Essays on Life

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is a tragedy based on Athenian thought, and it is one of three Theban plays that have survived and depict Oedipus' fate. Oedipus is the King of Thebes, unaware that his throne is the fulfillment of a prophecy that occurred without his knowledge. He married Jocasta, the...

Henrik Ibsen wrote the play A Doll's House. The play is about a woman (Nora Helmer) who discovers her true self after being enslaved by patriarchal standards. The author depicts a character who had to break free from a controlling marriage in order to achieve freedom. By concentrating on Torvald...

Happiness, according to Aristotle, is encapsulated in some notion of happiness as fundamental to human existence. Happiness, in this sense, is the primary reason for living and a self-sufficient goal. According to Aristotle, happiness must be done over time rather than something that can be accomplished after a specific phase....

"If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it." Genesis 4:7, New King James Version. Since the formation of heaven and earth, the word sin has...

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is the body in charge of collegiate athletes' fitness and long-term success. There are 1,121 colleges in the NCAA, and 99 voting athletic conferences. Even though the NCAA is huge and attracts a lot of coverage, it also engages in unethical activities. In my...

Set of Values There is a set of values that a person must be able to adhere to at all times in life. These social principles serve as a set of guidelines for an individual's actions and define how he or she interacts with other members of society. Important Attributes In my opinion,...

Truslow, James In his book The Epic of America, published in 1931, Adams introduced the idea of the American Dream. America and other parts of the world were facing economic difficulties at the time. The word "American dream" was coined by Adams to describe a diverse set of values, religious promises,...

Introduction It is normal for a man to want to live a happy life. Human beings aspire to live a good life, regardless of the different meanings of the approaches to acquiring a good life. Aristotle's Perspective Aristotle and Immanuel Kant had opposing philosophical perspectives on how to change society in their respective...

Cruelty, according to Hallie (13), is a continuous cycle of humiliation that lasts for years in a given society. He argues that members of a given culture have the right to control how the evil characteristic manifests itself. Cruelty, according to the author, is a manifestation of society's failure to...

Philosophy of life Philosophy of life is a discipline that teaches those who study how to live a happy and meaningful life and how to find the reality in any case how to live a happy and meaningful life. Philosophy is useful to students in a variety of ways. Some of...

Philosophical positions are collections of beliefs that enable philosophers to investigate the various branches of philosophy (Sellars, 2016). Different thinkers believed in different schools of thought, both of which they believed to be true and empirical. Philosophical positions that appealed to and persuaded more thinkers than others were embraced and...

The Trolley Dilemma: An Ethical Experiment The trolley dilemma is a one-of-a-kind example of a difficult ethical experiment. It examines the ethics and values of making decisions that affect people's lives, as shown by other ethical dilemmas such as the transplant and the bystander at the turn (Thomson, 2017). Hedonistic Calculus Analysis When...