Video: 8 informal logical fallacies (for MATSEC philosophy)
Fallacies, despite being wrong, usually appear to be correct and thereby can convince people into accepting them. Fallacies generally result
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Assistive reproductive technology
When we do applied philosophy, we take philosophical ideas and apply them to current situations and affairs. When these situations
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Sartre on authenticity and bad faith
“A grocer who dreams is offensive to the buyer, because such a grocer is not wholly a grocer. Society demands
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Existentialism, radical freedom, and anguish
In Existentialism is a Humanism (1946), Sartre formulates his philosophy that “existence precedes essence.” In other words, since human beings
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Sartre – freedom, existence, and the Nobel Prize
When Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in October 1964, he turned it down saying that he
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Nietzsche – Going beyond good and evil
Going beyond good and evil means we are in territory not covered by traditional morality.
In ‘On the Genealogy of Morality’, Nietzsche argued that there are two types of morality: master morality and slave morality. “Good” and “evil”, he argued, are concepts that fall squarely under the latter.
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Nietzsche and the crisis of morality
“God is dead”, Zarathustra said in Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra, “and we have killed him.” Morality had been the domain of religion for centuries and millennia, until now.
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The Sophists – we are the measure of all things
Today, calling someone a sophist is often meant in an disapproving way. We often use the term for a certain
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Nietzsche: Superman of the 19th century
It is hard to overstate the importance and influence of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) on 20th century thinking. Philosophical theories and
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Utilitarianism, or Does the end justify the means?
One way in which utilitarianism differs from Kantian deontology is in its view of intention and consequences. We covered this
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Act and Rule utilitarianism
As we have seen in another post, for utilitarianism the value of acts and actions is based on their results.
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Utilitarianism – Going for the best outcome
What matters, rather than intention, is the outcome of actions. We justify the value of our deeds only on their
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Kant and the categorical imperative
Kant distinguishes between two types of imperatives, or moral guides. Hypothetical imperatives tell us how to act in order to
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The good intentions of Immanuel Kant
With modernity, as respect for science grew, so did the idea that the scientific model could be used in areas
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Epicurus and the pleasure-seeking principle
Today, when we hear the term “Epicurean” we thinking of a person devoted to sensual enjoyment, especially someone whose self-indulgent
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