Essays on Personal Philosophy

The purpose of this paper is to bring forth examples of the moral values and philosophies I hold and use to guide my decision making skills. I examine the self-determining impacts of my personal moral philosophy on Ethical Decision Making. Agreed that Ethical Decision Making…

A life well lived is one where you have no regrets, when you can wake up and be proud of what you did yesterday. However in the same mind, you can admit to your mistakes and put your best foot forward to fix them. This…

Dwelling, to dwell, comes from the Old English dwellan, meaning to wander, to linger, to tarry, also to lead or go astray. It is equal to unfolding and abandonment. We inhabit our estrangement. Not inhabitation and settlement, but abandonment: leaving, leave-taking. Habitāre has two Latin…

We face a lot of challenges in life. Obstacles that sometimes are hard to overcome. They can be painful, while others can be a life changer, an obstacle that can brighten someone’s future and change them for the better. The challenges that I experienced has…

“Philosophy, a way of thinking about the world, the universe, and society. It works by asking very basic questions about the nature of human thought, the nature of the universe, and the connections between them” (Socrates). Thomas Nagel, one of the most influential philosophers of…

“It is her fault” – an expression proliferated far too much in social, economic, and political disputes. Use of this phrase has become a common trend in modern Western society. Specifically, increasing instances of fault have been placed on women, in heterosexual relationships, for the…

The Latin word of Selfishness is “attenta philautia” which means the quality to be selfish or concentrating on one’s own advantages, assets, and power. It is like you cannot return the value of other people’s value. This is an ethical issue because if one misidentifies…

Throughout my childhood, I read a lot of fiction books. Some intrigued me much more than others; but I could never work out why. I eventually realized that the novels I found most engaging, such as Murakami’s’ were, at their core, asking fundamental questions about…

This school of thought arose as a comeback to structuralism. It aims at the study of consciousness. It lays stress on function rather than structure of consciousness. Functionalism conjointly includes the approach by which human beings adapt to their environment. William James William James is…

You may not be able to tell from this page, but I am graced with an extremely pale skin tone. My mom jokes that sometimes I look like I have never seen the sun. Nonetheless, some of my favorite memories consist of picnicking, hiking, and…