Category: Philosophy

Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche are widely regarded as the two greatest thinkers of the 19th century. Known…

As Stephanie Ericsson makes clear in her essay “The Ways We Lie”, the world has been desensitized to…

The question of individual responsibility, in my opinion, is the most important in the field of ethics. Coming…

Husserl was a German Jewish philosopher. Being Jewish put him at a disadvantage due to the times and…

Kant was enlightened by Hume’s theory of cause and effect. Hume and Kant agreed and disagreed to many…

Vegetarianism is a practice that vegetarians follow, which includes a diet of vegetables, fruits and sometimes selected animal…

Augustine considers the theft of the pears halfway through Book II. What particularly disturbs him about this teenage…

Morality has always been an issue that I have tried with great intensity to pursue. I have had…

In the case of the Good life, what would the Good life be in the average man or…

Doctors and scientists said it was impossible. “Man could not run a mile in less than 4 minutes!…

Life is a big trap. As the great philosopher Hume once said that we are put on the…

Some philosophers have wondered whether people have free will (the ability that man is able to make decisions…

Continental philosophy developed on the European continent as a result of the philosophy of Georg Hegel. Hegel built…

To describe the historical development of Continental philosophy’s existentialism and phenomenology as a response to Hegelian idealism one…

Knowledge of evolution can affect the way you view different areas of life, but it wasn’t always as…

Life follows a circular path. That is why history repeats itself. Let’s say just for arguments sake that…

Socrates was indicted on two charges pertaining to corrupting the youth and introducing new religious or philosophical ideals.…

Plato’s description of forms makes sense in the eyes of civilization and the process of education. If a…

Stoicism is one of the most influential and important traditions of the Hellenistic world. The Stoic doctrine was…

Does nature have intrinsic value? I will answer this question by articulating two opposing viewpoints regarding environmental ethics.…

Logic and critical thinking go hand in hand. Most of my major decisions are thought through and analyzed.…

In recent years Illicit drug use has become more prevalent in the workplace. Consequently, many employers began administering…

Inferences made from a set of observed statements of fact to an unobserved statement of fact, without formal…

There is an interesting dialogue going on within the field of cultural anthropology that addresses whether or not…

Aristotle (384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, who studied with Plato and…