Essays on Philosophical Concepts

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The Natural Law on Free Will and The Nature of Evil According to St. Thomas Aquinas

9 pages / 4191 words

Introduction The Catholic church teaches that God places the natural law into every human being. Every person conceived possesses the natural law connaturally (Maritain 13). For human beings, this natural law is part of human nature and it informs its possessor of what is good...

Evil Free Will

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Understanding Truth in "Of Truth" by Francis Bacon

2 pages / 1006 words

In his essay ‘Of Truth’, Francis Bacon appreciates truth and wishes people to speak it. He begins the essay with a Biblical Allusion in which Pontius Pilate (who occupied an important position in Emperor Tiberius’ court) asks Jesus “what is truth” and then promptly walks...

Frances Bacon Truth

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The Concept of The Copy Principle in David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature

1 page / 445 words

The concept of the copy principle is prevalent in David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature. The idea of the copy principle is that simple ideas stem from simple impressions. Hume defines impression as “sensations, passions and emotions” while ideas are “the faint images of the...

Human Nature Social Learning Theory

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An Analysis of Power, Authority and Truth in Antigone, a Play by Sophocles

4 pages / 1885 words

In Sophocles’ play Antigone, Kreon, the warrior King may overrule Antigone, a mere woman’s, struggle for political power, but can he match Antigone’s resistance in a fight for political authority? Political power in a state rises from the presence of a force that exerts dominance....

Antigone Sophocles Truth

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The Views of St. Augustine on Human Nature

1 page / 525 words

St. Augustine’s view of human nature is primarily based on St. Paul in Romans 7, which states, ‘for I have a desire to do good, but I cannot carry it out’, suggesting that we are weak creatures that need saving by God’s forgiveness and salvation....

Augustine Human Nature

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How The Meaning of Life Affects One's Will in "A Man's Search for Meaning"

1 page / 578 words

In A Man’s Search for Meaning Dr. Frankl demonstrates the way the “meaning of life” affects a person’s drive and will. Frankl’s main argument is a prisoner’s struggle to find a purpose for his suffering within a concentration camp. However, this idea can be applied...

Man’s Search For Meaning Meaning of Life

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Fate and Providence in Homer's The Odyssey and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

3 pages / 1211 words

Both Homer’s The Odyssey and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe use fate to explain why the protagonists endure the trials they endured although in differing contexts. In The Odyssey, Fate assumes its traditional role of being puppeted by the gods, but with less rigidity. Mankind is...

Fate Robinson Crusoe The Odyssey

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The Significant Role of The Tiger and The Lady in The Fate of The People in The Lady, Or The Tiger, a Short Story by Frank R. Stockton

1 page / 554 words

Introduction In the “Lady or the Tiger,” one barbaric king comes up with a form of punishment offered to his subjects. Whenever an individual dare to love the king’s daughter, he is forced to choose between two breathtaking options. The person will appear between two...

Fate Literature Review

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Free Will Versus Fate in Melville's "Moby Dick"

4 pages / 1909 words

Introduction The theme of free will versus fate plays a large role in Moby Dick. One’s fate can be described as the path of events in their life that unfolds and cannot be altered. However, in Moby Dick, the end result of the characters can...

Fate Literature Review Moby Dick

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What Induction is According to David Hume

2 pages / 972 words

In this paper I shall briefly define what induction is and attempt to explain David Hume’s problem of induction through examining the three most common problems of induction, which are, the problem of the uniformity of nature, the problem of cause-and-effect reasoning and the problem...

Human Nature Philosophy of Life

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Looking into The Lessons of The Past and Engineering The Future

3 pages / 1557 words

As we analyze society and culture in the present day, we first have to look into the past using Social Imagination. To do so we have to ask the questions, what made our society the way it is, why do people act in certain ways,...

Future Society

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The Investigation of Human Nature: Victor Vs Nim

3 pages / 1159 words

‘Oklahoma, 1973’, begins the documentary account of an experiment to teach a baby chimpanzee human language and thus, in the words of one of the researchers, ‘test the nature versus nurture hypothesis’. And through today’s eyes, the eyes of film-maker James Marsh (of Man on...

Human Nature

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The Concept of Manifest Destiny Proposed by O'sullivan

1 page / 313 words

John O’Sullivan, a journalist, was the first to put to use the term “manifest destiny.” He purposefully coined it for capturing the general feeling of the United States people at the time. The feeling was that they harbored a God-given duty of expanding into the...

Destiny Manifest Destiny

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Answering The Question on Whether Free Will is an Illusion

1 page / 348 words

Free will, is it an illusion or not? This is probably one of the most famous arguments in Philosophy. It is a historical argument where each philosopher has his or her own views. Many philosophers’ opinions are divided when it comes to the discussion of...

Free Will

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Ambiguity Between Determinism and Free Will

6 pages / 851 words

There is an ongoing debate regarding the relationship between determinism and free will, two concepts that often appear to be in conflict. Determinism is the philosophical view that every event, including human actions, is determined by preceding events in accordance with the natural laws. This...

Determinism Free Will

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The Two Major Theories of Truth

2 pages / 685 words

“Truth is relative” (Velasquez, p. 433, 2017). The meaning behind this statement is the fact that there is no objective truth in the world, humans only have a few ways to gauge their own subjective truths through life experience. Two major theories of truth are...

Theory Truth

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The Meaning of Living in a Modern Society

2 pages / 1103 words

Living in a modern society has redefined the meaning of life in many ways. Nowadays, the most popular social networks have come to define the essence of existence as making others feel less critical by reducing them to meaningless followers. These followers are expected to...

Meaning of Life Society

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An Exploration of The Universal Truth

2 pages / 953 words

In order to understand universal truth, we must begin by defining truth. Truth, according to the dictionary, is “conformity to fact or actuality; a statement proven to be or accepted as true.” Some people would say that there is no true reality, only perceptions and...

Truth

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My Journey in Search for The True Meaning of Life

2 pages / 1028 words

Through times of misbehavior, jesting and complex trivial situations, I finalized my search and concluded my results ending with the people I consider my friends today. No matter what the problem, the time or the manner presented, my friends seemed eager to help and heighten...

Meaning of Life