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Moral testimony
This essay discusses the philosophical premises, which can lead to either the acceptance or rejection of moral testimony in theory and practice. Academic and philosophical opinion has pointed out a number of objections to this proposition in the forms of moral non-cognition and the problems in the identification and credibility of moral experts or moral authority. View details
Citizenship
The term citizenship simply refers to the membership of a country, a state, a tribe, a community or an authority, which creates rights and duties between citizens and the state. The individuals are bound to abide by the norms, values, mores, taboos and laws determined by the authorities to keep peace and solidarity in its fold. Citizenship not only implements wide range of obligations on citizens, but also offers them many opportunities to grow, make progress, involve into social, political, cultural, religious, economic and other peaceful activities on the one hand, and assures the individuals peaceful environment, security of life, honour and belongings, legal remedies, justice and equality within its platform on the other. Looking into the history of the world from the most primitive societies of Palaeolithic and Neolithic eras to the most modern ones of contemporary technological age, it becomes evident that social inequality and injustices always existed in all human societies give birth to stratification and conflict. View details
Epistemology versus Ontology in Research Design
The paper will follow the pattern of defining the research problem, the research area and the going on to defining epistemology and ontology in context of the research area, which is knowledge management. For this it will be follow an analytical bent in order to find, through examples, the suitability of ontology as compared to that of epistemology. At this point it is imperative to say that this paper pitches epistemology against ontology with an argument against the former. This is due to the fact that the nature of the research area demands a field of study like ontology for the research design. In the course of this paper, the various research problems will be discussed with a focus on the elements of the research area. View details
Rich Pictures and Use Cases as analysis tool
For any process or product to be made successfully, the phenomenon of requirement analysis is very important. This is why the application of requirement analysis is commonly employed by businesses before they develop a new system or transform the one that has already been in existence. While the use of requirement analysis is very important is that it identifies the main components of a system or a process, who are generally referred to as the stakeholders, and it charts the course of their contradicting activities or actions as they work together to reach a final solution on an issue. View details
Portrayal of guilt and retribution
The use of improbable, high, and fanciful rather fantastic elements or dramatic scenes in the portrayal of retribution and sense of guilt heightens the sense of morality in realistic fiction. It was a typical 19th century fiction writers ploy to add such sense of the division or battle between the good and the evil. The diversion from Reason to the realm of the fantastic is too elaborate to serve as a reminder of what is good and what has gone astray in the novella. The exotic and often fanciful depiction achieves the effect of what can be simply termed as the everyday prosaic and what is romantic and lofty the world of the phenomenal as opposed to the Kantian world of the noumenal. View details
Terms "good" and "bad" "Death"
Many sociologists, psychologists, doctors and religious leaders in all periods of histore have discussed phenomen of death. In medical world term ''good death'' means mercy killing of terminally ill patients with the aim of easing their pain with using of euthanasia. A death which occurs in a violent manner is considered a bad death. Basically good death is one which comes late in life and is prepared for while bad death in most cases is unexpected and sudden. However both terms are just used to soften the hardness of truth which stands that death is inevitable and will eventually visit each one of us one day. View details
Feminist Principles and Practices in Geography
Since the involvement of the feminists philosophies in Geography, it has laid down a challenge to old ways of thinking, with the exposure of women of all classes in patriarchal structures. Feminists within geography and other environmental disciplines found that women worked in both, and created an intersection between them. The problem was not simply that women were different. Moving between work at home and work in public places, they bridged private and public spaces and activities. Womens daily activities were carried out in opposition to a city made up of distinct workspaces and home spaces. Women were altering the nature of these spaces and the relations between them. In effect, womens daily activities were rendering current urban form obsolete. View details
Buddhist Philosophy
Buddhist philosophy is a thought process that can be easily applicable in the die-hard competition of the Modern era. It can bring solace to the human mind once applied correctly. Buddhism has an often-overlapping quest for the ultimate end in life- Enlightenment. The proper implementation of Buddhist philosophy can be very relevant in the world of corporate competition. This tool that can be used to grant solace to the soul and mind is otherwise tattered by the stress of work pressure. The Buddhist philosophy is the medicine of such stress and once stress is negated out of the equation, it is logical that one would be successful in job and personal life. View details
Teaching of Socrates
Socrates taught his students the philosophy of questions and answer in order to help the patients or students clarify what the main question is, then the students or patients will then gather the necessary data or materials for him or her to make an analysis of the data gathered. The students or patients will then make, by themselves, several recommendations to the one problem they have generated in the beginning of the quest. The patients or students then make a conclusion or single recommended action or choice by themselves again. All through the process, Socrates only acted as guide or moderator and never gave his own advices or opinions to be forcefully followed by the student or patient. View details
Philosophy of Science
By considering the ideas of Plato, Descartes, and Lonergan, it has been shown that knowledge and truth are considered the same. In addition, it has been seen that knowledge or truth is justified belief. This provides insight on how truth is sought, with it shown that truth comes from experience. This involves a process of developing ideas or hypotheses and then testing them by experience. By considering the scientific method, it has been seen that it is a structured method of developing and testing ideas. Science is a process that aims at gaining proof to justify beliefs or gaining proof to show that a theory is incorrect. Finally, it must be noted that science is not without fault. The scientific method is an approach to finding truth, but this does not mean that it succeeds every time. Other issues interfere and create flaws in science. This means that even though science is considered to be a method based on reason and truth, it is by no means a flawless method. For this reason, incorrect theories are proven to be right, accepted, and later overturned. In the end though, this does not mean that science does not aim at truth. Instead, it is fair to say that science always aims at uncovering the truth, even if it is not always successful in achieving this aim. View details