Essays on Human Nature

As Yoshida Kenko said “Ambition never comes to an end.” In the famous play Macbeth by Shakespeare, ambition is an imperative factor to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s sinful behaviors. Macbeth’s ambition was provoked by the three witches, but when he hesitated, Lady Macbeth reproach him…

Humans cannot be conditioned to not hate one another; hate and selfishness are a part of human nature. It is impossible to remove a certain emotion and simply replace it with another; it is impossible to quickly remove greed from one’s heart and replace it…

Ethics is the philosophy of how people make moral decisions and how they affect us as humans. The values that society holds help us determine our ethical stance and shape our own character traits and who we are as a person. Similar to virtue ethics…

People have a tendency to become extremely motivated in the pursuit of seeking out revenge on others for various reasons – from something mediocre to an extreme. Revenge is the forceful desire to inflict hurt or harm to another for a wrong suffered at their…

It seems that the question of who am I becoming is the hardest question to answer. I ought to ask myself this question every day. It is a problem that makes me evaluate my future, and what that entails to me. I divide my life…

It’s not at all a new Idea. Nor am I the first person to address this question. Who am I? Books and songs have been written, sermons preached, conversations had been led among tin pot philosophy hipsters in boutique coffee bars. There are three contexts…

“Who am I?” is an existential question that has perplexed the minds of all humans, from the least educated to the brightest minds humanity has ever witnessed. Even the most elite thinkers such as scientists, philosophers, and religious theorists haven’t been able to come close…

Upon reading this question, a lot of things crossed my mind. I got confused on what does the question implies, does it require scientific, biological answer? Or does it require intelectual and more critical answer. Being human is a complex structure on how a person…

Aristotle is a famous philosopher, whose students’ lecture notes were made into a book called “Politics”. In the first chapter (Book I), he argues that man is a political animal. What he means by this is that men are sociable beings that need community to…

The understanding of dignity of the human person is derived from the image and likeness of God Himself. We remains the summit of God’s creation and so mistreating an individual is not always morally correct. Christian anthropology helps us to broaden our knowledge on the…