Month: December 2017

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  Why Hume being a historian is funny.

  IntroductionHistory is incredibly important in the modern day world in order to understand the behaviour of the human race and to predict from current factors what may occur in the future. One of the contributors to our understanding is David Hume through his book “The History of England”. However, as…

  December 28, 2017
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  What is Philosophy?

  IntroductionWe use the word “philosophy” daily in our lives, whether it is someone’s philosophy for parenting or the philosophy of Descartes. However, there have been many times where people have asked me, “What is philosophy?” I have often replied, “Exactly”, as I felt this encapsulates what philosophy is about. Despite…

  December 23, 2017
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  The Ghost and the Princess: Exploration of Gottlieb’s Article

  This essay will be delving deeper into Anthony Gottlieb’s article The Ghost and the Princess which explores Descarte’s substance dualism and the issues raised by Elisabeth of Bohemia. Introduction Recently, Gottlieb published an article in Lapham’s Quarterly looking into the relationship between Descartes and Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia. It’s a great article…

  December 16, 2017
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  4 Reasons Why Sex Isn’t Wrong; A response to Halwani’s Article

  Hello! This article is in response to Raja Halwani’s article on “Why sexual desire is objectifying – and hence morally wrong” and how we can challenge that we are objectified through sex. ~o~ Introduction Halwani wrote an article on the 9th December 2016, attempting to argue that, using Kantian Deontology,…

  December 7, 2017