Essays on Metaphysics

Introduction: George Herbert Mead was a famous American philosopher, born in 1863. He contributed significantly to the field of social sociology and philosophy and is considered one of the founders of social psychology. His ideas about the mind and self led to the creation of the symbolic interactionist school of sociology (Desilva, 2006). Talcott Edgar…

What is the difference between Mill’s qualitative hedonism and Bentham’s quantitative hedonism? Which is more plausible as a theory of well-being? Hedonism is the idea that well-being of people comes about through pleasure. Pure hedonism is the thought that it arises through and only through pleasure and both Bentham and Mill advocate different approaches for…

The statement “I think. therefore I am” lays the basis for Rene Descartes’ statement in the Meditations. To understand this look. one must set themselves in Descartes’ topographic point. He started off seeking to calculate what he can cognize with certainty. He examined a big organic structure of cognition and figured out that he can…

Martin Buber’s I and Thou We all human beings are born social animals and owe our existence in a certain bond of relationship to each other and to God. This is an essence of our life. Generally, our perception towards the world is towards the materialistic objectification of each existence and has set certain parameters…

I believe that the meaning of life is to explore in order to find our truths and being able to learn from them. As we continue to live, we tend to long for the truth as we are all curious of our lives and the world around it. In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, he…

The powers of perception Robbins, Judge, Adenoidal and Rood (2009) define perception as a process by which individuals organism and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment. In other words, perception is the way we “see” the world not in terms of our visual sense of sight, but in terms…

The visual imagery present in this composition is very detailed and conceals hidden messages through metaphors, that in general are negative a nd nihilistic. The speaker also utilizes personification and other forms of figurative language to display the grim reality of impermanence. In the wake of this idea of impermanence the speak er emphasizes the…

Plato was a Greek philosopher who wrote a book called the ‘Republic’. He lived from 428-347 BCE. In this book he described an analogy of a cave in order to explain his theory of the World of Ideas and the Natural World. Plato’s analogy of the cave is an explanation about ‘the truth’. The analogy…

            The cosmological argument has many variations of which only one will be explored in the following paragraphs. The argument is stated thus: the world (or universe) exists, and since it exists, there must have been a cause for its existence; therefore, some being, namely God, must have created it. The following will systemically explore…

Reflection is defined as “the process of creating and clarifying the meaning of experience in terms of self”(Boyd & Fales 1983, p101) and Reid (1993) defines reflection as “a process of reviewing an experience of practice in order to describe, analyse, evaluate and so inform learning about practice” (p305).Many authors recommend the use of a…