We remember Marx as a famous economist referring to his major work titled Das Kapital, or Capital. Marx promoted fundamental revolution in the economy. Hence, he is popularly associated with the economic systems of socialism and communism. What we must know that Marx was first and foremost a philosopher who sensed that as a philosopher he needed to work for the society by bringing desirable changes and shifts in it. He was not different from Smith, Ricardo, or J. S. Mill but a fanatic for ...
Essays on Philosophers
Kierkegaard begins his journal entry explaining how he cannot establish himself as a student. It is for this reason that he is searching for his “I”. He's not concerned with what he knows or what he should seek to know, instead, he's concerned with what he, as an individual must do. In this case, what God really wants him to do. He argues that even if he were to discover the so called “objective truth” and was able to explain a number of things, it would have no deeper meaning for him as a ...
Bureaucracy is an organisational structure that is seen to be administration based on discipline that an individual must obey because the rule of order is seen to be the best known method of reaching a certain goal. Weber’s writing on bureaucracy is understood most appropriately as an examination of the characteristics of a system of domination employing rational-legal legitimation. Bureaucracy is seen to be rather naive and optimistic organisation style and Bennis believes that it has lost ...
In the following essay I will be discussing the relevance of Marx today. Within the essay I will be covering the ideas Karl Marx had regarding capitalism and later go on to elaborate on how these same ideas and the extension of his ideas have survived throughout the decades and have prevalently impacted movements in the 21st century. Strong connections can be made between Marxism and our present society, including the globalised capitalist structure, class struggle and inequality between the ...
In this essay, I am going to analyse the relation between “I” and God two concepts from Descartes’s book “A Discourse on the Method”. People of his time in France would never have dared to say that “I” come before god, because they thought that god should not be doubtable. Even though, he started doubting everything, at first he does say that god exists. however, he does not say that god is undoubtable truth. Therefore, this is showed that he proves “I” first. The big aim or big question that ...
Rene Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. A native of the Kingdom of France, One of the most notable intellectual figures of the Dutch Golden Age. Descartes contributed to many fields especially philosophy but due to the lack of available information and awareness at that time it is hard to differentiate the thin line between philosophy and psychology. How Descartes and dualism are related?If Descartes was to be defined in a single word it would be Doubt Initially, ...
Based on my understanding of Socrates Philosophy 'An unexamined life is not worth living means' If you do not analyze what you do in life it can cause bad or good effect to yourself or to other people. This qoutation also mean you have to think and be responsible. According to www.fa-mag.com 'Socrates’ claim that the unexamined life is not worth living makes a satisfying climax for the deeply principled arguments he presents on behalf of the philosophical life. The claim is that only in ...
Socrates was considered by numerous individuals to be the wisest man in Ancient Greece. While he was blamed for his wrong spreading wisdom his expressed words are still remembered and pursued today. During his preliminary, Socrates expressed that, 'the unexamined life is not worth living' , people started to question his hypothesis. They started to think about what Socrates implied with his announcement, why he would feel that an actual existence would not merit living. To them, life was to ...
One of the views that are known and defended correctly is the fact that being noticeable in life depends on being successful in the education life they offer. However, blindly possessing what is taught in school life to be noticeable and successful in life is what Plato opposes in his famous work called Allegory of the Cave found in the book VII of The Republic. In short, Plato explains that everything we see and hear isn’t a reliable source of truth and that we shouldn’t blindly believe what ...
Determining the relationship between mental and bodily states represents what philosophers have known as the mind-body problem. Its resolution has been one of the main knots of philosophy, which, even today has not been unleashed. This problem appeared in ancient times when the mind was known as the 'soul.' It became popular in the Modern Age, thanks to Rene Descartes. The problem arises from the discussion that a man has a dual nature, that is, that one part of his nature is spiritual and the ...
Plato, born circa 428 B.C.E, was a prominent ancient Greek philosopher. A teacher of Aristotle and student of Socrates, Plato’s writings explored justice, beauty and equality but also contained discussions of political philosophy and theology.Plato’s most famous work is The Republic, a Socratic dialogue written around 375 BC and targets the questions “what is justice?” and “what is the relation between justice and happiness?”. Also, within the republic is Plato’s theory of the forms which is ...
Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche were two of the most influential political philosophers of the 19th century. These two thinkers’ ideas were on the surface, directly opposite of one another. Marx was for the collective and equality, while Nietzsche stood for individuals and hierarchy in society. Surprisingly, Marx and Nietzsche also have a lot of similarities. At first glance, both arguments seem to head in the same direction. They argue on the same side against morality and religion; both ...
Nietzsche sees Christianity as being an aggressor of progress since the beginning of time. Nietzsche understands that God wants man to be a blind follower, and to not think for himself. Additionally, from this passage it is possible to derive Nietzsche’s thoughts on woman. Nietzsche implies that the relation of man and woman exists to alleviate boredom from the world. Christianity imposes a barrier between man and woman, one which is sacrilegious to cross. Nietzsche must see the passionate ...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra or having an additional translated name which is Thus Spake Zarathustra, A Book for All and None, a philosophical novel more like a self-help guide by the German cultural critic, philosopher and scholar Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Most of Nietzsche’s life, he suffered from several illnesses increasing to ill health, migraines, insomnia, and near blindness for the rest of his life. Nietzsche declared ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ as one of his most culminating and important ...
In the 1800s, various reactions to classical liberalism occurred. The Luddites, who were mainly British weavers and textile workers, were in total opposition to the classical liberalist movement. They destroyed machines in protest of their recent unemployment and robbing of their livelihood. The Luddites thought that they were halting the industrial revolution when in reality, they were actually worsening the crisis by causing food shortages and being excessively violent in general. The ...
