Essays on Metaphysics Page 2

Many people watch soap operas because they find them enjoyable and realistic. Other points of view are quite the opposite. Some people believe that such sort of films can be very dangerous and unhealthy for one?s personality because they demonstrate false life values. I suppose that soap operas are low-quality products of film industry. They…

There are many different forms in which courage can manifest. It can be seen when individuals stand up for their beliefs, overcome harrowing experiences, or risk their own well-being to protect others. The mentality of taking action and ignoring fear serves as a catalyst for the judgments that await. Having the courage to conquer fear…

I chose to compare two different sitcoms. Leave it to Beaver and Raising Hope. Raising Hope is a modern sitcom about a 25 year old man, Jimmy Chance, who got a serial killer pregnant during a one night stand. The serial killer gave birth to their daughter before being executed in jail, leaving Jimmy as…

Both Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche are seminal figures in the annals of Western philosophy.  While Plato created the foundation for much of what was to follow, Nietzsche helped shape modern philosophy.  The lofty ideals of each philosopher, as well as their oftentimes ruthless way of presenting them have made each man deep admiration, but also…

            Atlas Shrugged, written by Ayn Rand is a novel on the subject of human action on a grand scale.  The author cleverly connects physical actions to essential values.  Even though in this romantic novel, portrait of the mind and analysis are also discussed, the author’s main point lies with the subject of human action. …

They say a gentleman is hard to find. They wonder if there is such a thing as a gentleman these days. They say those gentlemen they once knew have perished over the time. Well, I don’t really think so. In fact, I really disagree with them. In this present time, this very moment, still, thousands…

“God is Dead!” Nietzsche wrote.  He also asked “Where is God gone?”  The metaphorical madman of Nietsche exclaimed, “I mean to tell you! We have killed him, you and I! We are all his murderers! “  “But how have we done it?” Nietzsche also wrote,  “How were we able to drink up the sea? Who…

How Larkin perceives his own and our collective process of aging and the subsequent inevitability of death in ‘The Old Fools’ and ‘Ambulances’ In ‘The Old Fools’, Larkin discusses the gradual decline of life in old age, emphasizing the loss of dignity as the initial aspect that diminishes. He marvels at how the elderly are…

In Plato’s “An Argument for Dualism from ‘Alcibiades I,’” he discusses the idea that man is one of three things: soul, body, or both together forming a whole. In his dialogue between Socrates and Alcibiades, Plato argues that neither the body, nor the union of soul and body is man. This leads him to claim…

Since all animals, including humans, evolved from nonliving matter, a Secular Humanist sees mankind as “a more pesticides animal” (Wider and Guttering, 2013). In the eyes of a Secular Humanist, man has as much worth as an animal. For a Secular Humanist, the Question of Purpose is best summarized in the Preface of the Humanist…