In Book I of Plato\'s Republic, Thrasymachus makes the argument that the life of an unjust person is better than that of a just. He then abandons the argument in the beginning of Book II; nonetheless, Glaucon does not accept this desertion. Glaucon wants to be truly convinced that Thrasymachus\' vie...

David 1 David "Bucky" Stewart Ms. Warren English 1101 3 December 1999 Annual Driving Tests for Senior Citizens One problem when driving on the roads is when a person runs across another person who should not be driving a car. Quite often, the person that should ...

Arguments can be made anywhere we want them to be made. We can look at some of these arguments that we are making by examining the communities we use to make them in. Perceived in terms of context, argument is discussed in terms of the "audience" to whom it is addressed or in terms of t...

Arguments can be made anywhere we want them to be made. We can look at some of these arguments that we are making by examining the communities we use to make them in. Perceived in terms of context, argument is discussed in terms of the "audience" to whom it is addressed or in terms of ...

Analysis of an ArgumentIn Attacking Faulty Reasoning, T. Edward Damer defines an argument as a group of statements, one or more of which (the premises) support or provide evidence for another (the conclusion). The premises of an argument are those statements that together constitute the grounds for...

Ad hominem arguments try to discredit a claim or proposal by attacking its proponents instead of providing a reasoned examination of the proposal itself. Hence, "ad hominem" literally means "against the person." Ad hominem arguments come in at least five varieties, viz., abusive,...

One of the most primary arguments made by the opponents of euthanasia is made in the following. Taking the life of a human being is murder. Euthansia, by definition, is taking the life of a human being. Therefore, euthanasia is considered murder. This argument is a basic form of inductive re...

It is ironic how you and I often hurt the people we love most in arguments. You need to realize that too often the people closest to us are the ones that receive the majority of our anger, because they are around you when you're most likely to let yourself really let your true emotions show. ...

The moral argument only 'works' in the framework of practical reason. Critically discuss the meaning and implications of this claim. Immanuel Kant was instrumental in demolishing the traditional philosophical arguments for God's existence. In Critique of Pure Reason (1781) ,his ...

Plato's Phaedo makes a lot of interesting arguments that are worth contemplating about. One of the primary arguments deals with Socrates' views on Suicide. Socrates and his friends, Cebes and Simmias, discuss whether it is wrong to kill oneself. Socrates begins by saying that it is wrong t...

Puzzles and Poetry: Argument for the Intentional Fallacy The act of interpreting and criticizing literature is much like trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle without the aid of a picture to show it in its completed form. Both tasks involve analyzing small bits of data, in the case of the puzzle th...

The Logical Structure of ArgumentsWhat exactly do editors mean by 'logical structure'? First off, they don't mean the kind of precise certainty you get in a pilosophy class in formal logic. In other words, don't try to sound so smart when you are writing; it's good to know what you're talking about ...

Political Debate Argument Essay A political debate is when two or more people argue and make valuable points back and forth to each other. In this particular political debate, Ann Coulter and Peter Beinart are engaged in a political debate. Ann is a republican and Peter is a democrat. T...

Features of Argumentation The logic of everyday argumentation should be based upon common data or information that is accepted by everyone. A warrant need to be used in order to relate the evidence that is presented in an argument to the claim that is being made. When creating an argument, one...

Within Philosophical Writing, A.P. Martinich states that there are a number of different tactics that are used in analytic writing. Martinich discusses the seven of the most important and widely used of these tactics: definitions, distinctions, analysis, dilemmas, counterexamples, reductive ad abs...

James L. Barnett Mr. Clark Owen Engl. 1301.12 24 February 2004 A person's life in today's society is highly shaped by the choices made during that life's course. Decisions are made every single day in the lives of today's society. Insights and thoughts are proposed every d...

Closing Arguments offer the last chance for the lawyer to speak to the court, and represents an effort to impress upon what is important to the jury members before it deliberates. Closing arguments review the evidence presented and sum up for the court what the case has been about and why the case ...

"Marijuana, Satins Advocate" The dispute of whether or not marijuana should be legal is not a new one. It is a topic that has been discussed and debated about for decades, but has not yet been resolved. The main three points of concern are the effects of the drug on an individual, ...

Martin Luther King Jr. states his arguments in one of three different ways: one, he states the opposing argument then contrasts it with his own argument, two, he quotes his adversary then either disagrees with his opponent and explains why, or he agrees with his opponent twisting his adversary's arg...

Decriminalization of Drugs This article by George Sher talks about the argument that none of the standard arguments for criminalization of drugs are good. I agree with George Sher in the paternalistic, protective, and perfectionist arguments. The first argument states that many drugs are very...

One of the most widely discussed arguments for atheism is "The Problem of Evil". Many atheists have based their beliefs on this argument, and think it is a very strong argument for the non-existence of God. The argument asks whether the presence of evil in the world contradicts the existence of Go...

The argument assigned for the mid-term was on the topic of greedy farmers, and antibiotics they are feeding their livestock which causes disease in humans. The first thing to look at is the premise evaluation. That is evaluating the accompanying evidence that supports the argument. Then a logical...

The excerpt from David Hume's, Dialogues on Natural Religion is structured as follows: Hume begins by stating an argument for the existence of God through the character of Cleanthes and then offers three criticisms of the argument through the character of Philo. The main argument that Cleant...

Introduction Fallacy as Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary define it, an often plausible argument using false or in invalid inference. Therefore, we must understand what an argument is. An argument is a collection of statements that support of some other. The statements offered in sup...

Why Common Sense? When Thomas Paine, a Quaker from England, arrived at Philadelphia in 1774, he brought with him the spirit of English radicalism which would later help to shape the future of an emerging nation. As colonists struggled both physically to defend their rights and their land from En...