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Throughout my entire life, I have been part of a family deeply committed to Roman Catholicism. Both of my parents were devout followers of God and the Catholic Church. This upbringing led me to engage in various religious practices from an early age. Every week, we would gather for mass on Sundays, where I was…

            Language has always been an important instrument in facilitating communication among individuals. At the same time, it helps bridge out gaps among people by actively creating standards to interact and relate with one another. As a language educator, it remains to be my responsibility and ultimate purpose to educate and create opportunities for students…

            Contrary to popular belief, Nietzsche was of a very religious background. He was the son of a Lutheran minister. In fact, both his grandfathers had been ministers and he was expected to become one also if he did not break off with Christianity. Disagreements exist between scholars on the exact reasons and date why…

Abstraction: The punishments or penalties in the kingdom of corrections reflect the doctrines and morals of civilizations and the authorities that sanction execution. Historically, corrections were grounded in “retribution and punishment- and the uglier the better”; “punishments were public occasions and street eyeglasses filled with humiliation” (Esperian, 2010). Then in the nineteenth century, there was…

Chinese philosophy includes three major schools of thought, which have had the greatest impact on Chinese culture: Taoism, Legalism, and Confucianism. Lao Tze, the father of Taoism, believed that the human is basically good. His views followed that of morality and humanistic laws. Legend holds that he was conceived while his mother glimpsed at a…

In the age of smartphones, social media, and constant connectivity, it may seem strange that a philosophy developed more than two thousand years ago in Ancient Greece has become increasingly relevant. Yet Stoicism, a school of thought founded by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BCE, has found a renewed audience in the…

As humans, one of the most basic and deeply emotional feelings we share is a discomfort known as thinking-related disagreement. Thinking-related disagreement is when a person at the same time holds two or more competing or disagreeing beliefs or attitudes. Disagreement is the mental pain that is caused when these attitudes or actions conflict. In…

Many people would ask this question to themselves. They would try to internalize the question and begin to answer based from the things that would grasp into their mind. Some would start from simple things until they would come to the point thinking of complex things and everything becomes dubitable as Rene Descartes says in…

Post-positivism is a philosophical position that aims to address certain assumptions made by positivism. According to this perspective, human knowledge is not grounded in indisputable principles, but rather emerges from a combination of various human speculations (Groff, 2004). Post-positivism holds that knowledge is conjectural and open to further inquiry. By constantly examining and improving existing…

My parents have been married for 25 years and have grown together and individually to strengthen their relationship to eventually set up a religion based home and to raise their three children with strong and good morals. Before all of that they have to know every aspect of each other so they can be a…