of land, property, rights, religion, and life. War has no innate locale in the souls of man; it is a device, and many consider it flawed in nature and profoundly...
"125th and Lenox: The Intersection of Different Ideological Avenues"
Essay - 6 pages - Philosophy
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X personify the argument regarding protest within the Civil rights Movement. The two charismatic leaders wanted civil and economic progress for the African-American community, and their differing perspectives on American society in the 1960s form the basis of...
Mucha's Dream: A New Art for a New Nation
Essay - 5 pages - Philosophy
In 1790, with the beginning of the National Revival, the Czechs worked to create a Czech state, which required the forming of a national consciousness that did not hitherto exist. The Czech people fashioned this identity using legend and myth and largely by contrasting themselves with their...
Lyndon Baines Johnson: An overview study
Essay - 8 pages - Philosophy
When one thinks of the president Lyndon Baines Johnson, typically one associates him with the turbulent period we call the ‘sixties.' Whether or not his term in office merely coincided with this era is an issue often debated. Nonetheless, his commanding presence has left an indelible mark...
The Marriage of Mereology and Topology: A coherent theory of Ontology
Essay - 4 pages - Philosophy
In the study of Ontology some peculiar issue arise out the study of entities and what make them up. The first thing that one notices is that there are parts of things and wholes that are the things which we view ontologically. This ontological status of parthood as relating to what the parts...
Romantic Love in the Time of Abelard and Heloise
Essay - 4 pages - Philosophy
This essay seeks to show the existence of romantic love in the 12th century through various its manifestations in the letters of Peter Abelard and Heloise, as well as show how the idea of romantic idea was different from the ways in which we think of it today. These letters are filled with...
The Rise of the Ribat Mentality and the End of Muslim Spain
Essay - 6 pages - Philosophy
Between the fall of Toledo in 1085 and the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212, a new force entered the politics of Muslim al-Andalus (or Andalusia). This force was the North African Islamic fundamentalism of two groups, the Almoravids and their successors, the Almohads. Both these groups...
"People like Us" by David Brooks
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
David Brooks' “People Like Us” is an analytical essay on the issue of diversity seen from the eyes of the author. Brooks takes an emotional point of view of the way in which we take for granted how diverse our nation is although it is “relatively homogeneous” when looked at...
What are the Objects of Visual Perception?
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
There is much debate about what it is we actually perceive of the world, if anything at all. In this essay I wish to focus on the theory of Direct Realism, and show why I believe it to be the correct theory. I will show this by looking at all the main objections to Direct Realism, and show that...
Is Creation Due to Nature or God? Discuss the Arguments for Creation in the Samkhyakarika.
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
The Samkhya School of philosophy has what I believe to be an agnostic note on the nature of creation and on the existence of God, although not atheistic in the sense that there is still a cause for evolution. In this essay I will try to show how the Samkhya idea of creation is appealing but it...
Can Knowledge Be Characterised as Justified True Belief? What Would a Better Account of Knowledge Look like?
Essay - 4 pages - Philosophy
There have been many attempts over the years to try and define what constitutes knowledge. Up until the early 1960's, the general consensus was that the tripartite analysis of knowledge was correct. However, it is now widely accepted that this is not the case, due to the work of Edmund Gettier...
Essay on the Vaisesika and Bhagavad Gita Distinctions between Self and Body
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
It is my opinion that the distinction between self and body, as set out in the Vaisesika and mentioned in the Vedanta (Sourcebook, 1957, pp121-138, 386-423) , is an extremely cogent theory which seems to be able to reply to most objections raised to it. In this essay I will attempt to show how...
Is Sound Eternal, as the Mimansa Philosophers Believe It to Be or Is It Transitory as the Nyaya Says?
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
Behind the claim that sound is eternal appears to be the idea that it must be eternal because the utterance of the word is for the purpose of another. Without this eternality, one person could not make anything known to another, because once the word was spoken, it would no longer exist. Another...
What Would It Mean for an Event to Be a 'Miracle' in the Sense that Hume Describes It?
Essay - 5 pages - Philosophy
In this essay, I hope to show that some of the criticisms levelled against Hume, especially those by Robert Hambourger (1980), are not effective in their attempts to erode Hume's argument. These issues were discussed in an article by Dorothy Coleman (1988), which I will use to outline the...
Has Hume Refuted the Design Argument?
Essay - 4 pages - Philosophy
In my opinion, David Hume, in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, completely destroys the traditional design argument. In this essay I will outline an example of the traditional design argument, as written by Newton, and also Hume's critique of this argument, in his ‘Dialogues...
Aristotle's "The Rhetoric"
Essay - 2 pages - Philosophy
When digging deeply into Aristotle's “The Rhetoric” it only begs the question of the origins of the author. Many of us learn about Aristotle's legacy in grade school and learn about his works. However, many of us also fail to learn the basic elements that made Aristotle who he was then...
Progressing Toward the End of Spirit: Hegel on World History
Essay - 2 pages - Philosophy
Although Hegel's concept of spirit can sound like a purely metaphysical concept, more simply it is the ultimate force of our wills. Hegel believes that the wills of individuals, (which are inherently free wills,) that make up a nation are a kind of collective consciousness, which has an ultimate...
