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Utilitarianism, as you remember, is the view, which says that the right thing to do maximises the overall amount of good. At first glance, there is nothing that would prevent a utilitarian from promoting mor...

'Evaluate': Assess the terms of the question and their implications'Sympathy': feeling pity for someone else.The claim that the aim of all ethical principles is to cultivate sympathy is a sweeping and inaccu...

In Epistemology (philosophy of knowledge), philosophers debate the question of how dependent we are on our senses to obtain knowledge. Empiricists, like Locke and Hume, claim that our majority of knowledge i...

Introduction should explain the terms in the question, state your thesis and dissect the question into arguments supported by philosophers, such as Richard Swinburne, Richard Dawkins, A.J. Ayer and William A...

Often in Philosophy (and Maths) we may come across the phrase 'if and only if', regularly abbreviated as 'iff' and denoted by an arrow pointing in both directions. <-> Logicians refer to this as a bi-c...