Essay - Philosophy's Unanswered Questions Introduction Western Culture Has Always Grappled with...

Philosophy's Unanswered Questions

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Western culture has always grappled with the meaning of life, whether there is or isn't a God, is he m*****le ***** female, does science take precedence over th***** God, etc. Philosophers, in answer*****g these questions, have made assumptions about the nature of reality. "These ***** tend to be expressed in oppositional language, such as m*****d and body, divinity and nature, orthodoxy and heterodoxy, science and religion." In later philosophy, thinkers developed a larger capacity for thought and started to grapple with the concept of re*****on. This occurred at ***** time ***** Socr*****es and the formation of Platonic philosophy, and again in the 1470s and 80s during ***** Renaissance, when scholars were prone to finding magic and mysticism in the arts ***** the doctrines of *****. (Kaufman, 1987)

The history ***** philosophy reveals in detail ***** *****s of many ***** and their reflections on life, reason, and the meaning of it all. ***** scholars were not only questioning the meaning of *****, but the nature ***** their experience. ***** paper will attempt to underst***** the fundamental questions between *****, religion, thought, and human balance. This paper will also illustrate ***** *****s of ***** philosophers and how they never truly came at consistent answers to these questions. I will discuss people such as Hobbes, Russell, Kant, ***** Nietzsche. In this paper, I would like to focus on philosophy and the rel*****ionship between the message ***** communicates and the questions it evokes. I would also like to try to understand just whom ***** in*****s to satisfy. ***** *****ion, given our day, would not be complete w*****hout an understanding of technology. This paper will attempt ***** recognize the broad arguments ***** philosophy and how each satisfies.

Divisions of Philosophy

***** we ***** studied, there are several branches of philosophy. These include metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics, and aesthetics. In understanding the indelible questions of philosophy, it's been helpful to understand ***** different branches. Metaphyics was a term coined by Aris*****tle. "Metaphysics' is concerned with the principles, structures, and meanings that underlie all observable reality." Questions concerning metaphysics include what is time and space? What is free will? What ***** the basis of reality? These are ***** some of the questions I ***** address ***** in ***** paper. Metaphyics was studied ***** Plato and Aristotle. (Matson, 1987)

Epistemology means "theory of knowledge." This branch of philosophy deals with the underlying ***** of reality ***** what it means to *****s. Arguments in this *****, deal mostly with ***** and ***** it is acquired. ***** presented in this branch include: What is basic reality? *****s what we see actually ***** we get? Does our experience ***** give us our *****? The problem of ep*****temology has ***** ***** how humans perceive the world in relation ***** how the ***** actually is. Philosophers have never quiet agreed on an answer to these questions. ***** based on how philosophers ***** understood the ********** of the mind to the rest of reality. Pla***** taught that the real world