Essays on Emotions

In “The Subjectivity of Values”, Mackie makes a case in favor of an error theory concerning objective morality. According to him, moral judgments essentially presuppose moral objectivity (Mackie 12). The essayist argues that moral objectivity necessitates two elements: the ability to unconditionally inspire people to act, and an intrinsic reason-giving...

In the paper “Desire and the Human Good,” Richard Kraut states that the theory used to defend pluralism, Desire Satisfaction Theory, is weak and cannot be able to provide the defense required, because of this, he offers an alternative.  In the paper, Kraut presents an argument against the Desire-Based Theories...

Dalai Lama has been able to address so many issues that have tended to affect the human life especially the spiritual perspective. So many people from across the globe usually wants to achieve that fundamental need in life which is mainly focused on ensuring that they are able to live...

1. Methodological skepticism effectively subjects all knowledge claims to scientific scrutiny to separate the truth from false. Moreover, an individual systematically doubts his or her beliefs not to be true. On the other hand, radical skepticism refers to a body of science that holds that not every belief’s truth can...

Stoic philosophers, who include Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Zeno of Citium (the founder of stoicism philosophy) among others, strongly emphasize that a good life is brought about by living with virtue, self-control, and tolerance by serving other people, and by bringing inner calmness to our lives. They taught that, if...

Scepticism entails the view of not accepting what the society holds as true. Descartes tells the readers that Skepticism does not mark the end of asking questions or trying to find out the true nature of things and issues. Descartes posits that the devil demon cannot outrightly inform the people...

According to Aristotle, happiness depends on ourselves more than other people. For this reason, he gave this topic more time in his era. He established that happiness is an activity according to virtue and therefore the activity is according to the highest virtue. In most cases, it is referred to...

From Buddhist teaching, a human being can achieve the highest enlightenment or mental state through training. Therefore through practicing a person can purify his or her thinking and eventually become an enlightened person. Even Buddha himself had to work extra hard to become informed (Kano 5). Just like in the...

To live a happy and a fulfilling life one must first come to terms with his/her current situation. In most cases, people live in denial and are obsessed with other people’s lifestyle and end up living beyond their means. The social media is awash with flashy lifestyles that are in...

Logical Fallacies and Their Definition Logical fallacies are defined as the methods in which a person intentionally neglects the laws of logic and fall into erroneous reasoning. They are both inductive and deductive in nature. According to Beverly (184), logical fallacies are ideas within an argument that commonly cause a mistake...

Aristotle's distinction between Knowledge and Theoretical Knowledge is a practical discipline which aims at enlightening the society about the matters of conduct in practical. Many psychologists have tried to provide counter-arguments relating to Aristotle's claims on knowledge and theoretical knowledge. However, most of the scholars still use Aristotle's ideas since...

In skeptical doubts regarding the understanding of human beings, brings out the two categories of objects people’s reasoning. First, is the relations of the ideas and the other is matters of fact. Relationship of ideas is understood as the confirmations which are naturally or evidently incident. Theorem of Pythagoras is...