What Does It Mean to Be Human Essay

What is more important to an individual: caring about the actions taken or what the consequences are? Imagine a world where one person is able to choose whether or not they want to transform the modern day society into a utopia, despite the deeds, either advantageous and detrimental, accomplished to get there. In this case, which is more important: the acts or the consequences? Deontology and virtue ethics are two ethical theories which primarily focus on the actions of a situation rather than…

Peter Kreeft argues that anyone who is not interested in philosophy is not human. This seems like a bizarre claim to make but through this essay I plan to explain why this claim may actually be true. I also will go through Kreeft’s arguments and explain why one argument that he presents is the premise to another. Kreeft’s first argument is that any university that considers themselves a school of liberal arts, but does not require philosophy or theology in their core curriculum, is not serious…

exclusively good. What separates the gods from humans is their access to wisdom and their use of it for good. Through these beliefs, he justifies his lifelong mission to teach those around him that human wisdom is nonexistent and in order to truly honor the gods, one must put aside pretensions…

Human beings are thinking creatures but they are more than that. They live their lives with different memories and experiences to guide them along the way. To prove that a person knows whom they are by proving that they think is nonsensical. Within Descartes’s meditation is the nature of humans will be shown through the thinking thing or cogito but this is not accurate at all because humans are more complex beings than just thinking things. First, I will demonstrate what the second meditation,…

a person who seems to have tattered clothing, an unbathed demeanor, holding a sign that says “Anything Helps”. Does one have a moral obligation to help this person, or is it out of our scope of moral obligation? This difference between moral obligation differs between Utilitarianism and the Kantian approach. According to the Utilitarian theory of moral obligation, their duty is to do what will bring the most good and resolve the most amount of pain. Simply put, whatever would bring the most…

Does free will exist? As humans came to enlightenment, the concept of free will concerned many philosophers’ thoughts, especially in philosophy of religion. Many came to question, whether humans have free will or they just do what needs to be done based on God’s plan. Therefore, many philosophers assume that the meaning of free will is the ability to choose to do something with one’s desire or to be free to choose. Moreover, people have different minds and different views about the idea of free…

whether it should be legal or illegal and under what circumstances. Jeremy Bentham’s Ideas about utilitarianism and the greatest pleasure for the greatest number of people and John Rawls’ fairness could be used to answer whether it is morally and legally permissible to have an abortion. Before we can debate about whether…

ideas are innate. What this means is that we have all truths already in our minds from birth, and we do not need to take in any information from the outside world to know what is truth. In his book Meditations on First Philosophy Descartes tries to prove that…

happiness, men should engage in activities that are distinct to humans.…

Discussing what is the image of God in humanity is a very complicated topic. The reason why it is complicated is because the Bible never clearly mentions what exactly does it mean to be created in the image of God. As a result, all people can do is try their best to interpret what the Bible does say, and pray to God that he will bless those with divine revelation of what the scripture says. One of the people can try and see what the image of God refers to in mankind, is by comparing man to other…