Essays on Philosophy

The meaning of life has puzzled humanity for thousands of years. Religion points back to divine beings as sources of true hope and peace in life while philosophy attempts to use logic and questioning to explain the purpose of man’s existence. Even science seeks answers...

To be a citizen of the world, this new world of invention and discovery, it is as though there is something new being created every minute of every day. We have so much knowledge at the tips of fingertips that people just 50 years ago...

As citizens of a society, we hold the ability to question, criticise and suggest alternative methods of governing to better the society and its individuals. Thomas More used this ability of critic in the creation of his book, Utopia, which acted as a social commentary...

Everyone has a worldview, it comprises of specific parts, and prompts genuine activities. A worldview is a perspective on the world, utilized for living on the planet. A worldview is a psychological model of the real world or a thorough structure of thoughts and mentalities...

Buddha felt that nothing was really permanent. He asked himself what is this life like? Buddha thus conveyed his message to his father, wife and son. They gave no importance to religious rituals. He tried to find out why the brain was engaged. He added...

Every human being on this earth possesses a worldview, though they may not know what it is they still have an idea of what they believe in. A worldview makes up what we feel think, and act upon regarding situations in our lives. I believe...

The term “moral action” is so commonly used in our everyday life, and people put such varying meanings on it, that it may be useful to start by proposing a working model for the purpose of this essay: Moral actions are action that: arise from...

Thomas More’s “Utopia” is a work which fundamentally encompasses and endorses key values of Renaissance Humanists. Despite various interpretations that argue otherwise, in this essay I will contend that through his discussion of education and emphasis on persuasive rhetoric. More demonstrates his support for key...

What are humans, why are they here, and what is their purpose in life? What are our goals for life? When you make decisions about using time, is it about the stuff life is made of? What are the various values and priorities that pertain...

Environmental determinism, or the thinking that the environment (including geography and climate) determines the persona and attributes of cultural and ethnic groups, was once traditionally used to justify Western colonization. In the article below, Matthew Kearnes reviews the principle of ‘environmental determinism’ through a discussion...

It doesn’t have a label neither a limit, it is the strongest illusion that has no control. It’s appearance changes every time without much notice. It comes, it goes and its hand never stops moving. Time What is it? What doesn’t it mean? What I...

Free will is the concept we are ready to have some choice in how we act and assumes that we are liberal to choose our behavior. Free will has been shown as an illusion, and determinism is the belief that all behavior has a cause...

The definition of worldview is the person’s overall perspective and assumption of the world in a philosophical way, representing his most essential belief and the comments on ethics and politics, for example, a person matters on LGBT, abortion, presidential campaign… Worldview is unique, like a...

Liminal time exists in the cracks in our lives and the cracks in the life of the world that lie between the passing of the old and the coming of the new. Of course, there are other ways of looking at the world, ways that...

Throughout human history, the concept of free will has been accepted and assumed to be the true proposition regardless of its problems. Human mind’s ability to choose between two or more different options has enforced the idea that human beings are capable of making choices...

In the past decades a number of writers have studied technological determinism and the effects of it on our social lives. They all differ in their views, but there seems to be a common sense idea that technological practice is autonomous from science and that...

Stem cell research has allowed researchers and healthcare providers to understand the human body and develop new treatments for diseases, the use of stem cells especially those from embryos remains a controversial issue. While medicine contains many known principles and theories, there remain opportunities for...

Technological determinism is a theory developed by Marshall McLuhan. The theory of technological determinism says that technology advances in predictable ways, and those advances shape human events. In other words, technology has vast effects on humans and history. In contrast, social determinists disagree that technology...

Time has become my greatest affliction. When it seems the clock reads three, it reads four, five, six. As this world spins on its invisible spine and time warps at the same rate of its twirl, I float between the hands of a split second,...