Causality

Most to all teens can’t wait until the day they turn sixteen. They gain more freedom, space, and best of all, being able to drive. It gives them the ability to go where they want and by themselves, without the shadowing of their parent. Although seemingly non-dangerous, some teenagers may take advantage of this privilege, which proves a significant point that the driving age should be raised. The brain of a sixteen-year-old is simply not fully capable of comprehending the dangers of the road…

The article Fetal Death and Reduced Birth Rates Associated with Exposure to Lead-Contaminated Drinking Water by Marc Edwards discusses some incidents regarding lead exposure, along with the correlation between this complication and fetal death, as well as miscarriages. At first glance the observation and claims being shown seem constructed with specific diction concerning a science, more precisely, ecological science. Throughout Edwards’s article, the claims presented are accompanied with the…

Your name sake is possibly on the line, and you have to make a huge decision. You have to choose between what you want to do or what everyone else wants you to do. Both choices will have different outcomes, but you have to face your situation with your mind. In Shooting an Elephant, The background of George Orwell and the pressure of the community around him causes questionable actions from Orwell. Was he just trying to save his name sake for the pleasure of the community? The first cause and…

There are many, many cons in the life of having curly hair, some worst than others that can stress you out. Although, I am not here telling you this to scare you about curly hair. I am here to inform you on the cons of curly hair. One thing you should definitely be cautious about curly hair is, it can be a beast, you never know what it will do. Another thing is, curly hair can make you sweat in the summer, so make sure you have a ponytail. Moving on, curly hair is very expensive because you are…

Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is one of literature's most relatable characters in history. Everyone his age and older from even the most diverse backgrounds can identify with his views and attitude toward the world. He is a troubled adolescent trying to get through life. Although Holden is an extremely intelligent sensitive young individual, he is very cynical and judgmental and always finds the negativity in the world around him. This causes many…

Pascal: Pascal’s Wager essentially revolves around the fact that betting on God’s existence is the best bet that one can make.This is because if one wagers on God’s existence and God doesn’t exist, they lose nothing. However, if he does exist, then the can potentially gain entrance into Heaven which is the ultimate reward. Therefore, betting on God’s existence is the best bet that one can possibly make. Pascal’s Wager excludes the important virtues that support Christianity and serves as a…

Liberty and necessity in the realm of human actions can be either moral or physical. Liberty is connected with free will, and necessity is associated with determinism. Kames believes that if people thought that all of their actions were determined, it would affect their free will (morality). Naturally, we believe that we have the free will to make choices. Kames feels as if God instilled a natural belief that free will was needed for making moral choices. He reconciles that both moral and…

3. Advice In their Study, Appiah and Bosiwah (2015) found that most of the threats they have take the form of advice. They conclude that "a threat is born out of an advice" (P.15). In conditional threats, though the speaker threatens the target to do something harmful to him, he also advises the target how to avoid that harmful action by complying to the condition provided. Thus the speaker advises the target to do something to avoid the threatened action. They see that the only difference…

In the unit “States of Consciousness”, we discussed the concept of conscious will, and whether our everyday actions are determined by the choosing of our own free will, or if our conscious experience in making choices is merely a delusion of grandeur. It’s difficult to distinguish between voluntary and involuntary actions, especially if we are unaware of the extent to which we have free will. The idea is that we are already in motion of preparing for action before we even realize or actively…

Free Will is the concept refers to the ability of humans to choose to act independently and make decisions. Do we has free will? Or our decisions entirely is a product of chemistry, physics and genetics. In everyday life it seems we are free. We want to go, standing, lying, sitting, or do anything that, all due to our decision, which is due to our wills. But sometimes we seem to see is not. Even for ourselves sometimes, very often, and we do not decide anything at all. I agree with Baron…