Essays on Personal Philosophy

Aristotle Aristotle was an ancient greek philosopher, and is credited for inventing the systems that became the structure for Christian Scholasticism and medieval Islamic philosophy. Tutored Alexander The Great and was tremendously influential in the Middle Ages ( ¨Aristotle¨). His definition of a Tragedy was…

While it may sound counterintuitive at first, mathematics proved that if there is unanimous evidence supporting a hypothesis, it may actually reduce the soundness of the hypothesis.Imagine if you were the judge of a court case, where all the evidence suggested that the suspect had…

Internal Attribution This is the process of assigning the cause of behaviour to some internal characteristic, rather than to outside forces. When we explain the behaviour of others we look for enduring internal attributions, such as personality traits, for example, unable to train properly because…

Consider a football player who may have a ‘short fuse’ which often leads to rash actions. The same player will not show that behaviour all the time and only does so when made to react to psychological behaviour triggers. The player becomes aggressive and snaps…

To be a “Stoic,” at least in the traditional sense, meant that you had to abide by a set of rules and way of life, outlined by philosophers like Zeno of Citium and Persaeus. According to Merriam Webster, a Stoic was “a member of a…

Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher known for his work in mathematical logic. He had a life that was highly controversial to the British government he lived with, and faced many hardships brought on by his beliefs. Russell spent the 97 years of his life…

All-perfect being means God has to exist This is the classic ontological argument. It was first articulated in 1070 by St. Anselm, who argued that because we have a conception of an all-perfect being which he defined as “that than which nothing greater can be…

Niccolò Machiavelli (1532) uses the portrayal of Cesare Borgia’s career to teach readers about establishing new principalities through others’ arms and fortune, which are gained with little to no trouble but are maintained with great difficulty. Borgia gained land through his father, Pope Alexander VI,…

The subjects of Politics, Philosophy and Economics are fundamental to providing the foundation to a prosperous society. Whilst philosophy creates the ideologies which drive the ideas behind the economic reallocation of resources, politics manages and controls the way in which these resources can be redistributed…

The Chinese have an idea called the Four Pillars of Destiny which depicts the four parts which make human destiny. Also, our great companions over the lake in Europe have an aggregate group of laws, usually known as the Three Pillars of European Union, portraying…