Category Archives: Philosophy

Why is it that Aristotle thinks that misfortune can blemish a happy life, but that it cannot make an otherwise good life miserable?”

What, for Aristotle, is a substantial form? The prompt: “What, for Aristotle, is a substantial form? (How does Aristotle’s conception of a substantial form differ from Plato’s conception of an object that instantiates a form?) What, for Aristotle, is the substantial form of a human being? (How are health/fitness and moral goodness related to Aristotle’s […]

Where would you locate it in relation to Arendt’s chart of responsibilities?

Responsibility 2011 Mark Notaras and Vesselin Poopvski: “The Responsibility to Protect” //unu.edu/publications/articles/responsibility-to-protect-and-the-protection-of- civilians.html 2022 Alexandra Buskie: “Understanding the Responsibility to Protect: an introduction” https://una.org.uk/news/understanding-responsibility-protect-introduction 1. Begin by reviewing the criteria of jus ad bellum in Just War Theory. 2. Review Arendt’s four forms of responsibility, using the chart handout. 3a. Explain the responsibility to protect […]

Explain what Malebranche means by this claim, and critically discuss why he maintains that a ‘union’ is impossible.

Malebranche claims: Explain what Malebranche means by this claim, and critically discuss why he maintains that a ‘union’ is impossible. Does he offer a viable solution to the problem of mind-body interaction? You may also wish to consider his influence: How is Malebranche’s occasionalism similar to Hume’s view of cause and effect? https://archive.org/details/B-001-001-325/page/n23/mode/2up Malebranche on […]

Compare and contrast Nietzsche’s critique of metaphysics with the critique of metaphysical knowledge offered by Kant.

Analytical essay 2 Compare and contrast Nietzsche’s critique of metaphysics with the critique of metaphysical knowledge offered by Kant. In what ways does Nietzsche “go further” than Kant in his critique of metaphysics? Do you think Nietzsche’s radical critique of metaphysics is justified? Why or why not? Click here to download a handout that may […]

Explain and critique Descartes’ argument for why we can be certain we exist.

Explain and critique Descartes’ argument for why we can be certain we exist. As part of your critique, you can examine what the ” or the self is, if Descartes’ argument succeeds. In other words, what does Descartes’ argument entail regarding the nature of the self? Does it entail a plausible account of the self?

How is it, then, that Nietzsche could say that perhaps philosophy is like a raven, inspired by a “little whiff of carrion [that is, dead flesh]”?

respond carefully to the questions thank you. Was (or is) there something deeply important missing in philosophy (or in religion, or in anything we do with words and ideas in politics or government, for example)? Did philosophy forget the first thing about itself that it is first a self? That being a “self” means something […]

What aspects about Weil’s life and thought portrayed in the film “An Encounter with Weil” reflects how seriously she took being morally obligated to others?

Question 1: Adam Smith and Karl Marx proceed from a shared premise, but arrive at radically different conclusions about capitalism. What is this premise, and how and why do they draw different conclusions from it? How does Marx specifically spell them out? In what way does Marx’s critique of various forms of alienation in his […]