Utilitarianism is a doctrine of ethical theories that justifies the rightness of all actions on the outcome in which they produce. By accepting the foundation that Utilitarianism roots itself in, which states that rightness ...

The purpose of this project is to delve into this controversy and become familiar with the major arguments involved and examine their weaknesses and strengths. I will be primarily concerned with the positions of four ...

Kant's aesthetic theory asseses one particular problem: why is it when we judge an aesthetic object to be beautiful, we demand the assent of others. Kant discusses four moments--"Quality," "Quantity," "Relation," and ...

Wittgenstein's distinction between what is shown and what can be said is controversial because implicit in this distinction is the assertion that both sides of it are mutually exclusive, that is, what can be shown ...

Too often in our busy contemporary lives we separate the beautiful into a domain aside from our daily regimen. Art is left for aesthetes who presumably form subjective and fleeting opinions in order to maintain a discourse ...

In contemporary society, education practices have become characteristically unilaterally structured, giving rise to the subordination of self-realization of the student to institutionalized training of generic skills and ...

In this paper, I develop and argue for the view that an agent’s moral obligations depend on their non-moral beliefs, a view which I call doxasticism. I situate doxasticism within the current debate on whether an agent’s ...

The question of what it is to have a mind and a body is a recurring central theme in both early and modern philosophy. This question come to the forefront when examining and understanding transgender identities. In the ...