Philosophy's Unanswered Questions

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This paper attempts to understand the fundamental questions between science, religion, thought, and human balance, as well as illustrate the thoughts of these philosophers and how they never truly came at consistent answers to these questions. The writer discusses the philosophies of Hobbes, Russell, Kant and Nietzsche and focuses on philosophy and the relationship between the message it communicates and the questions it evokes. The writer also attempts to understand just whom philosophy intends to satisfy and includes a discussion on understanding technology.

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"Western culture has always grappled with the meaning of life, whether there is or isn't a God, is he male or female, does science take precedence over this God, etc. Philosophers, in answering these questions, have made assumptions about the nature of reality. "These assumptions tend to be expressed in oppositional language, such as mind 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 reason. This occurred at the time of Socrates and the formation of Platonic philosophy, and again in the 1470s and 80s during the Renaissance, when scholars were prone to finding magic and mysticism in the arts and the doctrines of religion. (Kaufman, 1987)"

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