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A Closer Look Into the "Banality of Evil"
Essay Grade: 83% (362 words, approx. 1 pages)
A brief analysis of Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in Jerusalem, including further exploration of the meaning behind the concept of the "banality of evil."
A Paradox Truth
Essay Grade: 86% (385 words, approx. 1 pages)
What is truth and how can it really be defined? By contradicting truth, we contradict one self because it is how we interpret truth that defines it.
A Search for Meaning
Essay Grade: 88% (574 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay discusses how unity within the human race is impossible.
A.J. Ayer: The Elimination of Metaphysics
Essay Grade: 88% (1,621 words, approx. 5 pages)
In A.J. Ayer's book "Language, Truth, and Logic," the author argues that metaphysics should be abandoned as a form of philosophy. Much of Ayer's critique of metaphysical philosophy stems from the idea that insight beyond the world of reality cannot be gained because it cannot be empirically observed and understood.
Alvin Toffler
Essay Grade: 92% (890 words, approx. 3 pages)
Alvin and Heidi Toffler are authors and futurists who have written about coming technological and society changes they believe will happen. Their predictions over the years have been startlingly accurate, with their most-famous books being the best-sellers "Future Shock" and "The Third Wave."
An Analysis of Hobbes' "Leviathan"
Essay Grade: 86% (3,006 words, approx. 10 pages)
Provides an analysis and summary of the Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes. Describes how Hobbes illustrates that physical strength is not really an issue or a major factor. Hobbes makes it clear that all men are equal and that they should fear each other.
An Ideal Philosophy of American Government and Economics
Essay Grade: 78% (617 words, approx. 2 pages)
The challenge of finding the perfect balance between governmental philosophies and integral economic policies has existed throughout history. In America, the ideal approach to meeting this challenge is through the utilization of liberty, a combination of both Rooseveltian and Wilsonian foreign policies, and a monetaristic economic policy.
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Essay Grade: 86% (442 words, approx. 2 pages)
Explores the basic ideas some of the more famous Greek philosophers, including Socrates (469-399 BC), Antitheses (455-360 BC), Plato (427-347 BC), Diogenes of Sinope (400-325 BC), Aristotle (384-322 BC), Epicurus (342-271 BC), and Zeno of Citum (335-263 BC.
Appearance and Reality
Essay Grade: 81% (1,484 words, approx. 5 pages)
In order to find out how thing really are, one must understand the filters through which one perceives the world. Understanding filters may be interesting for philosophical anthropology. It will, however, not enable us to go beyond perception. After all, we will most likely continue wearing the pink glasses.
Are Socretes' Arguments about Death Sound?
Essay Grade: 81% (833 words, approx. 3 pages)
An analysis of two of Socretes' arguments concerning death, as expressed in Plato's "Apology." Both arguments, concluding that one should not fear death, contain sound premises, but neither argument as a whole is sound.
Aristotle's Knowledge Tree
Essay Grade: 86% (612 words, approx. 2 pages)
This essay is about Aristotle's five intellectual virtues. Focuses on book VI of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Argues that all these virtues are necessary for every person to live and must be applied to interact with other people.
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