"What's the dirtiest thing there is?" As proposed by a character in Ghoulding's Lord of the Flies, perhaps no one can faithfully answer this question quite as well as Ghoulding himself. In Lord of the Flies, Ghoulding answers this question through his symbolic story of human conflict. The deeper m...
According to the dictionary, religion is a noun defined as the quest for the values of the ideal life. The above definition is vast and general, allowing people from all cultures to interrupt it differently. There is not a single path to follow to lead an ideal life, only your personal beliefs and...
In the early Indo/Aryan teachings, doing one's duties and staying in line, so to speak, were required and made up that person's dharma. ... Collectively, all humans search for meaning and reasoning behind the enormous puzzle that is life. ...
Evil is present throughout the world in many different forms. Wars, torture, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and many other evil atrocities are an every day occurrence in some parts of the world. It would seem that the world cannot escape from evil and the problem of suffering will always exis...
How do you feel about cloning? Do you believe it is right? Does it go against your religious beliefs? These are just a few of the questions society is asking of itself these days. As cloning transforms from a fantasy to a reality, many ethical questions are brought into the picture. Cloning which...
In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley simultaneously spins both a gripping horror story and an intense line of philosophical questioning - specifically, what it means to be human. ... " The creature at this point has clearly developed a firm grasp of his human emotional needs, desperately reasoning and threatening his maker in order to ensure his misery is ended. ...
No entity wants their line of genes, which is essentially the essence of their being to conclude, so they do everything in their power to successfully attempt to transfer their essence to the generation to come, in order for them to live on in a sense. ... This line of reasoning actually does make some kind of sense. ...
These are: Consciousness of objects and events around us and also within us we should have the ability to feel pain: Reasoning, the ability to solve new and complex problems Be able to Self-motivate activity Be able to communicate Be aware of self-concepts and self-awareness, Because a foetus doesn't hold these five characters, it is not entitled to full moral status, and can be terminated during any stage of pregnancy. ...
For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...
