In The Clouds, Aristophanes portrays Socrates as a foolish philosopher. However, Plato depicts him as a thoughtful one in The Republic. Just and Unjust speeches argue over the best way to teach Pheidippides in The Thinkery. In the second play, …
Category: Essays on Philosophy
Silent Spring is a book that Rachel Carson wrote on “ecological Science”. It was published in 1962 by Houghton Mifflin. It described the negative effects of uncontrolled pesticide use on nature.
The book was translated into more than 30 languages. …
The saviour sibling is a child who was created to donate body parts compatible with Human leukocyte Antigen (HLA), in order to save an older sibling’s life. It’s usually umbilical-cord blood used for an older sibling’s bone marrow. IVF allows …
This essay is a discussion of Jacques Derridas’ concepts about the ‘traits’ of drawing. Jacques Derrida offers a detailed reading of a large collection of images, examining issues such as the faculties for sight, the lack of vision, the self-representation …
The counterclaim in “Lifeboat Ethics – the Case Against Helping the Poor”, is what I find unreasonable. The argument’s counterclaim is that government resources are limited and therefore it should not assist the poor. It’s not rational. I believe the …
Is badness the result of a morally void choice? Hannah Arendt grew up in Hanover. She was a prolific author of books such as Eichmann’s Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil. She fled Nazi Germany to France in …
Table of Contents
Definition of innate ideas
Descartes views on the inborn ideas of human nature
Locke’s views on human nature and innate ideas
Comparative analysis of Descartes’ and Locke’s philosophy on inborn ideas
In conclusion
Over the years, philosophers …
“Clouds are a part of my life that come from other days, not to bring rain or storms but to add colour to my sunset skies.” – Rabindranath Tabore, Stray Birds 1916
Humans have always sought fulfillment since infancy. To …
Plato opens his famous cave metaphor with the phrase “like that:”. Plato is emphasizing the fact that the passage can be read as both a metaphorical description and a symbolic representation (VII.514). He also insists that the “imagine” command must …
Volkswagen Fined $1.17 billion in Germany for Emissions-Cheating Scam Many companies have been hurt by their leaders’ inability to show goodwill and integrity. This paper examines Volkswagen’s fined $1.17 billion in Germany for its Emissions-Cheating Scandal. The article comes from …