Essays on Philosophy

When you come from a different culture, especially when you are so attached to that culture, it becomes very difficult to have to go against your usual cultural ways. Trying to please your family and yourself can even become a challenge, when the two of you want alternative things, and have such contrasting point of...

The role of happiness in solving moral problems has been a topic argued by many philosophers. They have sought to understand whether it is the consequences or the motives of actions that truly matter in morality. Jeremy Bentham and Immanuel Kant both have demonstrated their own views in regards to this concept. Each philosopher follows...

Introduction I decided to choose this topic because I want to investigate and learn about the way people are treating animals, and what is being done to prevent abuse from happening. There are so many poor blameless creatures getting hurt, shot, dying in pain all around the world, but surely there is a good part...

The debate between natural law and legal positivism is a debate that has been at the core of legal and ethical theory for quite some time. The purpose of this essay is to discuss whether or not critical legal theories like Marxism, feminism, CLS, postmodernism and critical ethical theories like Postmodernist ethics, provide more support...

This essay will examine the visions of the future in terms of AI progression along with technological development and its influence on the broadly defined creative practice. However, I believe that it is crucial to investigate the social aspects of possible changes that the future may carry in order to understand the whole environment in...

The issues of colonialism and imperialism are not new to international law but have appeared with varying degrees of prominence in legal discussions and practices related to the development of this area of the law over many years. International law has continued to facilitate global inequality in recent years for this reason. There are many...

In this world, every person’s reality represents their own perspective. There is a reality that is not influenced by personal feelings and opinions, and there is the “truth” that is made by human emotion and experience. Truth is often knowingly or unknowingly obscured by people who pursue results that are different from unpleasant reality. Life...

This essay will discuss whether it was ethical or not for J.K. Rowling to keep Johnny Depp in her movie Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald after his domestic violence allegations surfaced. Using the Potter Box method we will be able to properly analyze the case. The Potter Box consists of four steps that help...

“The emphasis must not be on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.” (Ginsburg). In today’s society, abortion is a highly diverse and debated topic in politics and religion. This paper will show how Christianity interprets and handles the moral dilemma of abortion in today’s society versus how it...

The pursuit of happiness has often been tied to thoughtful contemplation. However, thoughtful contemplation is hard to define. Published in 1959 and given as a memorial address for German Composer Conradin Kreutzer, Martin Heidegger’s Discourse on Thinking introduces the difference between meditative thinking and calculative thinking. Meditative thinking is contemplative thinking, which makes humans unique....