“I’d say that the pious is what all the gods love… .” [9e] The pious is loved by the gods because it’s pious. [Premise] “So is [the pious loved by all the gods] because it’s pious or because of ...

Essay writing is important. It teaches us to think critically and to develop agency with respect to knowledge. Essays are also a site where deficiencies of character are expressed.

a) Concepts of utility, pleasure, hedonism and happiness, influences on the emergence of the theory, including social, political and cultural influences, the significant contribution of Bentham ...

A. St Thomas Aquinas’ Natural Law – laws and precepts as the basis of morality: Aquinas’ four levels of law (eternal, divine, natural and human); Natural Law derived from rational thought ...

As a small department, we offer the MA degree through a fully-funded program carefully designed to fill a special niche in philosophy graduate education. Our course-based, two-year program is geared ...

A 500-member jury of Athenians found Socrates guilty of corrupting the city’s youth by asking them questions. They gave him a choice. Either leave Athens or drink the poison hemlock. Socrates felt he ...

The unifying theme in our discussion of Plato has been his doctrine of forms. Your task is to explicate the doctrine and to explain its importance and development within Plato’s writings. You are free ...

Atlantis: How Plato’s Story Corresponds to Real History. (The lost island of Atlantis depicted in the painting of Léon Bakst) Public Domain Has the Atlantis mystery finally been solved? After years of ...

Pragmatism research philosophy accepts concepts to be relevant only if they support action. Pragmatics “recognise that there are many different ways of interpreting the world and undertaking research, ...