Ontology

Plato distinguishes and justifies his distinction between genuine knowledge and right opinion. The three major approaches which Plato takes are psychological: based on the structure of the rational soul. Epistemological: based on the establishment of standards of truth and knowledge. Metaphysical: based on a theory of reality. Plato 's theory of knowledge originates from the seemingly past debates amid Socrates and the sophists, of that Plato 's dialogues give us a vivid picture. The method Plato

scientific revolution, the industrial revolution, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the Renaissance. The history was marked with a broad range of subjects such as political philosophy, metaphysics, rhetoric, aesthetics, biology, logic, and ontology. During the Western Civilization, trade, belief on the existence of God, and the contractual agreements had begun taking their formal cause. It was during the Western Civilization that this idea started taking shape. For example, the Letter from

ontological argument is an echo of the original ontological argument for the existence of God as proposed by St. Anselm in the 11th century. To illustrate the background of the ontological argument, Anselm’s argument works within a distinct framework of ontology that posits the existence of God as necessity by virtue of its definition. In other words, for the mind to conceive of an infinite, perfect God, ultimately implies that there must indeed be a perfect God that embodies existence, for perfection cannot

1. Platonists argue that the best explanation for why two red hats resemble each other is that they each instantiate the universal ‘redness.’ Are they right? What does it mean to say that something ‘instantiates a universal’? In this paper I will explain the notion of universals, and argue why Platonism is the more correct view, as opposed to Nominalism and Fictionalism. I will also clarify the major differences between Platonism and Nominalism, and explain how they function as philosophical ideologies

“For all we know,” (Davidson 111) is an interesting phrase used by Donald Davidson in his paper, “On the Very Idea of Conceptual Scheme.” Davidson was a philosopher who had many interests in the field of philosophy, with one of them being reality and the extent to which it can be understood. This phrase, “for all we know,” sticks out in particular because of how it relates to reality. Reality is a philosophical topic which can never be settled. It will always have an open end, as we will never have

The significance of non-human objects within the context of human existence is often undermined and limited by the perceptions that human project onto the nonhuman. Ontology the through human lense depicts the existence of things within a Darwinistic hierarchical position. This position creates a distance within our understanding of vital materialism which encompasses the importance of the nonhuman in our daily lives. Bennet creates a platform that entails the relationship of human and nonhumans

Republic of the Philippines BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY Gov. Pablo Borbon Main Campus I Batangas City COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE AND FINE ARTS GENERAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Second Semester, AY 2015-2016 COURSE SYLLABUS HUM 102 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY 3 Units Prerequisite: None UNIVERSITY VISION A University which shapes a global Filipino imbued with moral courage nurtured through values and excellent education. UNIVERSITY MISSION Batangas State University commits to develop

We will be concern with the idea of authenticity in the world and how it tend to confounds our day-to-day existence, which allows for a lack of discipline and consistency in our social world. I will argue that even if it may conflict with the moral values of all persons, the notion of authenticity in existentialism is, nevertheless, sound in its approach to understanding the world and being. I will show that authenticity, especially from the perspective of Heidegger and Sartre, attempts to come to

However, accepting the fact that pluralism has a great influence on people’s reality does not lead to the acceptance of postmodernity as nihilistic phenomenon. To state that all forms of secular thought are supported and influenced by nihilism and ontology of ‘violence’, that Milbank mentions later in his article, would be a great underestimation of the humanity’s achievements. If we take the definition of the term “nihilism” from the Oxford Online Dictionary we see that, “Nihilism is the rejection

As surely as the possibility of God’s existence is self-evident to mankind, so it seems is the possibility of His non-existence. While virtually every culture throughout history has believed in at least one deity, the arguments for and against the existence of Christianity’s God have raged on for centuries. In his Institutes, John Calvin argued that God planted the knowledge of His existence in the heart of every man, saying: That there exists in the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, some