Philosophy Essays

Sophocles’ Oedipus is an impeccable personification of Aristotle’s concept of a tragic hero. Per Aristotle’s idea of a tragic hero, Oedipus possessed the qualities of a tragic hero while the story reflected the rubrics that the tragic hero need to undergo. Below is a review of Aristotle’s criteria of a …

Introduction The gap between the rich and the poor in the world has continued to increase with no solution at sight.  In rich and poor nations, the difference between the rich and the poor is still widening despite various efforts aimed at reducing the gap. The wealth nations continue to …

A reference group is a group which serves as a framework, benchmark or a standard of comparison for assessing or shaping behavior and other sociological characteristics of people.  (Corbetta and Patrick 2003) Reference groups are deemed as models that people emulate in their activities and decision making which they apply …

In XX century, France gave us such great authors as Saint-Exupery, Sartre and Camus. Sartre considered Camus as the successor of ancient breed of moralists whose creativity is the most original line of the French literature. In addition, if Camus is the bright person of the French literature, his most …

In the Euthyphro by Plato, Socrates and Euthyphro debate the concept of piety and how it relates to the common man. Piety, or justice, is a topic that has challenged men since the beginning of time, as it is subjective to many outside forces including personal beliefs, culture and ethics. …

Existentialism is the thought that reality has no meaning or purpose, and that this is something man must come to terms with through his life until he faces death. The pursuit of meaning is a prevalent theme in the work of Franz Kafka, especially so in his parable “Before the …

In Ancient Greece, Epicurean philosophy and the philosophy of stoicism were popular movements. Popularity, however, is where the similarity between the two ends. Epicurean philosophy generally involved a minimalist approach to the acquisition of material things. In a way, Epicurean philosophy was heavily related to hedonism, although the Epicurean ideal …

Oliver Twist is a novel teeming with many closely interrelated ideas. There is a preoccupation with the miseries of poverty and the spread of its degrading effects through society. With poverty comes hunger, along with Dickens’s notion that a misguided approach to the issues of poverty and homelessness brings many …

Introduction During the industrial revolution, an exodus of people moving to the city became a trend that made cities a center of urbanization.  With the congestion and pollution of cities buoyed up advancing transportation technology, many people later moved out of the cities to seek for a more peaceful and …

Introduction Ethics is referred to the application of morals to human conduct. It can be applied to any aspect of the government policies or programmes to make it more adaptable to all sections of the society. It has been noticed that in the civilised society, moral and religious reasons for …