The Inferno of Dante, by Robert Pinsky is a new verse translation of Dante Aligheri’s Divine Comedy. Dante Aligheri, born in 1265, was a major Italian poet of the late middle ages who resided in Florence as a politician and was later exiled in 1301…
Essays on Philosophical Concept
The world is filled with many different words, some harder to define than others. One of these difficult words is considered by many to be evil. Is there an inherent source of good and absolute evil? If so, where do these two concepts come from?…
‘Dr Faustus’ is introduced as a very intelligent man who as a scholar appears at first glance to know everything. However, he is bored with the acknowledged boundaries of learning in terms of medicine, law and religion, and he wants to know more, in particular…
Throughout its history, the eye has been called the noblest of the senses and has been epistemologically privileged and other senses thrown into the background. Despite in Greek culture, it was conceived as a prerequisite of wisdom, in other words, as a “vision”; in the…
Hundreds of years have passed since people started to ask, “What is love?” Several individuals have already tried and contributed their answers to the discussion regarding its true meaning. A lot of works has been done and published on this subject, but it seems…
Each location has its very own distinctive characteristics. Romans interpreted “genius loci” as a spirit of a place space. It uses “locations as distinctive atmosphere” . Phenomenology was a significant development in Philosophy worked upon broadly by Edmund Husserl in the 19th century. Phenomenology as…
As an architect or designer, we have responsibilities to make a sense of comfort and memorable experience through space. Designing a space is also about recognition of memory that inspires us to create spatial recognition from the past/nostalgia scenes that also enrich our present (Bastea…
In our daily life, we constantly evaluate the likelihood of possible future events in order to take decisions under uncertainty. However, we do not process the obtainable evidence in an objective and strictly realistic manner. Indeed, our reasoning is inherently subjective and contains systematic biases….
Olmen (2018) defined semantics as the field of linguistics concerned with the study of meaning. With the knowledge of semantics, we can apply suitable words, phrases and sentences in different contexts that bring about meaningful communication. In the recent SNC-Lavalin affair, Financial Post reported that…
Whether the truth is twisted, or certain details are intentionally withheld; everybody lies at some point in their life. During early childhood, parents instill in their children that lying is wrong and that they should never lie, or no one will believe them when they…
Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury was born on April 5th, 1588 in Westport, Wiltshire and lived in a time of great disruption. Hobbes was a key figure during the Enlightenment period and is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. He was…
Throughout John Steinbeck’s novel, “East of Eden,” forces of good and evil were represented through physical forms. The characters in the novel shared similarities with important figures in the bible and rehashed the stories and events that occurred in famous tellings of Christianity. Readers delved…
The most attractive philosophical theory discussed in class so far is relativism. Like any philosophical thought, there are flaws within its confines. Even with the numerous circumstances that relativism could fail, the pros for the theory far outweighs the negative aspects. All countries around the…
Lorraine Hansberry, a black poet and playwright, once said in a speech, “It grows out of a thought of mine, as I study history, that virtually all of us are what circumstances allow us to be and that it really doesn’t matter whether you are…
Many philosophers have disputed the motivations and reasons as to why we should follow moral norms, perhaps for religious reasons or to fit into society. For me, I believe simply that by following moral norms I will treat others as I would want to be…
