Essays on Philosophy

Politics and the Influence of Lawmakers Politics may not have a definitive meaning, but what lawmakers do influences all facets of our lives. According to Arendt in the Promise of Politics, politics is the product of free people engaging without being compelled to control each other as equals (Alexander, 2014). This...

The First World War has significant consequences for European governments and economies. The destruction caused by this war sparked the creation of a major political shift that spread through Europe. The philosophy of fascism was a revolutionary idea that was developing in a number of European democracies. Fascism seemed to...

It is clear from the lyrics of R. Kelly s song I Believe I Can Fly that there is a secret purpose. This song is a great motivator for everyone who wants to do something in life. For example, the singer says, I see me running through the door....

Relativism Relativism refers to the different approaches to arrive at a decision. Kuhn contends that there are no independent standards focused on particular knowledge or reality that assist in making a reasoned judgment. Instead, rational judgments are influenced by socioeconomic, societal, and historical factors, leading to relativism. Kuhn's View on Scientific Theories Kuhn...

In the year 204 AD, a Greek philosopher named Plotinus was born in Egypt. He founded Neo-Platonism and is considered one of the greatest philosophers of antiquity. He closely followed Plato's teachings and philosophies as the founder of Neo-Platonism, believing that they contained many truths. Plotinus combined contemplation, philosophy, mysticism,...

In his middle-period dialogues Plato developed his idiosyncratic theory of knowledge, which he began in the Meno and continued in the Phaedo and Theaetetus. Plato contextualizes certain words in his philosophy, such as "knowledge." His epistemology presents a knowledge empiricist perspective. The most exorbitant realms of consciousness, according to the philosopher,...

Which Will of Free Will do you find most convincing (Hard Deterministic, Compatibilist, Libertarian)? Hard determinism is the belief that everything happens for a reason. They believe there is a cause for behavior, but they disagree about what those causes are (Chaffee.,2016). They believe that universal causal laws govern the...

Obesity is an unhealthy or excessive accumulation of fat that puts a person's health at risk. Overweight is a key predisposing factor for deadly diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. According to the World Health Organisation, the number of obese people worldwide has nearly tripled since 1975. About 1.9...

Nietzsche allows us to imagine a politically dominant group of people ruling over a subordinate group of individuals. The masters are thought to be powerful individuals who can do whatever they want. These powerful people use the term "good" to refer to the kind of life they want to live...

Debates about Pop Psychology Articles versus Empirical Articles There have been heated debates in the past across various media platforms about the merits and drawbacks of pop psychology articles versus empirical articles. Most likely, the issue has become so widespread as a result of the enormous influence that pop psychology articles...

While Eternal existence is a great promise of immortality the question as to whether people should lose themselves or not from the physical and ethical world in order to be immortal pose a great dilemma. Of course in order to be reincarnated in eternity people have to go away from...

Introduction Ignorance is a novel written in 1999 by Milan Kundera in French and released in 2000. However, in 2002, Linda Asher translated the first edition into English, a translation distributed by HarperCollins Publishers in New York around the same time (Kundera and Linda 24). The novel discusses the differences in...