Essays on Philosophers

The government is made up of both legal and political bodies that control the relationship among the members of the community as well as between the society and members of the outside world. This paper will describe various forms of bad and good governments that…

Kant project consists in making explicit the limits of human knowledge in general and this is made explicit in the Transcendental Dialectic section of the Critique of Pure Reason in particular. To make sense of this we have to look at his project as a…

Pliny the Elder affected the world in many many ways. With everything that he did I think he deserves the “Thinkers” award. Welcome to this journey while you learn about how he impacted the world and how that led him to a wonderful success. Pliny…

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) was a Soviet philosopher and literary critic by craft and revolutionary by virtue. Although Clark and Holquist (1984) provide a detailed bibliography for Bakhtin (see also Hill 1986; Dentith 1995), his persistence to democratically represent linguistic diversity during Stalinist authoritarian rule…

Imagine this, you stand at the very edge of a beach. You can feel the sun warming your shoulders, the wind hums softly, and the ocean is so clear a school of fish is visible dancing in the waters. You take a step forward letting…

Watching a movie can sound like a typical and normal activity nowadays. Naturally, families and people spend more time selecting the film to see that thinking about the complex meaning that this entails. In order to emerge ourselves in the film’s situation, the world of…

Aristotle is known as the father of Realism. To understand fully his work, we should at least have a glimpse of his life in his early days. He was born in 384 B.C.E. in Stagira, Greece. He is a son of a physician at court…

The idea that actions/consequences are morally right only if and because they produce the greatest good was created by a man named John Stuart Mill. This ethical theory is called utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism since it does not judge the actions of…

Life is something that seems to start and end simultaneously in one’s teens, as the optimism of your childhood comes clashing with the newfound anxieties of the future. And this is inevitable- teenagers nowadays are forced to lose their individuality in order to fit into…

Art is something that has been known to evoke different emotions from each and every person, how one deals with these emotions though, is up to them. The way we should deal with these emotions evoked, and how we should treat artists who devote their…