Philosophy Essays

“If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur in this life” and “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will …

Ray Bradbury’s vision of the future is not very optimistic and is not a world I would like to live in. In Guy Montag’s world, compared to ours, technology has advanced but it hasn’t made an improvement in life. One of the big social changes in Bradbury’s vision is the …

The Great Gatsby’s extensive and frequent references to illusion and reality mirri Fitzgerald’s concerns. Illusion, by dictionary definition, is ‘The condition of being deceived by a false perception or belief’, the opposite of reality which is ‘The totality of all things possessing actuality, existence, or essence’. These were extremely important …

Yeats is known as an influential poet of the 20th century. His love and affection for Ireland and his people can be seen in many of his poems. In “To Ireland in the coming times” Yeats passion for Ireland and the revolution against Britain at the time can be seen …

In both Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism, the authors give several strong, well structured arguments on the composition of ethics. Largely, their works help to draw focus to two different explanations of what makes an action morally just as opposed to morally …

Men often speak of virtue without using the word but saying instead ”the quality of life” or ”the great society” or ”ethical” or even ”square’ ‘. But do we know what virtue is? And what virtuoso is? What steps does Machiavelli takes in order to explain virtue and virtuoso? What …

The Enlightenment which was during the seventeenth and eighteenth century was a time that helped shape the capitalistic, democratic world we live in today. The Enlightenment was also called the Age of Reason because that period was a time of high intellect and bright new ideas. Philosophers would meet to …

Science fiction is the genre of the books I selected, which are ‘The Chrysalids’ and ‘The Time Machine’. The titles tell a great deal about the two books, for instance they suggest the books are science fiction. The title ‘The Time Machine’ says a lot about the whole novel, as …

Some time ago in America an extraordinary film on a few levels was created. Its length and its immaculate consideration regarding period detail give it the vibe of an epic. Once upon a time in America analysis helps to understand that be that as it may, at its heart, it …

Man is a rational being. He is naturally endowed to think and to reflect on his thinking process. He is, in a sense, the crowning glory of the entire creation because it is through his rationality that he does not only know and conceive reality, but create and appreciate beauty …