Ontology Essays

The Ontology of the Photographic Image André Bazin André Bazin through “The Ontology of the Photographic Image” examines how the mechanically produced photographic image is superior to the manual plastic arts for preserving humans and reality through representation. Bazin explores the existence of the photographic image through his essay. Plastic arts were used in the Egyptian civilization to preserve human beings. The statues were a magic identity-substitute for the dead. The religion of ancient

body in his Treatise on Man (L’homme) and its relation to his ontology and the To Mesland, 9 February 1645 letter. In the Treatise on Man (L’homme), Descartes claims that the human body is composed of of a soul and a body, and proceeds to provide a description of the body itself in order to demonstrate that mind and body would have to be joined to constitute a human body. In like manner, this description follows the same path as his ontology, in which Descartes argues that res cogitans and res extensa

The term ‘dualism’ has a variety of uses if we see the previous literature. In common sense, the notion is that, for any particular area of interest, there are two commonly different classes of things. In theory, for example a ‘dualist’ is one who believes that Good and Evil-or God and the Devil-are independent and more or less equal forces in the world. Dualism compare with monism, which is the theory that there is only one significant type, category of thing and rather less commonly, with pluralism

ultimately true. The ontology of that reality, correspondingly, is conventional; objects of this reality do not ultimately exist. But that they are empty of ultimate existence is an ultimate nature of these objects – an ultimate truth [2]. It cannot be thought or expressed, then, that they have this nature. This is a clear contradiction. By thinking or expressing that ultimate truth is inexpressible or uncharacterizable, one creates a paradox of expressibility. Paradox of ontology Beneath this paradox

The ontological argument, formulated by Anselm in his book proslogion, is written from a faith seeking understanding perspective; ontology meaning exploring the concept of all types of existence, typically Gods’. The argument is an a priori argument, this meaning that it is based on logic and is therefore deductive and an analytical argument. Therefore called the ontological argument. The ontological argument explores the existence of a necessary God. Furthermore, the argument is strong due to its

work was the platform for his lectures. His philosophy and wisdom were practical. “God has many names, though he is only one being” (Aristotle). He believed that there is only one God and he associated this belief through Metaphysics; the “unmoved mover”. His reasoning for this is that the universe (heavens) is constantly a moving entity and it is eternal. Since it is in constant motion this is how it communicates to all living things. This mover is unchanging in nature and it has the ability to

Right In Plain View: Voyeurism and the Anti-ontology of Cache Privacy in the modern world is becoming a commodity that is increasingly difficult to come by. It seems as if every day there is a news story about a massive breach of private data, or of some invasive new screening method being introduced in airports. The Internet has also enabled people to broadcast their information out into the world, with many people allowing others to look into their existence through social media in an oddly

Sartre’s Being and Nothingness: an essay on phenomenological ontology is a study of the consciousness of being. Ontology refers to the study of being, and phenomenological means of or relating to perceptual consciousness. In this essay, I would be giving a distinction between being-in-itself (en-soi, unconscious being) and the being-for-itself (pour-soi, conscious being). I would then cite an example from Sartre on an individual practicing bad faith in order to deny their freedom and responsibility

St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument Anselm, the Archbishop of Canterbury, first proposed the ontological argument about the existence of God. The Archbishop relies on ontology to prove that God indeed does exist. In this way, the archbishop was able to show God’s existence using His definition. Although the ontology was used for such purposes before Anselm, it is thought that he put it in the most comprehensive manner. The basis of the argument is the use of logic, which means that to prove that God

This argument is not wrong; after all, Sartre’s stance is deeply rooted in ontology and Nagel’s in psychology. In fact, in his paper, Nagel even notes while Sartre’s notion is quite intelligent it is ultimately doomed to fail. This is due to the fact that  Sartre’s notion of one reducing the Other to simply an object or subject

Dakarai Bishop Professor Leib PHI 2010 1 March 2018 Essay 2 During the Middle Ages, the proof of God was a question that many philosophers of that time tried to answer. Despite many individuals already believing in God, the philosophers still wanted to answer the question of “does God exist”. A principle called Ockham’s Razor, which was developed by William of Ockham, was used by many of these empiricist philosophers to challenge or align with the arguments regarding the proof of God’s existence

Does God exist? This is a question that a lot of people have on their minds. People want to know how did we get here, is there a being beyond us that got us here, or did we come through from evolution. It has been studied by many philosophers to find the answer to this question. People believe what they want and most of the time ones mind cannot be changed. There are a couple of arguments that philosophers have come up with. When one is looking at different general types of arguments for God’s existence

Why we study power, the question of subject Michel Foucault’s main goal is not to try to define the phenomenon of power or nor to elaborate the foundations of such types of analysis. His main objectives are to create a mode by which a human being made self as a subject in our culture. In this article, he has dealt with three modes of objectification, which a human being into the subject. the first is Mode of inquiry, which gives the status of science. Eg the objectivating of the productive subject

Existentialism, broadly speaking, it is a philosophy that posits itself against metaphysics. It claims to shift the focus of philosophical enquiry from the abstract to the concrete – that is, from an unchanging essence to the concrete, contingent human arena. This has been seen as the red herring of existentialism – if it speaks against an essence or an unchanging principle and focuses on concrete particulars, how can it be consolidated into a branch of philosophy? Existence is that which is; and

Metaphysical issues of consciousness Before defining “Metaphysical issues of consciousness”, we need to define terms 'metaphysics' and 'consciousness' separately. Metaphysics The word metaphysics derive from the Greek word (meta- “beyond”, “upon”, “after”) and (Physics) i.e. beyond the physics. Metaphysics is the questions about the fundamental nature of reality. It explains the fundamental notions by which people understand the world

The idea of what is authentic in the world still pervades our minds and how it tends to confuse our day-to-day existence, which allows for a lack of discipline and consistency in our social world. I will argue that even if it may conflict with the moral values of all persons, authenticity in existentialism is, nevertheless, sound in its approach to understanding the world and being. I will show that authenticity, especially from the perspective of Heidegger and Sartre, attempts to come to terms with

Philosophy is a universal human process or exercise that cannot be exclusively being attributed to a particular human race. There is no one human race devoid of thinking or reasoning. To think is one of the characteristics element of all human beings which differentiate it from other lower animals and things which cannot think like stone; trees; rivers; etc. to say that a particular human race is bereft of reasoning is fallacious and then tantamount to a racist assertion. By this we mean that for

The Other infiltrates our existence to the point at which we question ourselves about our very own Otherness ,escaping the self is impossible and in that sense we can never know the other and perceive their universe from their point of view. Othering is due less to the dissimilarity of the other than to the point of view of the person who perceives the Other as such. In this context, Otherness is defined as the unknown, as the opposite to oneself or as the outsider marked by outward signs

dissecting the expressionism in Spinoza’s writings, which is at variance with the philosophy of his predecessors (Descartes, Aquinas and Scotus), one can map out his thinking in analytic and synthetic logic to understand his revolutionary rationalist ontology in Ethics that impacted Europe in the seventeenth century. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. A solemn prayer always begins and ends with this invariably enthralling phrase which, incontrovertibly, reverberates

Arguments for dualism The most frequently used argument in favour of dualism appeals to the common-sense intuition that conscious experience is distinct from inanimate matter. If asked what the mind is, the average person would usually respond by identifying it with their self, their personality, their soul, or some other such entity. They would almost certainly deny that the mind simply is the brain, or vice versa, finding the idea that there is just one ontological entity at play to be too mechanistic