Essays on Lacewing

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Cognitivism is known as a reductionist methodological principle according to which the consciousness, soul and psyche are revealed as a whole and in all its manifestations can be reduced to knowledge and learning. In the humanities studies cognitivist approach introduces itself in the usage of epistemological concepts for the formulation and solution of values (ethical, aesthetic, pragmatic, and others.) Cognitivism has left a sufficient impact on the entire history of humanities and philosophy, since it has been lived as a dominant thought, despite his criticism of many prominent analytic philosophers who call themselves as non-cognitivism scholars. Their debates will ...

The name of the French philosopher Rene Descartes is associated with the doctrine of the independent existence of mind and body. This doctrine is called dualism (Almog 62). His teaching is based on the following assumption. He thought that there are two types of substances "thinking substances" (not bodily substance) and "bodily matter" (living, material substance). Considering the nature of the body, Descartes has appealed directly to the mechanical-hydraulic model. In his opinion, the excitement of man passed along the nerves - as a liquid through the pipes, and muscles with tendons are like the engine and springs. All ...

I reservedly agree that people should be allowed to do what they want as long as it does not harm anyone else. According to Mill’s explanation of the harm principle, he says that the only way law and moral condemnation should be used to change someone’s behavior is if it causes harm to others. The principle does not apply to a child until they are of age, and it also does not apply to backward societies. Children and people from a backward society are not completely developed to the point that they can choose what is good for them ( ...

Morality is an important issue in the modern society. Lacewing (1) wrote that morality defines what is right and what is wrong with regard to our relationships as human beings. In his theme on morality, Nietzsche identified two types of morality; these are master morality and slave morality. His argument was based on the belief that in the society, morality has historical foundations and the two components have evolved and mixed up in advanced civilization. The distinction between the two classes of morality as articulated by Nietzsche is discussed below. Nietzsche referred to master morality as morality of ...

Plato’s Theory of Forms

In Plato’s Book V of The Republic, he defines the idea of a Form as an “idea of a universal, a property that more than one thing can have (Lacewing).” In this case, Forms exist independently and separately from the particulars which are changeable and can be destroyed. Forms are permanent, unchangeable and indestructible. Also, every Form is good, and that the Form of the Good is actually the Form of Forms.

Form of the Good

Plato likens the Form of the Good to the sun. It is in the highest level where the Form of the good is the highest form of knowledge. As ...