Can You Show That We Don't Know Anything? Most people go through life without ever questioning the idea of knowledge. We all make statements every day such as 'I know X', and 'We all have knowledge of Y', yet when we truly examine what it means to 'know' some...

Plato, in The Republic tries to describe the perfect state, by this meaning the political form and social organization that will allow people to live in a harmonious manner and be happy. The original title itself (politeia in Greek) refers to the concept of city-state and to the life philosophy supp...

TRUTH AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE PROFESSIONS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF `TRUTH IN ADVERTISING' AND `TRUE AND FAIR' FINANCIAL STATEMENTS IN NORTH AMERICA DURING THE PROGRESSIVE ERA Both advertisers and auditors wrestled with the truth of their text during the Progressive Era (1880-1940). Although in No...

WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE? Knowledge is understanding. However, understanding knowledge (or what has been understood) is not so simplistic. Many scientist and psychologist have tried to understand how we are capable of gaining knowledge. The philosophers are the ones who ask the fundamental question ...

As we as a society strive to attack that endless void of unknown that is our lack of knowledge, we have been confronted by and fascinated with the notion of the indefinite, whether we have fully known so or not. As we seek to discover the unknown in the world, we find ourselves truly attacking what...

This paper will outline Spinoza's argument in Part 1 of his Ethics of substance. He argues that there is only one substance, which is the same as God, that includes everything in the universe. It will walk through each proposition and explain his proof of it, which relies of his stated definiti...

Overcoming Evidentialism The turn of this century came in stride with Humanity's most radical scientific progression in history. Accompanied with science, has come the thirst to rationally validate all our beliefs with evidence. This is the principle by which the evidentialist devotionally abides. T...

In Despair about Nothing Man is often plagued by the question of his own existence. Existentialism is a subjective philosophy that is centered upon the examination of man's existence, emphasizing the liberation, responsibility, and usually the solitude of the individual. It focuses on individu...

Do the arguments of the First Meditation raise serious doubts about what we can know? The purpose of Descartes' Meditations is not to raise doubt about what can be known, but to eradicate doubt and arrive at a definite answer about what one can be certain about, indeed this is the aim of all ep...

n his Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson writes of “theover-soul”, the belief that mankind is united through very similarbeliefs through this “over-soul”. Our instinctive actions inmaking moral choices are all part of this over-soul. This over-soul existsuniversally among men and...

What is truth? I think, everyone has asked this question at least one in his life. It has been the main problem of many works of art. Well, "What is truth" can also be called the key problem of the novel "To kill a mockingbird" by Harper Lee. Here all the events in a small town i...