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Philosophy is a subject that needs a structural understanding. This means that to develop knowledge over Plato's Republic, for example, one needs to understand not just his political views, but also what ...

Utilitarianism is classically understood as the theory that actions are right in so far as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.  Therefore, the right act...

The tripartite view of knowledge defines propositional knowledge as justified true belief. Edmund Gettier famously contested this definition by providing a series of counter examples which show that there...

Utilitarianism is a consequentialist normative ethical theory. Consequentialist theories hold that an action is right insofar as it creates the best possible consequences. For utilitarians, the best possi...

Kant's categorical imperative enables us to decide how we ought to act, regardless of the consequences. It, therefore, differs to a hypothetical imperative (if I want X, I ought to do Y) and is strictly d...