Essays on Philosophy

When a person has an irreversible illness with a prognosis of up to six months to live, should that person decide when to die and if a doctor assists a terminally ill patient in a peaceful death, is that mercy or murder? For most, death...

There are many conflicting views the concept of the right to death and whether or not an individual should be able to decide when to end their life. Some can agree that in certain cases under unbearable circumstances, such as terminal illness, having the right to...

Introduction Social thinkers such as Plato present school of thoughts that empower the society to live in cohesion and harmonious way. The ideas presented by Plato define the societal problems and build on solutions that ensure the society improves on different areas. Folks in 2019...

Plato Republic’s classification of justice was to understand how what its true meaning is. Socrates and his colleagues divulge into a deep discussion on what justices means with Socrates trying to converge the message behind it. In Book IV Socrates has finally stated the definition...

Plato (427-347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher in Ancient Greece. He was a follower of Socrates (470-399 BC) and as such wrote a number of dialogues in which Socrates was the main protagonist. One of his most famous of these dialogues is the Republic, written...

During the second half of the nineteenth century, France underwent two major events: the transition from the First Industrial Revolution to the second and the end of the Second Empire followed by the beginning of the Third Republic in the 1870s. During this transition and...

Naturalism took European theatre stages by storm in the end of the nineteenth century. It resulted in many plays, theoretical works and stage productions that are the foundation for theatre as we know now, because of the ideas that naturalist suggested and because of the...

The term “worldview” describes the way people perceive the realm. Most people have secular worldview, which is formed by their culture or influences from their surroundings. Historically, people genuinely believed that there is a god or gods that created the world. In The word ‘nature’...

Naturalism and evolution are often thought of two theoretical concepts that support each other. However, Alvin Plantinga begs to differ. He is saying that the very notion of the conjunction of naturalism and evolution is self-defeating. If you were to believe that naturalism and evolution...

Naturalism is a literary genre that began its motion in the nineteenth century in film, theater, art, and literature. This motion managed to make an impact in character’s role in their family, public environment and personality traits. As a result, writers began to make the...

It goes without saying that Naturalism tries at length to pair how humanity is the greatest evolutionary success, suggesting that man is as natural as the Earth itself, and so should be represented in a variety of forms and circumstances to enable a deeper understanding...

The concept of Naturalism first came about in the 19th Century and it was an exciting, thought-provoking, period that encouraged many playwrights to replicate reality onstage in a variety of ways. Naturalism’s emergence was defined by a commitment to social commentary, scientific objectivism, and its...

It is said that a more precise concept of life than realism, with a touch of pessimism, is Naturalism. Naturalism derived from realism and it became a way to explain real life events. It focuses on extreme events such as famine and war. This is...

When one observes a specific phenomenon, this can be boiled down to a scientific law. Scientific laws do not provide an explanation as to why this phenomenon occurs or why it is present in our world, they just state the event that is occuring. For...

During the Middle Ages the rule of law limited executive power and the influence that each ruler had. The period is split into two, with the early Middle Ages coming first (until 1100) followed by the High Middle Ages (1100-1350). Feudal constraints were important in...

Abstract Various factors lead Morrison to write God Help the Child, in which one of the major factor is the self. Most of the work of Morrison contains social statements and attest to the physical, emotional and psychological abuse African American suffered at the hands...

Power is the most unique part of rationality. The branch manages the ‘main standards’ of presence, looking to characterize fundamental ideas as being presence, causality, substance, time, and space. Inside mysticism, one of the fundamental sub-branches is cosmology, or the investigation of being. Powerful examination...

Abstract This paper investigates the role of Buddhism as a philosophical system and in the socio-cultural context as well. I would like to investigate about how Buddhism despite not having a distinctive and clear sense of metaphysics, it still managed to be one of the...

Metaphysics mean “beyond the physics” which is no doubt one of the most important pillar of philosophy. It is word that invites a contemplation and awareness of something which is beyond physics. Often people get caught up in the physical world but the world of...