Everyone mediates! Including you! We just don’t call it meditation. Your final exam is tomorrow. Or your client calls you to cancel an order. Or you just fought with your spouse. These are all stressful situations and we all have different solutions. Some people choose to watch cute puppies or babies videos on YouTube. Some …
Analytical judgments have their predicates that are wholly contained in their subjects. In our case, the concept “gold” includes the concept “yellow” and the concept “metal,” which only explain what consists of the concept “gold” rather than create judgments that are beyond the concept “gold.” A criterion for this judgment’s analyticity is one’s ability to …
How We Judge Before We’re Born vs After We’re Born Read More »
Descartes wants to prove that sensory information can’t enable the mind to fix distinctness to a transformed object, so senses are not the only tools humans use to understand the world around them. If an object transforms into another state and loses all prior physical traits, re-identifying it with only bodily senses or imagination is …
Mohism has many ideological conflicts with Confucianism. Jian ai (impartial love) is one of these ideas pitted against the Confucian definition of love. This paper will explain the ideology of jian ai, how it’s different from Confucian graded caring, discuss the potential conflicts that emerged in a case of its practice and how to mitigate these conflicts. Mozi believes jian ai is …
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Mencius is an ancient Chinese Confucian philosopher who adamantly champions the view that humans are born good. This paper will briefly discuss his conception of the inborn goodness in human nature, contemporary researches on the existence and origin of innate human goodness. Finally, this paper will offer its own view on whether preserving and developing …
On the Mencian Conception of Innate Goodness, and Its Survivability Read More »
Kant believes one cannot obtain a representation of space (RS) empirically because, without a priori RS, one cannot distinguish between sensations triggered by inner and outer stimuli. Perceiving outer objects necessitates a priori RS for containing and separating them. One can imagine no objects but never no space. If a mind does not assume there is space, it cannot perceive …
The Human Mind Works based on Basic Concepts, so What? Read More »
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who theorized on different categories of friendship and the ideal form of friendship. This paper will explain the Aristotelian conception of friendship and offer this paper’s own comments on relevant issues stemming from this topic. Aristotle believes that a discussion of friendship is important in philosophy because humans would not …
A Brief Discussion of Aristotelian Conception of Friendship Read More »
When being told that it was unsustainable, I would respond, “It isn’t supposed to be,” before heading to the treadmill, finding my usual black mark on the wall, and staring at it for the next few hours while continuing on the usual uphill trudge. I began doing this after reading that a scientist could improve …
Living Gracefully and Getting One-Shotted in the Process Read More »
Confucius believes junzi, a noble person, must be ren, a term that encapsulates a comprehensive set of ethical virtues that include “benevolence, humanness, [and] goodness” (P. vi Analects). Filial piety (xiao) is an essential virtue one must support to become a junzi. Confucius voices this requirement clearly: “the junzi works on the root” and filiality is a root of ren (Analects 1.2). Xiao establishes the …
Utilitarianism is a doctrine that one should decide what is the better moral choice based on whether the choice produces the greatest good for the greatest number of people. It is consequentialist because an action’s effects dictate which action is morally superior. However, this emphasis on prioritizing the outcome of a decision rather than commonly …
